CHORIZO AND MUSHROOMS

CHORIZO AND MUSHROOMS: This past Thursday, I purchased ingredients for spaghetti as well as garlic bread in a package. The kind you put in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes or so. I bought one package of spaghetti sauce mix, small can of sliced olives, one pound of chorizo. It was not the traditional Basque dried though. I already had two cans of chopped tomatoes at home. Then I picked up three leeks and some button mushrooms in a box. Also got some shredded Parmesan Yay!!! On Saturday I dragged out the ingredients. I cut of the green ends of the three leeks, sliced them in half and then sliced them across into rings. I tossed them into my favorite frying pan in butter. Then I took the chorizo out of the casing and, since it was very soft, I put in the pan and mashed it up. Then I added 2 ½ cups of water, then the spaghetti sauce mix. Then I opened two cans of diced tomatoes added two tablespoons of smashed garlic. Also added some of the Parmesan. Simmer, simmer. At the same time, I had a stock pot of hot water on the boil and dropped in the buckwheat spaghetti. I also had the garlic bread baking at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Drained the spahgetti and dropped that into spaghetti. Mixed well and added the rest of the Parm. Plated the spaghetti and sliced the garlic bread. Delicious. Review: Very disappointed in the Chorizo, it disappeared in the dish and contributed nothing to the flavor. The next morning I decided to have sliced canned potatoes, bacon. I noticed the box of mushrooms, which I completely ignored yesterday. Crap! So I made the bacon into lardon, got them frying and cut about five mushrooms in half and grilled them all together for ten minutes in butter. I turned them over turned off the heat and them coast for five minutes. Tim ate one mushroom and said, yummy. After breakfast I then cut the rest of the mushrooms in half and fried them for ten minutes in butter. Turned off heat to cool and then stored them in a Ziplock to be added to the spaghetti later..or not. I facebooked Auntie Gale and begged her to go find some Chorizo, the kind that Mom hated. Can't find them here other than wimpy stuff. Yesterday I was watching a southern lady cooking onion casserole. Well, she used two large onions. Cut off both ends, peeled and sliced in half inch segments. Separated in a bowl and sauted until clear. Then she put them in a casserole dish and beat three eggs, poured that on top, cut up five spring onions, put one cup of grated sharp cheddar and baked 350 for 20 to 30 minutes. That looked pretty good. I would suggest using Greyare it is my favorite but I never see that cheese sold in large enough quantities. I will definitely try this some time. Also had a hospital dream. I was in a waiting room for some kind of procedure. When it was over, I went back into the waiting room, I called someone to pick me up. The atmosphere was much more cheerful. Another little segment I was there to escort a man in a bed, with a blue blanket. He insisted in remaining in the bed So I took him to an elevator and we got off at admitting to check out. Gonna have to look up hospital, blue and elevator. Pretty sure hospital is equivalent of nurturing, blue means boldness, creativity, elevator just a guess but maybe mood?