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After breakfast I felt hungry, so lunch came up a bit earlier than usual.

 

A home made beef burger on ciabatta. With a nice Rioja. 

 

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Thinking about dinner, now.

 

 

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Lunch was spaghetti with a quick meat sauce made with Rao's Marinara.  Served with a couple of grilled links of homemade Italian onion sausage, Salsiccia di Cipolla.  The recipe for the sausage came from the Len Poli Sonoma Mountain Sausage site.  I've prepared a number of the sausage formulations over the years and they have all been excellent. All of the recipes open as pdf files so it's very easy to build a sausage library!

 

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Lunch was a bit of a disaster. I took some mushrooms - shiitake; jade gill mushrooms (海鲜菇 hǎi xiān gūHypsizygus tessellatus; and pig stomach mushrooms (猪肚菇 zhū dù gū), Infundibulicybe gibba and fried them with some shallot.

 

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Then I attempted an omelette made with a goose egg, something I've done many times, but made a careless but critical mistake. It is my habit when making omelettes with chicken or duck eggs to add a splash of water to the beaten eggs - makes for a lighter result. However, it doesn't work with goose eggs - something I momentarily forgot!

 

Instead of making the egg fluffier, it weakened the walls of the omelette and it fell apart when I attempted to transfer it to my plate. It tasted great but looked like a train wreck. 

 

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Well, at least I know what I did wrong.  😬

 

 

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