When in Doubt, Throw it Out
When in Doubt, Throw it Out When comes to food, this has always been my mantra until…..a couple of days ago. I had hurriedly gone to a market known to me to sell produce of questionable freshness. Not always the most crisp of vegetables however, I’m always guaranteed to get an avocado of the perfect ripeness. So off to the market I go. Cousin Annie will be here from Pasadena on her way to Berkeley and I’m fixing lunch. A Thai beef salad, which is spicy enough to call for a few soothing slices of this luxurious, appealing fruit. Now, I need to cook the tenderloin medallions for the salad - great! I’ll have a steak dinner tonight with plenty of leftover beef for the salad tomorrow. I really like sauteed mushrooms on my steak, so I bought a box of sliced mushrooms of dubious freshness. Later when getting ready to cook dinner, the mushrooms look worse than earlier. Not one to give up easily and against my better judgment, I toss the questionable mushrooms into the iron ...