Marinated Mushrooms for Everyone!

Before the Bar Mitzva the PT and Mrs. Balabusta spent some quality time together shopping for paper goods and other assorted expensive things at Sam's Club. I want to mention the admas nefesh involved on my part, it was a Monday night and the Packers were playing.

I want to start this story by saying everytime I come home from said Warehouse Store, The PT picks up something and says "What did you buy this for? We don't need this - And we certainly don't need this much of it?..." Then he goes on to explain how someday someone is going to name a brain disease after me and we will both be very famous.

The other thing he says when I get home is "Where are the Cheerios?" But that's another blog....

Back to my point, while I was buying 4 lbs can of tuna x 3, the PT came across a 4 lb jar of marinated mushrooms, right next to the pickles which can also glow in the dark. He said, and I quote here - "Look what I found."

I looked at the PT standing in the aisle at Sam's very proud of himself and looking very hopeful. Doing a quick computation on the cost:benefit ratio of having a conversation about mushrooms and that fact that I was missing the game already, I decided buying the mushrooms was probably a good idea.

Once the said mushrooms took up residence in the pantry, it was a struggle to decide what to do with them. Add to rice and bake? Kugelize it (you can make a kugel out of anything, its a scientific fact)? Feeling unmotivated I decided I can serve them on a relish tray with pickles and olives.

Which I do quite a lot now. So if any of you decide to drop by for a nosh and quick cup of tea, you will probably also be served marinated mushrooms, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood PT.