It was cold AF tonight, so we were justified in turning up the stove and oven to make two things: mushrooms (white button and hen of the woods) that are seasoned and dry-sauteed on medium-high heat and then finished with butter and paired with an egg yolk, and a one-pot chicken in which you bring your Dutch oven to 500-ish degrees in a regular oven and put a chicken that’s been brined all day in a salt water solution and then dried and rubbed down with oil in it and then it cooks first covered and then uncovered. You baste in the midst of cooking, but otherwise you let the blazing hot cast iron do its thing, and it’s so fucking good.
The mushroom and egg recipe comes courtesy of Mimi Thorrisson whose second cookbook is arguably better than the first, because stuff like this is seriously next level. She has you use fresh porcinis and chanterelles, but I used white button mushrooms and hen of the woods and it still worked out very, very well. I might try using tarragon the next time given how well it plays with both eggs and mushrooms.
(We also made more of the salad I made yesterday but I didn’t want to post that two days in a row.)