KITCHEN ADVENTURES: SPREAD THE LOVE.<\/span> I had a ridiculously tasty lunch the other day. <\/p>\n Anyway, ingredients<\/span> (use the amount that seems right to you): sourdough bread, garlic, fresh ginger, crimini mushrooms (button and shiitake would also work), cream cheese, olive oil, and a bottled sesame-ginger sauce I bought at the Whole Foods corporate-charity sale.<\/p>\n What I did<\/span>: Finely chopped the garlic, peeled and finely chopped the ginger, and finely chopped the mushrooms. Heated olive oil in a pot. Put a big thick slab of sourdough in the toaster oven. When the oil was very hot, dumped in the garlic, ginger, and mushrooms.<\/p>\n When they were deliciously fragrant, I threw in a mess of cream cheese and some of the bottled sauce. This all got hit with the immersion blender until it was smooth and creamy with a few bits of mushroom still visible.<\/p>\n At this point the sourdough was nicely toasted, so I put it on a plate and topped it with the cream cheese mixture.<\/p>\n the taste<\/span>: Incredible! Lush, with that ginger-mushroom medley I adore. I didn\u2019t need extra salt (although you might), given how many of the ingredients were premade, and I usually throw extra salt on everything. The only slight issue was that I found it very hard to judge how much cream cheese to use, so I ended up with at least 1 1\/2 times the amount I really needed to thickly coat the toast. That\u2019s okay though\u2013I really<\/span> did not mind basically eating some of the spread with my fingers. It is that good.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KITCHEN ADVENTURES: SPREAD THE LOVE. I had a ridiculously tasty lunch the other day. Anyway, ingredients (use the amount that seems right to you): sourdough bread, garlic, fresh ginger, crimini mushrooms (button and shiitake would also work), cream cheese, olive oil, and a bottled sesame-ginger sauce I bought at the Whole Foods corporate-charity sale. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n