I couldn’t figure out how to make it all gray or the mushrooms all rubbery, but this was pretty good soup, anyway.
Fake Commercial Cream of Mushroom Soup
- mushrooms
- onions (I used Vidalia)
- butter or margarine
- flour
- milk
- thyme
- salt
Chop the mushrooms and onions and cook them in margarine (in a saucepan) until the onions are tender and the mushrooms are reduced. Add more margarine, if necessary (and when is it ever not necessary?) and stir in the flour. Cook for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Add the milk and thyme and bring to a simmer, stirring constantly, until the soup is thickened and glossy. Season to taste. I ground some pepper on top of mine.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character tries to recreate something commercial with unexpected results.
MA
Jane
September 21, 2016 at 8:27amOne birthday meal for Bruce, I managed to cook up a variety of Chinese dishes that all tasted as if purchased at the restaurant! The sauces, I find, are the devil to duplicate!
And afterward, when I decided to make that stirfry thing again, I couldn’t figure out which cookbook and recipe had been the secret bonus perfect one!
I still can’t! Darn it.
Marian Allen
September 21, 2016 at 9:42amOh, Jane, I’m cryin’ ovah heah! Like the poet says: Of all sad words of tongue or pen / The saddest, these: “Wha’d I put in?”
Joey
September 21, 2016 at 12:18pmRight on. I like to avoid all the -fiineeclose and -deerwaadizon and whatever else they put in processed food, much as possible. I use buttah though, and no thyme. I almost never buy vidalias. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I bought them all the time in Georgia…
Marian Allen
September 21, 2016 at 1:51pmLove them Vidalias!