Not gonna lie, today was a rough day. I woke up not feeling too great but had the day off work which made it feel a little daunting during social distancing. Everyone else in the house got up to work or video chat with friends but I didn’t have major plans today and felt drained before I even opened my eyes. It’s a sunny day but it’s still clocking on under 50 degrees so it’s a little tough to go out for a hike. Instead, I decided to cook and get my spirits up so I checked out my list of recipes I want to try and figured out I had just about everything I needed to make Molly Baz’s Mushroom Carbonara. Of course, I’ve only seen the Bon Appetit video but I was super excited to see that it’s actually a Basically recipe which made it even more motivating to make today. High success rate for delicious food; it was a task for the morning.
So I started off browning the mushrooms, cooking the pasta, and cooked off the onions and garlic. (I didn’t have shallots so onions would do today.) The mushrooms went well it started to smell super great. I made the egg/parm sauce and combined everything together. All in all, it was a super easy dish to make with a simple amount of ingredients. I’m not good at keeping herbs on hand because I always end up wasting them when they wilt in the fridge. I need to get a little herb kitchen garden going so I can just pick what I need when I’m cooking.
Caleb came back in for lunch right as I was finishing up and got the first taste. I was pretty happy with the consistency of the eggs and the cheese was melting as I scooped the pasta into my bowl. He okayed the pasta and get more excited about the flavor as he had a bite with mushroom and got everything together. I figured I could’ve cooked the mushroom down a little more because some pieces weren’t cooked down all the way but it wasn’t a bad doneness the way it was. I”m happy with this and the ease of it and the return from it was great. Not a perfect day but this helped.