{"id":2238,"date":"2008-02-04T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2008-02-04T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:33:45","slug":"scotch-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"Scotch Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made some grouper for dinner last night, and was going to serve it with a shittake mushroom risotto (my default side for fish). But, I changed my mind and went with a simple lentil stew - a version of this<\/a>, without the ham and potatoes and with about 1\/3 the tomatoes - instead of rice. But that left me with a handful of unpurposed shittakes. Since the lentil stew was going to be nice and hearty, I thought maybe they'd be good if I just saut\u00e9ed them in butter, and plopped them on top of the fish at the end. And so I chopped em up, along with a couple of plain white mushrooms I had lying around, dropped em into a little saut\u00e9 pan with a healthy chunk of butter, some sage, black pepper and a bit of salt. I let them cook down till they were nice and soft and buttery and yummy. <\/p>\n

But, next to the burner where the mushrooms were sizzling, sat the last little bit of a bottle of Bowmore 17 year<\/a>. Hmm... I applied my usual test: put the prospective ingredient above the cooking food and smell them together. A perfect fit! Just a tablespoon of whisky into the mushrooms, let them sizzle for a few minutes more. to get rid of the alcohol... maybe a little more butter. Ahh, totally awesome. The mushrooms, the peaty, smoky whisky, the butter, lentils, thyme, sage, Swiss chard.... mmm. Scotch mushrooms. Awesome. I highly recommend giving this a try - it'd be great with steak, too, I bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made some grouper for dinner last night, and was going to serve it with a shittake mushroom risotto (my default side for fish). But, I changed my mind and went with a simple lentil stew - a version of this, without the ham and potatoes and with about 1\/3 the tomatoes - instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}