Recipes of the weekend

[featherynscale]

Booze Balls
2 cups finely chopped nuts
1 1/2 cups crushed cookies (I used vanilla wafers, but I'm thinking next time ginger snaps)
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup booze of your choice (I made a batch with Gosling's Black Seal Rum and a batch with Tuaca, both were yummy)
Powdered sugar

Combine nuts, crumbs, honey, and booze. Chill about 15 minutes. Roll into small balls, coat in powdered sugar. Let sit a day or so before serving. Makes 24-30 depending on how big your balls are. Remind people that there is indeed booze therein, because, you know, there is.


Stuffed Shrooms with Spinach and Feta
24 oz. large white mushrooms
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Greek seasoning
6 oz frozen spinach, thawed or heated and squished dry
4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
6 oz feta crumbles
4 oz cream cheese
paprika or crushed red pepper

Preheat oven to 375. Remove stems from mushrooms, and peel outer coating from caps. Coat both sides of each cap with a thin layer of olive oil. Place caps round side down into baking dish. Season with salt, pepper, and greek seasoning. Bake in 375 degree oven for 15 minutes. Turn caps over (so that round side is up), bake an additional 10 minutes.

Combine spinach, feta, cream cheese, and bacon. Add a little paprika or red pepper according to pepper preferences. When shrooms are done baking, turn them round-side down and fill each cap with a scoop of spinach mixture. Bake filled shrooms about another 10 minutes, or stop before they blow up.

Bits of sun-dried tomato can be substituted for bacon, according to whim. I imagine that pignoli would be tasty in these as well. Mushrooms can be roasted and stuffed in advance, and baked the final 10-15 minutes immediately before serving.

Comments

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

I eas not hungry until I read this...Must go shopping and stuff mushrooms soon!!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I <3 stuffed mushrooms. You can make them with practically anything and they're still tasty. And they're easy enough that even I can make them without fucking them up, and usually I can't cook anything that doesn't come out of a box.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Mmmmushrooms are the yum.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I want spinach! I really miss spinach. The stuffed 'shrooms sounds so good

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I was able to buy a bag of fresh spinach the other week, but I didn't see any the last time I was in the store. In cases like this, you ought to be able to sign a waiver swearing that you will cook your be-damned spinach and you hold the FDA harmless if you die anyway.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

The only problem being I don't actually cook my spinach...love it raw. I think I'll grow my own eventually

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

The stuffed 'shrooms sound great. Except that you have now made me hungry, and I'm broke. Darnit.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

"But I do want to eat from a machine. Vended food contains all the necessary nutrients for survival. Taste damn good too, by golly. And plus, on any given evening, the machine that last night gave you cheetos might dispense instead... Doritos. Yohos. Oreos. Tostitos. Or Lorna Doones."

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

Must try the boozeballs. I have some awesome coconut rum that might be good with nilla wafers...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- I think coconut rum would not at all suck in that recipe.