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Default Marinated Mushrooms

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:06:56 -0500, Steve Wertz
> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

>On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:13:47 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
>> I dunno, my instinct is to neither simmer them nor set them in lemon
>> juice. Lemon juice is going to shrink the mushrooms, as will simmering
>> them, which seems to me to impede the mushrooms' ability to absorb the
>> marinade. I have no personal experience with either, however, it just
>> makes sense to me.

>
>Try blanching them once and see for yourself. I've done them both
>ways and blanching is far superior, IMNSHO.
>

Deal - next time I make them, I'll give this a shot and report back.
In fact, I may do a blind study and divide the batch and do 'em both
ways, then see who likes which better.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
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