Monthly Archives: April 2012

Foolproof super-simple but awesome recipe: mushroom pasta

I’ve been cooking this a lot recently, after having eaten something similar at our best nearby pub/restaurant, The Mill Race.  It came as quite a shock to realise how simple it is, and I thought it deserved to be  shared more widely.

Ingredients: mushrooms, cream, butter, salt, pepper, pasta.

Quantities: I really couldn’t say: I just use the amount that seems about right.  To give a very rough idea, I used a dozen mushrooms when I last made this, which was for three people, but you could certainly use more.  Probably about 100 ml of cream, and a blob of butter about the size of a smallish USB stick.  (I propose this as the new standard unit for measuring butter.)

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