Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
rice with mushrooms and spinach
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Rice With Mushrooms And Spinach
Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter
2 cups mushrooms, sliced
1 [3 ounce size] package cream cheese, cubed
3 cups cooked rice
2 cups fresh spinach, torn
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions:
1) Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
2) Add the mushrooms; cook 'til soft --- two to four minutes.
3) Add the cream cheese and stir 'til melted.
4) Reduce the heat to medium-low.
5) Add the rice, stirrin' 'til well blended and heated through ---
three to four minutes.
6) Remove skillet from heat..
7) In large bowl, combine the cooked rice mixture, spinach,
Parmesan cheese, walnuts, salt and pepper.
8) Toss well and serve.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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