Crimini mushroom, thyme and rosemary soup

Just kidding with the recipe... I decided to experiment with my own thing :/  Shocking I'm sure!

Melt approximately 3 tbsp butter and 1T olive oil
Stir in crimini mushrooms, thyme, and rosemary until liquid evaporates
Add in pre-sauteed onions
Add in flour to coat
Add in a few ladles of vegetable stock
Transfer to stockpot
Add in a stockpot full of vegetable stock
Add in approximately 1 c of wine (I had malbec on hand)
Add in a parboiled potato (I boiled mine in the larger vat of vegetable stock while making mashed potatoes and borrowed one for the soup cause)
Add in rind from manchego cheese (Yes, save the rinds of manchego or parmesan for soup bases!)
Bring contents to boil
Reduce heat to simmer
Add salt to taste
Use potato masher to break up potato / thicken soup

Results: Most amazing soup ever!!!

Buttersquash soup

Adventures in saving soup!

I am in love with butternut squash soup.  Every time my coworker goes to ABP for lunch and returns back with a bowl of butternut squash or pumpkin soup, I find myself incapable of fighting against the power of the soup...and despite having brought lunch to save money, I end up finding my two little feet at the cash register of ABP paying for soup.

It is sad that I am usually too lazy to make soup myself.  Well, I finally took the effort to roast my butternut squash from my last two organic veggie batches and was proud of myself for being so motivated...I roasted the quash with a little olive oil, garlic, basalmic vinegar, and brown sugar... The squash itself was delicious, so I expected the soup to be as well.  I could not have been more wrong!  It was so sad!  As if I don't have more important things to think about, I have been driving myself nutty the last few days with trying to tinker with the soup until all items were in the perfect ratio...  On day 3, I have finally achieved success!

The final ingredients:

• 1 onion, caramelized with several cloves of garlic
• Chunked butternut squash, roasted with garlic, olive oil, basalmic vinegar, brown sugar, freshly ground peppercorn, and sea salt
• Reduced red wine
• Milk (I used soy)
• And the missing ingredients that finally made life oh so much better that I forgot about?
• Carrots!!!!!!!  Improved the texture dramatically
• Cumin
• Thyme
• Cinnamon
• 2T of butter

Finally...  perfection in a bowl!  Phew!