monday night experiment (vegan diaries)
March 26, 2002

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  1. + 1 tbsp truffle oil

  2. tbsp flour

  3. cups soy milk

  4. cup mushroom stock 1/2 cup madiera

  5. cloves braised garlic

  6. oz brown mushrooms

  7. oz oyster mushrooms 30g black summer truffles Madiera/truffle oil pasta

  8. Heat 2 tbsp truffle oil in a medium-sized pot. Add 1 clove of braised garlic, minced. Saute briefly. Add the flour slowly and make a roux.

  9. Stir in the soy milk and heat through. Pour mixture into blender and blend. Pour blended mixture back into pot.

  10. Let the soy milk reduce by 1/3 or more (but do not boil), stirring to avoid burning or (developing a skin). Add mushroom stock. Reduce again by 1/3. Add madiera and truffles. Put mixture on low heat so it is reducing slowly. Sauce should sit at least 20 minutes on low heat with truffles.

  11. Saute mushrooms and 2 cloves braised garlic in 1 tbsp truffle oil until mushrooms lose their water. Dump mushrooms into sauce.

  12. Cook pasta until just short of al dente. Drain. Add pasta to sauce and stir. Let pasta finish cooking in sauce. Serve immediately.

  • note sauces book on summer truffles.

  • more mushrooms! real truffles! less sauce.

  • continuum: Darrell, me, Rebecca on amount of flavor in sauce

  • needs a spice of some kind? rosemary? (saw one similar recipe with rosemary.)

  • me: needs something else to provide some structure, to make it a main dish instead of a first course. but what? could even be a vegetable. Not necessarily mixed in; could even just sit on top.

  • still tempted to try the incredible marinara i had that one time in Dallas...wow. what an experience. Pyramid room.

  • cream sauce is just about as good as most i've made with cream. although it's hard to tell with the truffles. but let's just say i didn't miss the cream.

  • what I did miss was the fowl. this should have had a nice piece of something birdlike sitting on top of it. So, seitan is a possibility for a topper. but there still needs to be some other flavor.

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