This is what he serves me...

This is a mushroom... maybe a king mushroom? I can't remember. All I know is that one minute, we're in the International Market looking for normal food, and the next minute, this appears in our basket.

Turns out, these are supposed to be meat substitutes (they are not). Dan sliced them and soaked them in tamari and mirin, and then he sautéed them. They tasted better than they look. Combined with stir fried vegetables and brown rice and quinoa, dinner turned out to be better than I thought it would be.

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