Not Your Standard Rice Cakes
This recipe makes use of leftover risotto to fry up crispy-creamy risotto cakes, bursting with oozing mozzarella cheese and accompanied with a flavorful yogurt-based dip.
Tag Archives: porcini
Paydirt
Tucking golden beets into a creamy porcini mushroom risotto with sage-buttered salmon was an excellent way to acclimate my palate to their earthy flavor.
Filling in the Gaps
This is a summary post overviewing the meals and baked goods I made over the holidays, concluding with the highlight of my father making ebelskivers.
Splurging, Two Ways
This special-occasion meal is composed of porcini-crusted filet mignon, pan-roasted and topped with gorgonzola garlic butter. The remaining steak was then transformed into sandwiches on homemade potato rolls (made from leftover chard-laced mashers), smeared with…
Spanish Rice with Mushrooms, Shrimp and Artichokes
The August 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was a Spanish rice dish related to paella, featuring cuttlefish, mushrooms and artichokes. My pantry-friendly variation used dried porcini mushrooms and shrimp.
Bay Scallop Risotto
A straightforward risotto flavored with dried porcini mushrooms and dotted with tender bay scallops.
Bar-lotsa Leftovers
An excellent way to use up leftover turkey and stock, this dish puts a twist on risotto by using the nuttier pearl barley in place of rice.
Cleaning Out the Fridge
A miscellany of dishes geared toward cleaning out the fridge: leftover bread, excess cream, and shriveling vegetables can turn into some pretty tasty meals!
Three Little Piggies
My first encounter with fresh porcini mushrooms ended in an Italian feast.
Making Inroads
Pork tenderloins stuffed with a savory mixture of mushrooms and leeks, and served with a port reduction and tangy goat cheese mashed potatoes.
Pasta Trio
In sifting through puppy pictures we’ve taken in the past month, I happened back across a few weeknight pasta dishes that I’ve made, and which we were pretty pleased with. It hardly seems fair to…
Braised Pork Chops with Tomatoes, Cream, and Porcini
This was the second time we’ve made these pork chops and they are really luscious. They do best with bone-in chops, as those stay moist longer than the boneless ones. We’ve served this with a…
Food Epiphanies of 2006: A Retrospective
Mushrooms I have always disliked mushrooms. I thought it was their flavor, and indeed that took some getting used to, but I realized this year that my real aversion to mushrooms was to their texture.…
Thanksgiving Dinner 2006 Recap
An outline of our Thanksgiving meal for 2006, complete from mushroom bisque for lunch to pumpkin chiffon pie for dessert.