Baked Mushroom and Blue Cheese Appetizer

This appetizer is a rich and fulfilling appetizer best used with spreading with your favorite garlic toast or crackers.  The combination of the mushrooms, cream, and bleu cheese enables you, you cannot eat just one.  One important issue to remember, you just have to have fun.  Serve alongside a favorite steak recipe, salad and yes you have got it, a bold wonderful full bodied red wine.  Now we are having fun!

2 ounces of bottom mushrooms, washed stemmed and quartered

2 ounces Shitake mushroom, washed stemmed and quartered
2 ounces Portobello mushrooms, stemmed and cut into ½ inch squares
Salt and ground pepper to taste
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
1 cup of Madeira Wine – This can be stressful, looking online there are bottles that start at 19.99 and bottles all the way up to 650.00 and most likely even more than this.  Do not panic, the lower price bottle will work.  Not all of us have a spending budget for a 600.00 dollar bottle of wine.  Always always, just have fun within your budget!

1 cup of heavy cream

5 ounces of a Maytag Blue Cheese
2 tablespoons of minced fresh chives

Roast washed and drained mushrooms with salt, pepper, and granulated garlic on a sided cooked sheet lined with parchment paper.

On the stove in a medium saucepan cook the 1 cup Madeira Wine reducing to 1/3 cup.  Add cream and cook until cream and wine have been reduced to 2/3 cup.  Add mushroom, blue cheese, and serve warm with garlic toast or crackers.

Wonderful!  Enjoy!  Have a lot of fun!