My mother-in-law brought over Baby Bellas on Monday night (thank you Mom!). She had had them for a day or so and did not foresee using them in the near future so we got hand me down mushrooms.

However, hand me downs have gotten a bad rap in general, these were great.

My wife sautéed them with oil, garlic, white wine and a bit of black pepper. Some smoked sun-dried tomatoes tossed in and a salad on the side.

Deeeelicious.

With one small problem.

Bizarre Foods.

If you are not familiar with the show: basically this guy, Andrew Zimmern, drags a camera crew around to various countries and taste tests the indigenous local favorites. We are not talking Pasta in Italy. We are talking head cheese.

I am innocently sitting on the futon watching TV eating my delicious mushrooms and salad. I think you can see where this is heading…

Mr. Zimmern is in Trinidad trying cow skin soup, chicken foot soup, conch penis (raw no less), and ox heel soup.

My face pales, and I sit there with sautéed mushrooms on the end of my fork. Mushrooms with the texture that I imagine roughly equates to gelatinous cow skin pieces or ox heel. I close my eyes, still my stomach and think of relaxing on a beach in the sun with a nice cool breeze while I finish my delicious mushrooms.

The meal was awesome. The evening’s entertainment attempted to terrorize me into not completing it successfully.

Go chew on a testicle Mr. Zimmern. Just do not make me watch.