i love mushrooms

a few weeks ago baldman dug a fire pit for us in the backyard. he got the inspiration to do this because of the movable fire pit we borrowed from a neighbor for our last party. since then, the spirit of david reid and his legendary fires has been egging my husband to do something a little more permanent. so he did this.



we've not spent a whole lot of time out there, but we've lit it a couple of times and really enjoyed it.

this weekend i got the inspiration to use the fire pit to grill some mushrooms. yummy! so for dinner tonight we had oven-baked baby potatoes with spices and olive oil, spring garden mix (some from our garden) with homemade rosemary and garlic vinaigrette topped with grilled yellow and red peppers (on sale at publix this week!), and grilled portobello mushrooms (and for baldman a morning star farms chick patty because he doesn't like mushrooms.*) we put the mushrooms/chick patty in between 2 slices of homemade bread and smeared rosemary aioli on it. here's a closeup of the veggies cooking.



oh, and the dinner was amazing!

*my husband is a weirdo. for the record, he also doesn't like ice cream or popcorn. the popcorn and ice cream i can generally partake in on my own with no problem. the mushroom thing is hard to avoid because i usually cook for the both of us. every once in a while i try to sneak it in a recipe where he can pick it out. but on a very rare occasion i've just got to go straight up portobello. yea!