Food

The roppini and shiitake mushrooms looked good yesterday at Monterey market in Berkeley, but I finally settled on two giant portobellos.

There's always the question of what to do with them once you get them home.

Stir-fry with onion, olive oil, and finely ground Italian sausage.

Have a drink first, a classic martini please. Plymouth gin, a hiss each of dry vermouth and Pellegrino water. Spare the ostentatious shaking so often exhibited at steakhouses coast-to-coast, a poor form of performance art that dilutes the outcome.