It was one Friday morning when a miracle happened. Someone in the house decided that would prepare the lunch instead of me! I couldn't refuse that generous offer made by my son, so I let him bring the food to the table that day.
The coincidence was not that insignificant. I mean, it was Friday, the last day he had school and he finished earlier so wanted to cook for us... and the ingredients of his masterpiece included mushrooms. What is NOT a coincidence is the week I am publishing this post. I miserable missed last Friday (well, all justified reasons, I promise :D ) when the topic for @ewkaw's initiative was food... ok, I am one week late, but as this week in FungiFriday there is no strictly set topic, I guess I can still bring this recipe.
The dish was prepared with enthusiasm and love, I was around just to take some photos. He, the young chef, seriously took care of the ingredients and the whole process. But there is one thing! I forgot to ask him what is the name of this culinary adventure.
Let's call it just French Champignon, as the background base in the kitchen where I documented this adventure contains some French details... the famous Eiffel Tower from Paris. No other reason, though the dish is more Italian as it also contains noodles.
It would be cool if I would prepare homemade noodles, but he wanted to do everything by himself. He did the shopping, so the noodles were bought too.
And onions, champignons, eggs, striped bacon, cooking cream, nutmeg and black pepper.
First, he chopped the onions and mushrooms and prepared the bacon. Let it aside. In a deep bowl, he mixed two smaller packs of cooking cream, nutmeg, two egg yolks and black pepper. (You can add just a tiny amount of salt, or omit it entirely if you don't like salty food.)
So, from this...
...to the mixed sauce. It took just a few moments.
In a saucepan, he put a bit of oil and fried the onions, sliced champignons, and bacon... he fried it for some minutes and then added the prepared sauce too and continued to cook it for not so long time. In the meantime, he cooked the noodles in another pot... then he strained the noodles and combined all the ingredients.
Well, the final result is maybe not that awesome to see. There is not so much contrast in the colours of the ingredients now when putting it all together, but you know what counts?
The taste, yes! It tasted very good, I would not guess that my son could prepare something edible at all :D And also, what counts is his wish to take the lead in the kitchen that day. I just couldn't ignore this culinary surprise!
If you have never participated in the FungiFriday event, I encourage you to do that. There are some guidelines on how to participate, let's see them:
On Fridays, you can post any mushroom-related content (your own photo, drawing, art, recipe...) in this community and state somewhere in your post that it is for the FungiFriday event held by @ewkaw. You should use the tag #FungiFriday but it doesn't have to be the first tag. And most importantly, have fun preparing it. Not this recipe but your post :))
{Although, you can try to prepare this dish also, it was not difficult and if a youngster could do it, I guess that we all can 馃槈}
Happy Friday, surrounded by fungus :))