British Beef and Ale Pie

This is my tribute to my recent trip to London. I had something similar in a small pub, and it was my favorite meal in the grand ol’ city! The first time I made this I used cream of mushroom soup and 1 Tablespoon of beef boullion in place of the beefy mushroom soup.

Varna-Style Braised Chicken (Bulgarian Dish)

This is a popular Balkan chicken dish smothered in rich, herby, sherry tomato sauce with mushrooms that we love having at home. (Edited: moved garlic cloves and onions to include under “For the sauce” to coincide with procedure as spotted by KateL. No actual change to recipe has been made.)

Mushroom-Flavored Forcemeat Stuffing

From Ruth Van Waerebeek’s “Everybody Eats Well in Belgian Cookbook.” She uses it as the stuffing in her Christmas Turkey recipe, which I use on Thanksgiving. The stuffing takes a fair amount of prep (and those porcini mushrooms can be hard to find and expensive; I’ve started skipping them), but people absolutely love it. It’s got a rich, complex taste completely different from the traditional bread-and-herb stuffing. (I looked it up: Forcemeat comes from the French “farce,” to stuff. The forcemeat stuffing is more like a meatloaf.) This recipe is enough for a 12 to 14 pound turkey.

Mushroomed Afternoon

Where to find ingredients, if not in market: ***Lactarius deliciosus: In moss and perennial forests of pines, summer and autumn——————– ***Lycoperdon perlatum: In forests, on wood partly burrowed.—————- ***Hygrocybe punicea: In fields, above all of mountains, autumn———– ***Tricholoma portentosum: From October-December, hills, below spruce or pine trees —— ***INGREDIENTS AND QUANTITIES CAN BE CHANGED, NOT FIXED. ***To eat more, put 5 preps. To eat less, put 3 preps. HYGROCYBE PUNICEA CAN BE CHANGED FOR CLITOCYBE GEOTROPA ——————— TRICHOLOMA PORTENTOSUM CAN BE CHANGED FOR TRICHOLOMA ARGYRACEUM

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