Paris Mushroom Soup

Now that the holidays are behind, us Nana and I are looking forward to getting back on the routine of making the "official" recipe of the week again. 

The mushroom soup recipe was not only an appropriate choice for the cold weather we are experiencing, but it was not as time consuming as we would have thought  - which has helped us to ease back into the routine of French Fridays.

Nana's Try at Paris Mushroom Soup

Per Nana:

Dorie's recipe for mushroom soup was quite interesting.

This was a very simple recipe to make. 

 

I finally found some good looking mushrooms at our

local Giant "supermarche", as well as all the other ingredients.

The preparation of the vegetables

took hardly any time.

        The aroma from the onions and garlic cooking was incredible.   

  

 After adding the chicken broth,

the soup cooked for only about 25 minutes.

I used my food processor to puree the soup, and that worked well.

    

                            

   After making the "salad" to serve, I thought

 the presentation looked quite elegant.

  The end result was tasty and good.

  Great for a cold winter day.

Tricia's Try :

The was a pleasant surprise after a very busy week. 

I do not like mushrooms and my sons are not fans either.

Luckily my husband enjoys them

so he was ready and waiting by the pot.

I was surprised by two things with this dish. 

The first was how amazing it continued to smell

 throughout the cooking session.  I knew the beginnings

of onion and garlic would be wonderful, but I

 was shocked to find that I still loved the aroma after

all the mushrooms went in. 

And I do NOT care for mushrooms. 

I was literally wafting the steam in my direction

because it aroma was so great as I stirred it. 

 When the wine went in was the best aroma yet.

The second thing that surprised me was how

the mushrooms create their own liquid when cooked. 

 Again, since I am not a fan....I have had

 very little experience cooking with mushrooms

and I was quite incredulous when I read the recipe. 

 Even being told what was going to happen...I still managed to be suprised when all of this liquid emerged in the pot.  I took several pictures and even my boys thought it was "really cool" when I told them about it later.

I used the immersion blender Nana gave me previously

 as a gift and I very much liked the texture I ended up with .

Overall a fun experience - great recipe which

turned out to the letter as Dorie's instructions indicated.  

 While Nana and I missed trading samples this

week due to the weather, my husband offered his critique. 

 He enjoyed the soup and was surprised that it was not

 more "spicy" or onion tasting...considering how much onion went in. 

 He very much enjoyed the mushroom taste and had a 2nd bowl to be sure.

 

I had to give it a try and was surprised that it was not all that bad. 

 For mushroom soup :) 

 It was fabulous.

Nana and I are looking forward to trying the

 other soup recipes before the spring thaw.

Update :   My 14 year old came home from wrestling after the soup was cooked and already in the fridge. 

 He declared that the kitchen smelled AMAZING and insisted on trying whatever I just made.   He LOVED it.  And we love French Fridays.