Monday, February 17, 2020

Wild Mushroom Sauce

1/3 cup dried Porcini mushrooms ( or Morels)
1 cup warm water
2 shallots, minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 T olive oil
2 C dry white wine
2 cans condensed chicken broth
2 T tarragon
1 T chervil
1 T Dijon mustard
pinch of thyme, if possible
pinch of ground rosemary, if possible
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 pint heavy cream

Soak wild mushrooms in warm water for 1/2 hour. Cover and refrigerated the night before making sauce. ( if in a hurry, mushrooms may be soaked and unrefrigerated 1/2 hour before making sauce.
Remove mushrooms from liquid, saving liquid. Finely chop mushrooms.
In a large frying pan, add olive oil, shallots garlic and mushrooms. Sauce over medium high heat until shallots are lightly browned. Pour wine into pan to deglaze and reduce by 1/2 volume.

Add mushroom juice and chicken broth, then herbs, Worcestershire and mustard.
boil over high heat and reduce volume by 2/3. Then add heavy cream and continue to reduce until flavor is nicely concentrated, adding seasoning salt and more herbs as desired.

Sunday, February 16, 2020

2 Ingredient Nutella Brownies

Prep: 10 min
Cook: 35 min

Servings: 9
Calories: 208 kcal

Ingredients
4 large eggs
*1 cup Nutella
Powdered sugar, opt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line and 8x8 brownie pan with parchment paper; set aside.
Place gas in your mixer bowl and bat for 5-7 minutes or until eggs have tripled in size. This may take up to 10 minutes with a handheld mixer on high.
Heat Nutella in microwave for 60 seconds.
Remove and stir.
Slowlypuor a stream of warm Nutella over the eggs, beating until mixture is thoroughly combined.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with very few crumbs.
Remove and let completely cool before cutting.
Dust with powdered sugar. Cut into bars and serve.

* DO NOT put Nutella jar in microwave. Measure it out and microwave it in a Microwave safe bowl.