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[may22]

Yail, I had to share this with you-- my ten year old told me last night when I was cooking dinner that she was giving up truffles for Lent. I was like, chocolate truffles? (Thinking, when do you eat truffles?) And she said no, truffles truffles, like truffle sauce (this yummy soy-truffle sauce I got that will entice my kids to eat absolutely ANYTHING as long as it has truffle sauce on it). So... I got a little kick out of that.

Also, truffles are a bit of my f-you to my H who thinks they smell like farts and old socks, so now that I've converted the children into truffle lovers he gets all fake-annoyed at dinner time by the smell of truffles. (And caveat, I'm not like shaving real truffles on our food or anything.. just drizzling a little truffle soy sauce or truffle butter on regular food and calling it "truffled". I found some that do have a tiny bit of real truffles in them for not too much $$ and aren't just the chemicals.)

Finally... if you love mushrooms a very inexpensive and delicious meal is Japanese mushroom rice, you can google like matsutake gohan recipes, and just substitute dried shiitakes for the matsutakes (or whatever kind of mushrooms you have on hand). Really simple and yummy. I just throw it all in the rice cooker, no real cooking needed.

Have a great week-- really happy to hear about you digging in and mapping out your growth. That is exciting!