Uncle John's and Grandma Bobber's Stuffed Mushrooms

More mushrooms! When you find a bag of 30+ mushrooms on sale for $1 (as we did recently), you may need to make UBY soup and Uncle John's and Grandma Bobber's stuffed mushrooms. Forgive the unorthodox directions and measurements. Instead of getting frustrated, consider it a new cooking experience... It's like coloring outside the lines, or modern music. Just go with it.



INGREDIENTS
• 10 large-ish mushrooms
• 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• a bit of green onion (3-4 onions), finely chopped
• a bit of red onion, finely chopped
• (more on what constitutes "a bit" below)
• 1.5 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 large pinch of oregeno
• some spinach
• some bread crumbs
• some parmesan cheese (2 tablespoons? 1/4 cup?)
• (again, more on what constitutes "some" below)
• 125 grams of cream cheese (sorry, I live in Canada! Google "125 grams" and you should get a conversion)

DIRECTIONS
• wash the mushrooms
• take out stems of mushrooms carefully, set tops aside
• finely chop stems
• add to stems chopped green onion (about 2/3 as much as stems), chopped red onion (about 1/3 as much as stems), and two chopped garlic cloves
• NOTE: we just kind of played it by ear w/ regards to the different elements of the stuffing; that's why the amounts are so non-descript. You are the chef... you are responsible here for getting desirable proportions! Remember: Anyone can cook.
• fry all of this in 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil, until garlic is starting to turn yellow (i.e., it is a little cooked; about 5-10 minutes)
• while frying, season with a big pinch of oregeno
• remove from heat, add lots of spinach (about 1/2 as much as everything else together)
• let cool somewhat
• thicken with bread crumbs (1 tablespoon?)
• add 2 tablespoons (or so) of parmesan
• add 125 grams of cream cheese
• mix it all up
• in the meantime, you should have pre-heated the oven to 350 degrees (F); you should also have put the mushroom tops topside-down in a pammed pan (not a cookie sheet... there may be some juices, so you'll want to keep them confined).
• put the stuff in the mushroom tops
• cook in the oven at 350 degrees (F) for 20 minutes
• we ate them when they were just starting to turn brown on the top in some places... some pictures we saw online had them all poofed up... probably depends on your proportions in the cream-cheese mix
• Eat. We used a fork and knife.