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Grilled Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

These should be called “Grilled Portobello Mushrooms With Toppings,” because they didn’t really turn out “stuffed. We liked them as a unique side dish just the same. The recipe noted, “Grill the mushrooms stem sides down first, so that when they’re turned they’ll be in the right position to be filled.” (Note: Dallas just walked by and saw me editing the photos for this post and commented on how good the mushrooms were. He doesn’t even like tomatoes!)

Grilled Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

Ingredients
2/3 cup chopped plum tomato
1/4 cup (1 ounce) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1 garlic clove, crushed
4 (5-inch) portobello mushroom caps
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons soy sauce
Cooking spray
2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley

Instructions
Prepare grill.

Combine the tomato, cheese, 1/2 teaspoon oil, rosemary, pepper, and garlic in a small bowl.

Remove brown gills from the undersides of mushroom caps using a spoon, and discard gills. Remove stems; discard. Combine 1/2 teaspoon oil, juice, and soy sauce in a small bowl; brush over both sides of mushroom caps. Place the mushroom caps, stem sides down, on grill rack coated with cooking spray, and grill for 5 minutes on each side or until soft.

Spoon 1/4 cup tomato mixture into each mushroom cap. Cover and grill 3 minutes or until cheese is melted. Sprinkle with parsley.

Yield
4 servings (serving size: 1 mushroom)

Nutritional Information
CALORIES 83(38% from fat); FAT 3.5g (sat 1g,mono 1.2g,poly 0.4g); IRON 2.2mg; CHOLESTEROL 4mg; CALCIUM 60mg; CARBOHYDRATE 10.1g; SODIUM 123mg; PROTEIN 5.4g; FIBER 2.5g

Cooking Light, JUNE 2001

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Tuesdays with the Farmers’ Market

July 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Yesterday morning I went back to the Lincoln Square farmers’ market. The farmers’ market is fun for everyone. In the photo above: spot the hipster, spot the kids, the elderly, the middle-aged. My bag felt extra heavy so I weighed it when I got home. 13 pounds! Ouch. Good thing I took the bus.

I wanted to note that these are my favorite vendors:
- Seedling Fruit, South Haven, MI :: Great fruit, esp. berries
- River Valley Kitchen, Burlington, WI :: All sorts of mushrooms
- Lange’s Farm, Elwood, IL :: Excellent variety of high-quality vegetables
- Dotson’s Farm, Linwood, IL :: Good selection of herb plants

This is what I bought at the farmers’ market:
- cherries
- raspberries
- blueberries
- 5 ears of corn
- 2 cucumbers
- 4 beets (A lady saw my beets and asked me how to prepare them. I said “I don’t know! I have to go home and look it up online!”)
- green beans
- tomatoes
- 4 portobello tops (I want to make these)
- portobello salsa with cilantro & key lime
- 4 free cta rides courtesy of Swedish Covenant Hospital (they were handing them out at the nearby Western Brown Line stop and just kept giving me more)

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$36 Well Spent at the Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market

July 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments


Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market, Lincoln Square, Chicago


Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market, Lincoln Square, Chicago


Farmers’ Market Produce, Roscoe Village, Chicago

Back in Chicago means back at the Tuesday Lincoln Square farmers’ market. For $36 I brought home:

- 3 large portabello tops
- small portabellos
- raspberries
- blueberries
- cherries
- 2 sage plants
- green onions
- two types of zucchini
- yellow squash
- grape tomatoes (various colors)
- green pepper
- 5 ears of corn
- lettuce
- 1 free energy saver light bulb from the 47th Ward alderman Gene Schulter

Everything is so much better when you get it fresh from the regional farmers instead of shipped from who knows where at the supermarket. The berries were unbelievable. So flavorful. And the lettuce was so big and tasty. And the corn! So sweet and delicate.

I don’t think I wrote about this before, but I’ve spoken about it to a few people. I really like the guy in the mushroom stand. I’ve talked to him a lot about the different kinds of mushrooms he has. One day we talked about how portobello’s, the large ones, were actually a mistake. They were the little crimini mushrooms that were let go another 2 or 3 days and grew big, what we now know as portobellos. Then portobellos got to be so popular that they now refer to criminis as baby portobellos and sometimes charge more for them. This last time I was at the market the mushroom stand was crazy. Instead of the one guy there were 2-3 more people working the stand and giving out samples and stuff. They also sell a lot of canned mushroom dips, salsas and sauces that they give out free samples of. The mushrooms are grown in a greenhouse in Wisconsin.

I also went to Jewel later on to get a few more things so I could make this corn/avocado/tomato salad. We actually made this salad a lot when I was in Cape Cod and used the basil that Jessica’s uncle gave us. I don’t really have a specific recipe for the salad, but this is what’s in it. I just added enough of each til it looked good.

- 1 avocado
- 2 cobs of corn, cook & cut off the cob
- about a cup of tomato
- basil
- splash of olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- juice of one lemon

I’d gotten the corn and tomatoes at the farmers’ market and I grew the basil on my patio.

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Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market

June 23rd, 2008 · 7 Comments


Lincoln Square Farmers’ Market, Lincoln Square, Chicago


My Produce, Roscoe Village, Chicago

The Lincoln Square farmers’ market is located at 4700 N. Western (next to the Brown Line stop) and is open from 7 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Tuesdays. The market is a pretty decent size and is not too busy, since it’s not a convenient time to shop for a lot of people. I thought the selection was pretty diverse and I came away with a pretty good haul for about $20 – strawberries (in my yogurt every morning), portobello mushrooms (grilled for sandwiches), onions, salmonella-free tomato, and lettuce. Oh, and a whole basil plant for about $2.50. I swear the herbs I planted from Home Depot were double the price and half the size.

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HB Home Bistro

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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HB Home Bistro, Boystown, Chicago

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HB Home Bistro, Boystown, Chicago

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Stuffed Portobello Sandwich, HB Home Bistro, Boystown, Chicago

Margaret and I went to HB yesterday. We thought it was the Hearty Boys restaurant. You know, the local guys who won “The Next Food Network Star” contest on the Food Network. But then when we went in, it said that HB stood for Home Bistro and that the chef was Joncarl Lachman. Research shows today, that Lachman, who has been in the kitchen from the beginning, has taken over ownership and renamed the restaurant, but that the decor and menu and everything are the same.

I loved the interior, it was soo cute. And our waiter was really friendly. Our food took longer than anyone else in the restaurant to come out, which sucked, but our waiter ended up taking a few bucks off the bill at the end. Also, my portobello in my sandwich was on the small side. I ate up the portobello in my sandwich and then I was left with bun. That being said, the Parmesan truffle fries more than made up for everything else. They were so delicious and it was a really generous portion. I remember getting Parmesan truffle fries at Sola and sharing a smaller portion than each sandwich at HB got. YUM!

Margaret and I had started out the day by checking out this “French Market” which actually turned out to be a tiny neighborhood farmer’s market. .. which is fine, but not what we were looking for. We ended up walking up Broadway to Addison and down Halstead for lunch. Then we walked west on Belmont and did some shopping, went up Southport, west on Addison, south on Ashland, west on Roscoe, ending up in the garden at The Village Tap drinking pitchers of beer. It was a fun day and we might have gained a lot of calories later that night, but Gmap Pedometer says we walked about 3.5 miles, so hopefully it balanced out.

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