Super bowl? no, Souper Bowl!!!!

When I worked for Martha Stewart, I thought it was the greatest idea to do a Souper Bowl show right before the Super Bowl.  We would make all kinds of soup and it would be a blockbuster.  While I didn't quite get that idea past Martha...I was able to get some soup recipes into our Super Bowl show.  So I guess it was a win win for all. 

I love soup!  I love making homemade chicken soup from scratch.  I love vegetable soup. My all time favorite soup is Pea soup...but I am the only one in the family who loves it so I don't make it as often.  My daughter Grace loves broccoli cheese soup, so after I perfected a recipe, it became one of my faves too.  In fact, I think each of my children have their own fave soup recipe of mine.  Caroline really loves the Chicken Noodle that I make.    Gemma loves my tortilla soup.  Michael loves onion!  My daughter Rebecca's favorite is MUSHROOM SOUP.  It's one of the easiest and most satisfying to make that I wanted to share it with you.

• 8 ounces mixed mushrooms
• 1 medium onion
• 1 ounce butter
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 pint chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons flour
• ¹⁄₄ pint whole milk or heavy cream
• fresh ground salt & pepper

Directions

1. dice onion small.
2. clean and halve mushrooms.
3. saute onion in the butter and oil for 2 minutes.
4. add mushrooms for a further 4 minutes.
5. sprinkle flour into pan and stir well to remove lumps.
6. add half of the stock.
7. stir and scrape cooked flour off bottom until thickening.
8. add half the milk stirring all the time.
9. continue to add stock and milk in turn until all added.
10. adjust seasoning and add plenty of pepper.
11. simmer very gently for 20 minutes.
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