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[lillibet]

ceelove and starphire joined us for dinner tonight, together with their adorable tot, and let me experiment on them.

I had been thinking about my traditional Hungarian mushroom soup, but soup never quite feels like dinner to me, so I branched out in a slightly new direction with Mushroom Stroganoff. I was working off of this recipe and followed it fairly faithfully, although I added some dill and ended up doing a little arrowroot at the end after accidentally dumping in a cup of water from the not-drained-as-thought pasta right at the end. It worked out very well and I would do it again, although I think I'd add significantly more paprika the next time around.

One of the recipes I'd looked at for the main dish suggested baked bananas as a dessert and that sounded good to me, but a little boring, so I started with this recipe, but substituted 1T of chestnut liqueur for 1T of the lemon juice and added a cup of blueberries and then served it with lightly whipped honey-cream. It was slightly more liquid than I'd envisioned and I think I might bake it uncovered when I do it again, which I will, because it was very tasty!

Thanks for being willing test subjects and excellent company!

Comments

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you again for the delicious food and lovely company.
It's even better when Sylvana is in a good mood in the evening, too.

I'd say the food experiments were a success.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

Sylvana and I second and third the approval. (Hm. That's kind of a weird sentence.) We'll be lab rats anytime!