Rhapsodies

Well I decided to give that Mushroom Pastry recipe from Food Through The Pages. I wanted to try it again for several reasons.

Reason # 1 I had one sheet of puff pastry left over  in the freezer.

Reason # 2 I thought it might be better in smaller portions… and finally

Reason # 3 I couldn’t help wondering what it would taste like adding sausage to the mix.

Any way this batch came out really good. I don’t think the sausage made that much of a difference… In fact I think most of the improvements were due to a longer cooking time for the filling… or possibly from mixing shitake mushrooms with the usual criminis.

I also made a Mushroom Rissoto which came out equally well. I usually have very bad luck with risottos. No matter how long I cook them and how much liquid I add they come out kind of chewy. Happily this was an exception. Wit any luck I’ll be able to figure out what I did right.