a recipe for my BotherInLaw.

[ppfuf]

On another message board I read someone was wondering where the idea that G-d's angels envy mankind comes from. I think it's because we have cheese.

I've mentioned before how much pleasure I get from feeding non-SCA people medival recipes. 
 
Baked Mushrooms, adapted from Scully’s Early French Cookery, pp 271

Ingredients
3/4-1 pound fresh mushrooms whatever kind you like best
1/2 pound of brie (or other soft cheese)
3 Tbl olive oil (plus some for pan)
1/2 tesp salt
2 tesp ginger
1 tesp cinnamon
1/2 tesp fresh ground pepper
1/4 tesp ground cloves (I often omit this, or use a tiny pinch)
1 tesp sugar (I often omit this too)
4-6 Tbl grated parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400F. Gently oil bottom of clean baking dish (a 8x8 square or a pie pan does fine). Clean mushrooms and cut into bite size pieces if not already small. Evenly distribute mushrooms in pan.
If you wish, peel rind from Brie (I don’t bother). In a food processor, or in a bowl with a fork, mash up the brie with the oil, salt, and spices. Once it appears to be an ugly brown lump, drop spoonfuls of cheese mix evenly in the pan. Scrape up all the cheese mix from the bowl, you want every bit on the mushrooms. Cover mushrooms with tin foil or lid and place in hot oven for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven. Remove foil. Sprinkle with grated parmesan and return pan to oven uncovered for 10 minutes.
Eat while still hot.
You can also bake the mushroom-cheese mix in a pre-baked pie shell. I prefer to use more cheese in a 1:1 weight ratio with the mushrooms. I also sometimes forget and mix the grated parmesan into the brie and spices and have to use more for sprinkling. That’s good too.

Comments

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

If there is no cheese in heaven, I'm not going.

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

me either!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

You are positing a cheeseless heaven? I do not think such a thing could exist. The theory proposed was that angels have no bodies and do not have the pleasures we have. Like cheese.

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

That is ridiculous. If you were Catholic you would know Angels are made of cheese.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

I love this recipe. It's one of the reasons I started cooking medieval food.

[momstable.livejournal.com]

Oooo, I think I'll make this for my gamers on Thursday. Unless it might be too much richness with the recipe I got from gurdymonkey....

Maybe I'll make this one next week instead....

I thought...

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

"In heaven, there is no beer"

[the-cheese-lady.livejournal.com]

Yum. I'm making this for our January event. Does it give you that baked-on crust on the bottom of the pan?

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

My version is somewhat more generous with oil than Scully's so I don't get much crustyness unless I forget to cover the pan in the first baking cycle. It is good that way too, for people who like flavor of crisp, slightly burnt cheese. If you turn the oven to broil for the last 30sec/minute, you can get a nice crust on top and still be able to get it out of the pan.

Not just cheese...

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

We also have genitals!