Your description of "Gräslök" sounds like what we call "chive(s)" Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 srund@svl.ems.lmco.com LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 > ---------- > From: Kristofer Blennow[SMTP:kristofer@blennow.se] > Reply To: Kristofer Blennow > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:29 PM > To: tucker > Cc: chile-heads@globalgarden.com > Subject: [CH] OT: Wine/mushroom sauce - mild! [Was] Becoming a CH > > On 4 Mar 99, tucker wrote: > > > Mmmm. I think this would be a real winner at my house. Any way we > > could get a recipe??? > > > > at last learned how to make a professional > > > wine/mushroom gravy for salmon. > > Squeezing my brain before I forget it... > > "Lidö" Wine/Mushroom Fish Sauce (serves 6) > > 3 dl Dry white wine > 150 g Champignons > 1 Fish bouillon cube > 1 Yellow onion > 1 Garlic clove > 1/2 dl "Gräslök" (note below) > 1/2 dl Parsley > 1 tablespoon Wheat flour > 100g Roomtemp butter > 1.5 dl Full fat cream > > All ingredients should be finely chopped. Mix wine, champignons, > onion, garlic and the bouillon cube and reduce over medium heat to > about half the volume. Mix 1 tablespoon flour with 1 tablespoon > butter to an even paste and whip it into the reduced fond. This far > the sauce can be prepared, and wait for the rest of the meal. > > Just before serving, reheat the fond, take it off the heat, and add > 100g butter, whipping well. Add the parsley and the "gräslök". Whip > the cream very lightly (it should get a "soda pop" feel, not "whipped > cream"), and ever so gently turn it into the sauce. At this stage, do > not boil the sauce eccessively, just heat it up quickly and serve. If > needed taste it off with some salt and lemon pepper (was not needed > when we did it). > > Note - I don't know the English name for "gräslök". It is an onion > plant, that grows like grass, thin (2-3 mm) green tubular straws, > with a mild, aromatic taste. Traditional summer spice here in Sweden, > we always keep it in our gardens for our pickled herring lunches etc. > > Thoughts: Will test to finish it off with some tarragon, and a bit of > champagne to fizz it up... > > Enjoy and improvise, > Kristofer > > > >