On Saturday, I decided to make stuffed mushrooms for dinner. This was probably due to the fact that on Friday, some of my colleagues and I went to Dave’s at 1Utama for lunch (they have 50% off selected pastas during lunch hour), and I ordered stuffed mushrooms to share. It was so yummilicious, but when my brother ate it, he remarked that it would probably be quite easy to make it at home. Fueled by that comment, I went grocery shopping on Saturday morning and bought all the ingredients I would need.

Step 1, wash the mushrooms and cut off the stalks, and fry them for a short while. Now, here’s the first mistake Mr T. and I made. I asked him, “So, how many should we cook?” His response was…”All of them lah, otherwise what are we going to do with the rest.” Normally, stuffed mushrooms are an appetiser, where you probably eat no more than 3 – 4, right? We ended up with this many….

The next day, when we we were telling my extended family about it, I estimated the number to be about 20, and Mr. T said no way that it was 20. Well, I counted from this picture, and it’s 22!

Next, we fried up all the other ingredients, garlic and bacon and some tomatoes, and heaped them onto the mushrooms. This was a teeny bit difficult, as some of the mushrooms were so tiny. I was also unsure whether to use the mozarella cheese as a base and then pile everything on top, or whether to pile everything first, then drape the mozarella on top. So, as a compromise, we did it half – half. Yes, I’m a cooking newbie…So anyway, at the end of the exercise, here’s what we ended up with.

It looks a bit messy, but it was hard to stuff everything in there! Also, by this time, it was about 9, and we were pretty hungry. So it went into the oven like that (pre-heated at about 200 C), and it baked for about 15 minutes. And here’s our finished product!

Presentation isn’t great, but hey, I’m a developer, not a designer! :p As long as they’re on the plate and cooked, that’s what counts, right? They tasted pretty good, obviously nowhere close to Dave’s standard, but definitely a success. And hey, my mum ate two, and considering that there’s unhealthy CHEESE on the mushrooms, that must mean that she liked them! We were oh-so-tired of eating mushrooms by the end, it was just so many! And because the finished product picture didn’t look that great, here’s a close-up of one of the mushrooms before it went into the oven, it looks really yummy and juicy.

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