I was going to have pasta the night I made this to take a little break from cooking through the book, but Ewen wanted me to keep going. He was enjoying the recipes so far.

Trying to stay true to the recipe, I went to Queen Victoria Market in search of a specific mushroom: maitake. I hadn’t fully read the recipe and later realised I could have just increased the amount of the other two mushrooms instead. I didn’t find the maitake that day, so I subbed in oyster mushrooms on the advice of Queen’s Harvest, my favourite stall at the market.

Lo and behold, when I went back the following week, there it was! I snapped up some maitake and will keep an eye out for other recipes that use it.