Re: Cream of Mushroom soup - and a request for a recipe

[Guest guest]

I love being able to cream things! BTW, does anyone have a good recipe for bean

dip? It seems like something that would be great in the Vitamix.

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> I've been making the following " cream " of mushroom soup. Ever since I made the

" Celery & Almond Soup " recipe from the cookbook, I had been fantasizing about

this and it came out even better than I imagined:

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> Ingredients:

> - small container of shitake mushrooms

> - two handfuls of almonds

> - 1/4 cup of mirin

> - 2 tbsp of soy sauce

> - water

> - peeled ginger

> - A few slices of onion

> - splash of olive oil

> - thyme

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> I sauteed the onion in the olive oil. Then feeling bad about wasting an entire

pan for so little onion, I threw in the cleaned mushrooms and some of the

ginger.

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> I blanched the almonds. (Boil water, toss almonds in for exactly one minute,

rinse under cold water and pop them out of their skins. Toss the skin and keep

the almonds)

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> I set aside a few mushrooms to use as a garnish and put everything else into

the blender, including about three cups of water.

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> Turn the Vitamix on and quickly raise it to " high " . In a few minutes, you wind

up with a hot, rich, creamy mushroom soup! Garnish with the mushrooms.

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