****Chorizo Shrooms, Peanut noodles and Cajun Chicken burgers

NOTE: start working on Garlic lover's pasta salad from Co-opt and also reworking the peanut noodles.
Appetizers:

Chorizo and goat cheese stuffed shrooms (see cookbook)
chorizo, goat cheese, mushrooms, balsamic vinegar, honey, breadcrumbs
Marinade (see recipes)
Toss shrooms in the marinade. Preheat oven to 375. Cook shrooms for 5-10 minutes while you saute the chorizo, garlic and stems. Let cool briefly, remove shrooms from oven. Mix chorizo and goat cheese with some bread crumbs and spoon into the mushrooms. Reduce the vinegar and honey while the mushrooms finish cooking (also cook the burgers- maybe in oven?)

Peanut noodles
dressing:
1/2 c peanut butter
1/4 (plus 1-2 TB to taste) soy sauce
sesame oil
2 TB (?) wt. wine or rice vinegar (maybe just one of each)
2 TB (?) lime juice
1/2 TB sriracha* (or red pepper flakes)
1-2 TB ginger, grated (or 1 tsp pwdr)
several cloves garlic
2 -3 tsp brown sugar or honey?
opt. 2 TB sesame seeds
water by the TB, to thin as necessary

for 3/4 lb noodles
sweet peppers
gr. onions, diced
carrots, shredded
cucumbers, julienne
Mix sauce together, cook noodles, toss with sauce and veggies! Serve chilled or warm.
Make this ahead.


Main dish:
Cajun Chicken burgers
Seasonings: 1/2- 1 tsp of each
blk pepper-paprika-garlic pwdr-onion pwdr-wt pepper-sea salt
fresh
1 TB fresh thyme
2 tsp oregano

TB (or so) spicy brown mustard
1/4 c green onions
1/4 c sweet peppers
several cloves garlic
some feta (to stuff inside)

Make burgers several hours ahead so all you need to do at the last minute is mushrooms and then cooking burgers while mushrooms finish up.


Ingredients from co-opt garlic pasta salad include: Garlic, peas, lemon juice, veganaise, parmesan cheese pieces, oregano and that's about it other than noodles.