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gwynyth was interested in how to put together this chicken-egg-mushroom porridge thing that I seem to be eating . . .
It required two small saucepans, a cutting board and knife, a spoon, and a small mug.
Ingredients: a couple of dried shiitake mushrooms, a little bit of boneless chicken (both sort of randomly leftover from other cooking projects), milk, butter, flour, an egg. White pepper, lemon peel, powdered ginger.
Hard-boil the egg in one of the saucepans.
Start making a basic white sauce in the other -- milk and butter and flour. But put in lots of flour; I had about a tablespoon of butter (would have put in more, but that was what was left on that stick and I'm lazy), not sure about the milk but a cup or so, maybe a little more, and three or so heaping spoonfuls of flour (by 'heaping' I mean 'as much flour as I could plausibly hold on the spoon' rather than 'gently rounded'; it was probably about a third of a cup).
Fill the mug with Really Hot Water, put in the mushrooms for rehydration purposes.
Chop up the chicken into little bits. Put them in the white paste, over low heat; if you leave it long enough and chopped the chicken small enough, it should be about cooked through in the 15-20 minutes it takes for the egg to hard-boil. Add the water from the mushrooms when they're rehydrated, then chop up and add the mushrooms. Add pepper/lemon/ginger to taste. When the egg is hard-boiled, chop up and add the egg.
Cook a little longer if you want. Put in bowl.
Don't do what I did and burn your tongue.
I feel very ad hoc, reviewing that.
I'd comment that I feel really upset by the dismissive and trivialising response my last entry got in the context it was originally written for in that entry, but I don't want to pollute it with the contempt.
gwynyth was interested in how to put together this chicken-egg-mushroom porridge thing that I seem to be eating . . .It required two small saucepans, a cutting board and knife, a spoon, and a small mug.
Ingredients: a couple of dried shiitake mushrooms, a little bit of boneless chicken (both sort of randomly leftover from other cooking projects), milk, butter, flour, an egg. White pepper, lemon peel, powdered ginger.
Hard-boil the egg in one of the saucepans.
Start making a basic white sauce in the other -- milk and butter and flour. But put in lots of flour; I had about a tablespoon of butter (would have put in more, but that was what was left on that stick and I'm lazy), not sure about the milk but a cup or so, maybe a little more, and three or so heaping spoonfuls of flour (by 'heaping' I mean 'as much flour as I could plausibly hold on the spoon' rather than 'gently rounded'; it was probably about a third of a cup).
Fill the mug with Really Hot Water, put in the mushrooms for rehydration purposes.
Chop up the chicken into little bits. Put them in the white paste, over low heat; if you leave it long enough and chopped the chicken small enough, it should be about cooked through in the 15-20 minutes it takes for the egg to hard-boil. Add the water from the mushrooms when they're rehydrated, then chop up and add the mushrooms. Add pepper/lemon/ginger to taste. When the egg is hard-boiled, chop up and add the egg.
Cook a little longer if you want. Put in bowl.
Don't do what I did and burn your tongue.
I feel very ad hoc, reviewing that.
I'd comment that I feel really upset by the dismissive and trivialising response my last entry got in the context it was originally written for in that entry, but I don't want to pollute it with the contempt.
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