Mr Falafel's Portobellos Of Love

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 package portabella mushroom
• 3 -5 cloves garlic
• 3 -5 potatoes
• 3 -5 asparagus
• 1 bottle red wine

Recipe

• 1 cut the potatoes into chunks for boiling.
• 2 add them to a pot of water on the stove.
• 3 add 3+ whole cloves of garlic, peeled, to the pot.
• 4 prepare the asparagus for steaming.
• 5 peel and chop 3 more cloves of garlic.
• 6 rinse and slice portobellos into strips, all about the same size (finger width) (put the asparagus on to steam while doing this).
• 7 heat up a t of oil in a saute pan over a medium-low flame.
• 8 add garlic and cook for a few minutes until it softens.
• 9 add mushroom strips and saute for a minute.
• 10 add about 2 t red wine.
• 11 saute for awhile.
• 12 when the pan dries out a bit, add some more wine.
• 13 repeat the saute/add wine steps until mushrooms have shrunken, darkened on the outside but are tender inside.
• 14 don't be afraid to use a lot of wine.
• 15 i typically use a third of a bottle for this dish.
• 16 grind some black pepper over the mushrooms.
• 17 meanwhile, drain the potatoes (reserve the garlic cloves) and mash with a couple of tablespoons of margarine.
• 18 place some garlic mash on individual serving plates.
• 19 place the mushrooms on the plates, turn the heat up and add some more wine to'deglaze the pan'.
• 20 scrape the bits from the pan while sauteing the wine to make a thin'au jus'.
• 21 pour this over the mushrooms on the plates.
• 22 place the asparagus on the plates and serve.
• 23 be sure to have another bottle of wine on hand.