I made this dish this way only because I didn’t feel like taking a trip to the supermarket. It was bacon, garlic, collards, and the polypore, sauteed and then cooked down with red wine and mushroom stock in which I poached some chicken thighs. It was fair. It was uninspired.
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Hard to believe something with bacon could be uninspired.
That’s what I thought, too, until I tasted it.