If you are like me, you love your grandma. Grandmas rule. Grandmas make your favorite meal – all the time. Mac-n-Cheese? Yep. Lucky Charms? Yep. Chicken Pastry?(…It’s a Southern Chicken Noodle soup) Yep.
For me, My favorite was Mushroom Soup. Not the fancy kind… Campells Mushroom soup.
I Loved It. And she made it tirelessly. Special for me.
So here’s to you Grandma Eva Mae! Thanks for all the cans of soup. But, now that you are gone to heaven, I’m all on my own to cook myself healthy, delicious Mushroom soup.
Today, I’ll look for mushroom soup recipes and share them with you.
Let’s start with
Eva Mae’s Cream of Mushroom Soup:
- One can of Campbells
- One can of milk
Place ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir to mix. Serve hot with saltine crackers.
moving right over to OTHER SIDE of the continuum. Peg the Foodie meter at Thomas Keller. here is the mushroom soup prepared by Sasha’s Kitchen in Brooklyn
Thomas Keller’s Mushroom Soup from Ad Hoc at Home
- Canola oil
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 1 cup diced leeks
- 1 cup diced onion
- kosher salt
- 1 1.2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 small bunch of tuscan kale (cavolo nero)
- 1 1/4 pounds (2 or 3 large) yukon gold potatoes
- 1 sachet (1 bay leaf, three sprigs of thyme, 10 black peppercorns and 1 clove garlic)
- 2/3 lb hen of the woods or oyster mushrooms
- 1 1/2 T butter
- 1/4 cups minced shallots
- 1 T fresh thyme
- 8 cups homemade mushroom stock (Check out the Sasha’s Kitchen Link and this Video)
- freshly ground black pepper
- 5 to 6 T garlic puree (I used five)
- 1 to 2 T red wine vinegar (I used one)
- extra virgin olive oil
For the everyday cooks out there – we stop by Allrecipes.com for Cream of Mushroom Soup
Ingredients
- 5 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1 tablespoon sherry
Check out the link for the instructions – It’s not that hard and they say it’s ready in 50 minutes. It basically says to cook the mushrooms in the broth, then puree it (Could you use a hand mixer?), then add then, in another pan, whisk the melted butter and flour. Once that’s a good consistency add the other ingredients and the puree.
I think this might be the one I cook – Looks good and easy!
If you have favorite recipe, please share them in the comments~!!
