Now that I have some semblance of normality cooking back into my cooking life, it´s fun to start enjoying foods that are not so readily available to us in Spain. Stilton cheese (that beautiful, pungent English blue cheese) for one. And bizarrely flat mushrooms – we don´t get much mushroom choice available locally Up the Mountain unless we go foraging.
To go with an amazing T-Bone steak for Big Man (what else) and a fillet steak for me, I made some delicious mushrooms stuffed with spring onion, stilton and dolcelatte. Another simple dish, but oh so good with the beautiful local beef available here in East Sussex.
Ingredients (to stuff 2-4 flat mushrooms, depending on the size of your mushrooms)
- About half a cup of coarse, fresh breadcrumbs (I made mine from day old ciabatta)
- The finely chopped stems of the mushrooms
- About 75g of cheese (I used a mixture of stilton and dolcelatte)
- 2 medium spring onions finely sliced
- 1 fat clove of garlic, crushed
- Salt and pepper
- Olive oil
Start by drizzling a little olive oil into each mushroom. Mix all the other ingredients together, season to taste and divide it between the mushrooms. Press the filling down a little and then drizzle a little more oil over the top.
Bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes until the mushrooms are soft and the stuffing starts to crisp. Delicious as a side dish or a starter.
And for anyone feeling brave..take a look at the old kitchen/bathroom in house number two. Eek!
Chica Andaluza 
Those mushrooms look good!!
I love making stuffed mushrooms, and they’ll probably be on my menu again this week. 🙂
Bonnie
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Yes, they´re so tasty aren´t they?!
Absolutely!
I bet you both appreciate being able to cook again. Great mushrooms 😉
Yes, the appreciation ismost definitely mutual!
Sounds delicious just as it is.
So you’ve stripped it out – now the fun begins 🙂
Yes, no need for anything else if you don´t want it!
Mouthwatering…we are becoming huge fans of Stilton cheese. Huge in more than one way 😉
I know what you mean, cheese is a bit naughty (but good naughty)!
I love it all except the blue cheese – never have been able to get accustomed to it. So exciting to see the “gutted” new kitchen / bathroom in house 2.
🙂 Mandy
My best pal also doesn´t “do” blue cheese – I´d make it with brie or camembert, or mozzarella (or all three) for you and her! Yes, the gutted kitchen is …erm..a challenge!
House Number TWO! well i think you need more than a stuffed mushroom or two, tasty tho they would be.. I have unfollowed and followed you to try and get you back in my email.. fingers crossed! c
Oh I saw you had problems, what a pain! Well, you saw the size of the steaks we also had to keep our energy levels up 🙂
steak is good! c
Steak and cheesy mushrooms is about as good as it gets. I cannot wait to see what you do with this kitchen. Eep…very exciting.
…and a little bit scary…gulp!
Pish! A woman of your capabilities can pull this off with aplomb!
Eeek! But the stuffed mushrooms are a brilliant idea
now back to work…..:)
Sounds lovely except for the blue cheese 😦 Other than that, sounds delish!
Some people just don´t do the blue cheese thing – but there are so many other lovely cheeses to use, especially melty ones!
Stilton is definitely one of the best British cheeses – a really special flavour. It looks as though you made delicious use of it here. And you’ve made a good start on the second house – it always has to get worse before it gets better. Bon courage!
Aha – a fan in the stilton camp! And yes, it does all have to get much, much worse before it gets better but at least now we´ve had the experience of the first one 🙂
a good bluey cheese with steak & mushrooms is like the ultimate good meal 🙂 And yes- eek to your kitchen and bathroom! Can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s done.
I´m glad I´m not the only one saying “eek” – I wondered if I was over reacting 😉
Have always loved making and eating stuffed mushrooms: haven’t put as strong cheese in methinks, but this DOES look moreish!! Another recipe for the files!!
I do love strong flavours but I know they´re not for everyone. We really enjoyed them!
Mushrooms are the best… and we’re almost into mushroom-finding-season. Although I usually insist on trekking round the fields with our plastic bags and our field spotter guides, we pretty much end up convincing ourselves that every fungi we come across will give us heart palpitations and therefore come home empty handed!! x
Yes, we are very wary too, but we have enough local experts Up the Mountain to guide us thankfully! I need to invite Antonio Carluccio for a walk with us!
Oh yes, he’s fab. x
Great to hear the cooker’s working and you can get back to producing good things to eat:)
I don´t know what I missed more – cooking or the internet…how sad is that?!
The mushrooms look great. There are some fields above us that look like they may well provide us with some tasty field mushrooms in the coming weeks. I love the Autumn and being able to cook homely foods again! Cracking day here hope you are able to get out and about. Don’t work too hard!
That sounds good – hope you do indeed find some mushrooms. Beautiful day here too – lunch in the garden (even if it is only a sandwich) I think today!
This is my kind of dinner, Tanya! Steak with mushrooms. YUM! Your photo of the mushroom cap with the melted cheese has me thinking that I need to get to a grocery store. Yes, there’s a great deal of work needed in kitchen no.2 but I’ve seen what you did with kitchen no. 1. No. 2 will look great once you’ve worked your magic. Guaranteed.
I´m really looking forward to kitchen no 2 – it will have space for a table, which is much nicer and we´ve learned so much from no 1! Go on now, get down to that grocery store 🙂
Yum! I keep meaning to tell you that your header reminds me of coconut 🙂
I love that association – I know exactly what you mean!
Funny how we crave food from other places! I do love stilton too but you need a small mortgage to get it here. Good luck with the renovation, the photo is a bit scary.
Yes, in Spain we can´t get it often and then the Price is more frightening than the photo of the kitchen 😉
Oh my ….. for the mushroom and the work required for house #2!
So true 😉
Turn that frown upside down girl! Think words like “Steampunk”‘; “retro” and “old school” with regards to that bathroom (in other words, think like a real estate agent ;)). Stuffed mushrooms look delicious 🙂
Aha – a mindset change…you´re right! Smiley face 🙂
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¡Me encanta! Una receta sencilla pero muy rica, mi preferida 🙂 Muchos ánimos con house number dos 😉
Gracias Giovanna – todo va muy bien, pero vamos a pasar una semana en españa la semana que viene, lo necesitamos!
Life’s never too short to stuff a mushroom! I have to say – stilton is a flavour I never really “grew in to”, but I love it when it’s cooked – with mushrooms is a fantastic way of serving it – the flavours complement each other very well.
It´s funny how our tastes change too over time – but I agree, stilton is quite an acquired taste because it´s so “pungent”!
Stilton, mushrooms and cheese, now that is a delicious dinner. I hope you aren’t getting spoiled with all the ingredients that are now readily available to you. Are you going to keep the fireplace in the kitchen. We have one in our New Hampshire house. It is the favorite spot for all our visitors to sit in front of while we cook for them.
We´re currently trying to work out how to configure the kitchen, sadly as the house in a town, there´s not much call for open fires 😦 If I were to be living here though…I´d have turned it into a feature!
Stuffed mushrooms are always welcome in our home. Wonderful stuffing.
Thanks Jed – great to “see” you!
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You´re welcome – glad you liked it!
Ok..house no 2 is just scary! but I can’t wait to see what it looks like after you work your magic on it 🙂
It is scary and each day right now it looks worse… I know it will look better eventually though!
Eek is right!! You are a brave pair but you do an amazing job! I love stuffed mushroom caps.. I tried to make some stuffed portobello this summer.. but after cooking they went flat as a pancake and lost their shape. Maybe I didn’t have a hot enough oven?? Yours look scrumptious.. as always:) xx
It´s a fine line with mushrooms – too little cooking and they stay hard, too much and they collapse. Try drizzling a little oil or wine into the cap before you stuff it – that extra moisture can help soften it quickly so that it cooks without collapsing!
Thanks! I’m going to try them again I think.. I also wondered about removing the black “gills”, maybe I shouldn’t have..
I love stuffing mushrooms. I’ll have to add this to the list. Looks delicious.
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