Portobello mushrooms with cream cheese

It's been a long time but yes we are not dead, here we are, back with another easy, tasty, wonderfully easy, very easy recipe:

Portobello mushrooms with cream cheese

The pic above shows you how "portobello mushrooms" look like (maybe the name of these mushrooms is different in your country).

And the pic below shows the bottom of a portobello mushroom.



This is the way I sliced them:



I chopped onion and cooked it with some canola oil for about 5 minutes.



And then I cooked the mushroom. It was done so fast (2 minutes?) that I did not have time to take a pic.

But the final result, with some cream cheese and salad is here:

Now let me explain why we have not been blogging.

First of all, we are getting married in three weeks. In a way we are already married but I'll explain that later.

The thing is: we have all these invitations to send out. And before we can send the invitations out, we need to fold the enveloppe, we need to put into the enveloppe: the map, the invitation, an engraving especially designed for the occasion, the tickets for the reception, the wedding registry card. Moni designed all this by herself, this is why I have been cooking more than her. But this is what marriage is about: When I have time I cook, when I don't she cooks, and when we are both busy there are restaurants, fast food, junk food and all that. But that should be the exception, not the rule. Unfortunately, with my previous couples I couldn't see it, and of course I failed (there were other reasons, of course).

But before you can send out all these invitations, you need a "service list", which means: the names and addresses of all your guests. It is better if you also have their phone numbers (home, office, mobile, etc) and their e-mail addresses. This is something I have been doing. And you also have to work, cook, do the dishes (we do not have a dish washer), make the bed, etc.

We have also been having gatherings with our friends to give them the invitations, and going to bed late.

Pretty rough days, uh? But cooking easy, tasty portobello mushrooms is a good therapy. Try it!

Rice Pyramids with Cream Cheese

Before I met Moni I did not even know that this delicious dish existed. This is my first time cooking it because Moni usually makes the rice pyramids. She loves them. She was supposed to help me but... she was struggling with an important event. Anyway all the credit goes to her because it is her recipe, the pyramid mold is hers (she brought it from Japan) and because... I love her.

You need a plastic triangular mold like the one in the pictures (my hand is to show the actual size of the mold):





The mold has a top and a bottom that you use to press the rice and make it compact:




You also need a grill (broiler) and grill tongs (sorry, this picture was taken with my cell phone and has less resolution):



Ingredients
1 cup sushi rice
1/2 cream cheese bar

Directions

Cook the rice (we just got this rice cooker as a wedding present and we love it, no more rice burnt with a thing like this):




1. Fill the mold with rice and cream cheese using a tablespoon. There has to be a layer of rice at the bottom and a layer of rice at the top. The cream cheese goes in the middle.

2. Press the contents with the mold top. Try to get as much rice as you can into the mold and press with the top as hard as possible to get a very compact rice pyramid (mine were not so compact and they can fall apart while you grill them).

3. Press down the moving bottom of the mold to help get the rice pyramid out of the mold.



If it is sticky, use a teaspoon and push gently. Make as many rice pyramids as you want. With a cup of rice you can make up to 8 rice pyramids.

4. Put the pyramids on the grill using low heat. Use tongs to constantly move the pyramids so that all the borders get cooked.



Yum.

Moni and Cobi loved them. Look at Cobi asking for more



:-)

Welcome to Couple Cooking

Hi there!

We are Moni and Mozko and we love cooking together.

We have a busy life like many of you and could be buying fast food or eating every day at the restaurant of the corner but instead we decided to give a try at cooking and have found it a rewarding experience.

One of our goals is to motivate couples to cook together. We also think that this world would be a better place if political opponents would change their weapons for kitchen utensils. Can you imagine Bin Laden cooking with George W. Bush?