Souper Sunday Series: Cream of Mushroom Soup

There is a fungus among us! Mushrooms are one of my favorite things to cook with. My wife used to hate them but she has started to like them over the years. As long as they are Baby Bella, Katie is good with Fungi. In the second part of my Souper Sunday Series I decided to make homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup. After searching the web for a good recipe, I found that Chef John (from Foodwishes) had a nice recipe on his site. Chef John has not lead me wrong before so I decided to go with his recipe. As always it did not disappoint!

If this picture does not totally excite you, I suggest you stop reading now!

The recipe starts with 2 pounds of Mushrooms sweating out with some butter for a good 15-20 minutes. Adding a good pinch of salt allows the release of all that water in the mushrooms.

They will start to sautee and caramelize, the smell is amazing

Be sure to check out the full recipe over at Food Wishes!

Eventually after the soup simmered for an hour, you put it in a food processor and really mix things up.

All in all the soup took about 2 hours to make and it turned out really nice. We saved extra mushrooms from the sweating phase on the side to garnish, along with some fresh thyme.

Our soup meal was completed with a juicy cheese burger from the grill!