HEY Y'ALL

wooooah! i haven't posted in. a. minute.

BUT its because this has been a super busy few weeks.

FIRST! i went down to mississippi to visit MEGHAN! it was ridiculous. more on that later. then i had to get a tattoo & then it was halloween. and i am just barely recovered financially & like physically...

but of course megnation and i did some TAILGATE COOKING (which is the best kind obviously)



we made two things! i was in charge of a cheesy asparagus pouffff pastry tart thang. ^^^ blind baking of said pastry


cooked down onions



smothered in cheese, duh.



the beginnings of meg's dish (which i don't remember the name of) but was awesome poached eggs in a tomato-y brothy thing - so good.



the base! i see tomatoes, onions, AND MUSHROOMS.



POACHED EGGS SECURED.



invite us to your tailgate, y'all. we bring (fucking awesome) things



all we took! don't judge on the butt-plug champs. the walmart didn't have much of a selection.



this was the final spread. the hostess was a completely amazing cook. she made sausage balls (which are the essence of tailgates), sweet potato biscuits with sausage gravy, and badass bloody marys. i was so full of great food and disgusting champs that it hurt.

(what we also didn't discuss is that i bought us one of those like roasted chickens of which i ate a majority of before this potluck. i am disgusting)

EGGGGGS

SO BECAUSE ON THIS THURSDAY I AM GOING TO MISSISSIPPI TO VISIT MEGHAN AND I CAN'T EVEN BREATHE AND I AM DYING EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

anywho i have a dozen eggs & and i needed to get rid of them while at the same time make something i can eat for the rest of the week.

i used the portobello mushrooms, my pickled red pepper (from like ages ago), scallions, parmesean, 11 eggs, AND A TON OF CHEDDAR, ROLL TIDE.

look at how cute my little ramekins are

then i poured the rest of it into muffin tins. that's about three per day for lunch. idk what ima do for dinner.

can't deal. can't bear.

if i was anyone other than me, i might think that there is WAAAAAY TOO MUCH CHEESE in these. except that isn't a real thing in my life. they are epic.

SRIRACHA IS GOD.

humungous fungus among-us

so i went to the green city market and in the half off bin were MUSHROOMS! STFU! mushrooms are so expensive y'all!! i had a left over pouff pastry so i made a fancy mushroom tart.

i got four kinds!! above are my cremini & portobellos. (aren't creminis just baby portobellos?)(the portobellos were reserved until tonight, that post will be later)

OYSTER MUSHROOMS which made me feel super fancy.

so this is the creminis, the osyters, white wine, mustard, onions, garlic, and cream cheese (because i didn't have any milk or cream)

while it isn't as visually stimulating as my tomato tart, this one tasted better. not that the other one didn't taste amazing, but it was rad.

these are my shiitakes!!! so the minimum on credit card charges is five dollars. before i grabbed the mushrooms i was at like $2.00 so then i also bought some thyme. BUT I STILL WASNT AT FIVE DOLLARS. the dude was like you should buy all these shiitakes and dry/dehydrate them.

this is them layed out.

this is them chopped. i was supposed to put them in the oven at 150 for an hour, press them with a paper towel to get all the water out and do it for another hour. of course, i was crunk'd and ended up leaving them in there from about 6:00 pm to 4:38am (IN A COMPLETE PANIC). they were completely fine, none of them were burnt. AND I DID RESEARCH. apparently when you do this they can last FOR SEVERAL YEARS. WHAT. yesssss. risotto? soup? WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THESE?