Homemade Mushroom Zoup!

So I may or may not have received some grief over the holiday season that I wasn't posting to my blog - and even concern arisen that Logan may not be being fed. Well, we all appreciate the concern, Logan perhaps more than myself, but not to worry everyone has been fed.

That being said here we are New Year and new recipe just for all you worriers.

Homemade Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:
300g or 2 cups fresh mushrooms - cleaned and chopped finely
1 tbsp olive oil
3 cloves garlic - chopped
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 - 2 bay leaf
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 cup chicken or vegetable stock
1 tbsp flour dissolved in 1 tbsp water
Salt to taste
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
Dash of nutmeg
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Fresh parsley or thyme for garnish

Directions:
1. Heat olive oil in a sauce pan. Add butter and lightly sauté garlic on medium heat.
2. Add in mushrooms, thyme, bay leaf and Worcestershire sauce. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, or until the moisture from the mushrooms disappears.
3. Add in chicken broth. Stir occasionally until broth boils, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
4 Add diluted flour in, and stir constantly (while simmering) until the mixture thickens. Season with salt and nutmeg. Taste and adjust seasoning.
5. Finally, add milk and heavy cream, and bring to a simmer. Turn heat off.
6. Serve hot in your soup bowl. Add freshly ground black pepper. Garnish with fresh parsley or thyme if you have them on hand.

I did make some slight changes to this recipe from Season with Spice. Mainly I added more garlic, used white and brown mushrooms, a little extra Worcestershire, and of course took out the bay leafs before serving.

 

Oh and one other change ...for some God-for-saken reason swear that the recipe called for over a pound of mushrooms when I was at the store. So........ I came home with a jumbo jumbo box of mushrooms, you know the size - the Sam's Club, Costco I dare you to eat all of me in a 24-hour period size. Well, I came home with him and a bag of brown mushrooms. Oops! So should I come home with a forest of mushrooms again I would recommend doubling the liquid in this recipe, but in case you are brighter than me and make it with 2 cups it requires I imagine the amount of liquid is just fine!

Even with a few extra shrooms this soup was AWESOME. We didn't have any left which was a huge disappointment to Logan who said at the table "I may just eat this all night," before I told him the awful news that he couldn't. 

Would I Make it Again: Yes DEFINITELY!
Noming Score: 4.5/5