Blog posts tagged with 'cocktail'

There are recipes that are meant to amaze and recipes that are meant to solve a taste problem. Mushroom sangria belongs to the second category, even if at first glance it seems to belong to the first. Anyone who has made sangria at home at least once knows the feeling well: a sangria that starts off well, fruity and easy to drink, and after three sips becomes flat, sweetish, monotonous. Something’s missing: that depth which in wine we call structure, in cooking we call umami, and in gastronomic mycology we simply call Porcini...