Mushroomy...

Well today was much better than yesterday! An engineer came out and checked my boiler and it is totally fine so he was able to turn the gas back on! Yay! So to celebrate I decided I'd attempt to make some jam for the first time, as you do, this was Plum jam to make the most of them being on offer in Aldi. It looked like jam when I'd finished so hopefully it'll taste ok too. I guess only time will tell and I'll just have to wait and see what my family say when I test it out on them.

(I'll jazz up the jars a bit with labels and lid covers once it's cooled fully)

Tomorrow will bring the new lot of  Aldi's Super 6 Fruit & Veg offers and I'm keen to see what it brings this time but first I need to finish off the last of the current Super 6 and today it's Chestnut Mushrooms!

I must admit I often tend to use mushrooms as something to add into other dishes, like into a pasta sauce, or as a side with steak or on a cooked breakfast but I decided I'd try and make the mushrooms the main event if it were. I started thinking down the mushroom soup route and started having a look about at recipies. A lot were for cream of mushroom soup which I do really like but as I didn't have any cream and didn't want to buy any I had to keep searching. Eventually I came across a recipe without cream but it did have some ingredients I didn't have so I played around with what I had and came up with this:

Garlic Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

250g Mushrooms (I used chestnut but any should be fine)
500ml Stock (I used Chicken but Veg would also work)
50g Butter
3 Shallots - Sliced
2 Cloves of Garlic - Crushed
1/4-1/2 tsp Dried Thyme

Equipment:

Saucepan
Food Processor, Blender or Hand Blender.

Method:

1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the shallots and garlic. Cook for 4-5 minutes until the shallots have softened.
2. Add in the thyme, followed by the mushrooms and cook for another 3-4 minutes. 
3. Add the stock to the pan and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Take off the heat and either carefully pour into a food processor/blender or using your hand blender, blend until smooth. Season to taste.
5. Enjoy!

This isn't a very thick soup but I enjoyed it with some nice fresh white bread. :)

I hope you enjoy.

Em x