Night of a Thousand Mushrooms

Our friends Melissa and Erik came over for dinner last night. Max cooked most of the afternoon preparing a real feast. I was the official prep cook - washing things,setting the table and entertaining Max. In the last few months we had eaten dinner at their place : Cafe de Fromage, and Erik is an amazing cook. He made multiple courses all with cheeses included. I think Max was truly blown away and was determined to create the same impression. Lucky Melissa and Lori! Melissa loves mushrooms, so Max made all these different mushroom dishes and one traditional German meal in celebration of the white asparagus festival. It smelled heavenly in the kitchen all day. And the meal was unbelievable. Good company, good food, good night!

Sign for the door.



Flowers from Melissa and Erik.



Prep time.




The meals eaten were as follows (in chronological order):

Wine: White Bordeaux and Chardonnay. Melissa and Erik brought two bottles with labels they had made. Just incredible! Max was totally fooled until they explained Erik had drawn them.



Grilled Oyster Mushrooms with Garlic infused olive oil, served with baked lavash bread.



Button mushrooms stuffed with a goat cheese, fennel, leek mix.



Grilled Polenta with a crimini mushroom ragu, drizzled with melted gorganzola.

[no picture available as I was a piggy during this portion of the meal]

White asparagus and baby new potatoes with a Frankfurt Green Sauce (cream based with dill and chopped egg)



For dessert: Vanilla ice cream with fresh raspberries and carmelized chopped almonds.