Background: When I’m in a rush but I’ve prepped myself up a bunch, I can resort to stacking moves quickly. On a night when I’m making buttered noodles for my kids and my wife is working late, I’ll combine these moves to make myself something good.
- Do the Buttered Noodles move.
- Feed the kids, make them get in their PJs, and let them have some screen time.
- Now do the Beer Braised Mushroom move. Add extra beer to your mouth if desired.
- If you’ve done the Wild Onion move, add that to the mushroom move. If not, add your allium of choice (or proximity).
- Judge your desired noodle to mushroom ratio and pull out any mushrooms you want to save for leftovers or freeze for another move.
- Throw the noodles right in the mushroom pan to rewarm.
- Add a butter, milk or cream if you’ve got it.
- Grate some hard cheese like Asiago on top.
Why It Works:
- You can do the buttered noodles move the night before if your kids don’t mind microwaved. noodles.
- Your call on showers/baths.
- You can do this move the night before if you don’t mind rewarmed mushrooms. Warm them up in a pot or skillet though.
- Chives or garlic work well. Regular Frenched or diced onions plus braised mushrooms don’t create a lot of contrast in mouth feel. Through they would work if you do mod #1 below.
- The point here is to judge how much mushroom you want to save.
- There should be enough liquid in the pan, but if not, go to move #7.
- You just want enough to coat everything and bring the sauce together. Everything is going to warm up quickly, so not much is going to cook off.
- Or you might crumble a soft cheese like chèvre or Maytag bleu cheese at the end.
Mods:
- Add ground beef to this move.
- Add ground wild game to this move.
- Add toasted pine nuts to this move at the very very end.