Saturday, 8 September 2012

Cooking 101 - baked stuffed mushroom

Although i have read Pride and Prejudice at least 10 times, I am not that starry-eyed to be led to believe that men are attracted to confident, independent women.

I believe, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

I had spent most of my life working or studying hectically, with little time to cook.    So, my recipes are not very sophisticated, but the flip side is instructions are easy to follow.   I assure you that 9 times out of 10 the dishes are quite pleasant. 

Last week I baked some stuffed mushrooms.


Ingredients:
Giant mushroom
Mozzarella shreds
Bacon (with fat)
Garlic slices
Duck breast

Steps:
  1. You first cut the bacon into little pieces and fry them in a stick-resistant pan;  (Tips: you don't need to add oil before you put in the bacon.  Bacon is already very fatty.  Its fat will be rendered down when heated)
  2. Pre-heat the oven for 5 minutes;
  3. Put the fried bacon, garlic pieces and  Mozzarella shreds on the mushroom;  (Tips: Mozzarella cheese are easy to melt.  Plus, its taste is not too strong.)
  4. Put everything into the oven and bake them for 5 minutes;
  5. Sauté the duck breast with the bacon oil.  (Tips: this is to render down the fat in the duck breast)
  6. As the finishing, you can add some herbs / pepper to flavor the mushrooms up.  
Men are mostly carnivores.  A BBC news article confirmed this, "duck, veal and ham featured prominently on the male menu".    But feeding solely on meat is not good to health.  You serve the meat with some vegetables.  But usually your men leave the vegetables untouched.  To lure them to finish the vegetables, you need to sprinkle the magic bacon on the dish to make it "edible".  

2 comments:

Rosewhip Law said...

*,* Looks very yummy, your boyfriend is a blessed man~~~

雙雙 said...

Let me cook for you when you move back to HK :)

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