Stuffed Mushrooms

Mushrooms yum, mushroom stuffed with cheese heaven. One of the things I ate during my first visit to the US was cheese stuffed mushrooms. One bite and heaven! Back home mushrooms were sparingly used in pizzas and to my knowledge everyone grabbed for the slice with the most mushroom and olives.

 

Its been a quiet sunday for M and I, watched the awesome '24' on netflix. The weather was pretty cool, and I was in the mood for something with cheese and the thought of stuffed mushrooms was very tempting. Once I was done with the mushrooms, with the leftover stuffing I made stuffed jalapenos. They were oh so good...I'm adding another post with the recipe for that one...

 

 

Prep Time - 10mins   | Cooking Time - 30mins   |  Serves  - 2

 

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup Italian-style dried bread crumbs
• 1/2 cup grated Pecorino romano
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
• 2 tblsp chopped cilantro
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 14 large white mushroom stemmed
• 1/3 cup olive oil

 

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F. 

 

Stir bread crumbs, pecorino romano, garlic, salt pepper, cilantro and 2 tablespoon olive oil in a bowl. Drizzle and coat a baking sheet with olive oil. Spoon the filling into the cavity of the mushroom and arrange on the baking sheet. Drizzle remaining oil over the filling of each mushroom. Bake until the mushrooms are tender and the stuffing is golden on top, about 25mins. Serve. 

 

PS : I additionally topped mine with some extra grated cheese.

Stuffed Jalapeno

I just used the leftover stuffing from my stuffed mushroom post for this recipe.

 

 

 

 

Prep time - 5mins   | Cooking time 25mins

 

Ingredients

• 9 Jalapenos cut in half and remove seeds
• Same ingredients as stuffed mushrooms

 

Pre-heat oven 400 degree F. Use recipe for stuffing from here. Stuff the jalapenos and bake for 25mins. Serve.

 

Banana Walnut Bread

I usually have a my kitchen stocked with fruits. We are both fruit eaters.Sometimes, I end up having some very ripe bananas and I cringe and cry because I have to throw them. I personally hate wasting food.
So I found a new way of freezing them to later use when making banana bread, muffins or even smoothies.

 

You can either peel them and freeze them on a cookie sheet and then put it in a baggie or freeze them with the peel on.
To use let thaw and mash as normal for the recipe.

 

Here is the banana walnut bread recipe, making the dough is pretty easy doesnt require any major tools a spatula is good. The bread itself came out very soft, not so sweet and simply yummy.

 

Prep Time - 10mins | Cooking Time - 1Hour | Serves - 6

 

• 3 ripe bananas mashed
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 egg room temparature and beaten lightly
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

 

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat oven for 350F(175 C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan and dust it with flour. Using a spatula mix the melted butter to the mashed bananas. Mix in the sugar,egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into the loaf pan. Bake for 1hour. Cool on rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.