I often hear people tell of owning, but never making anything out of, the Millenium Cookbooks. I find both the first and the second ones very lovely, but it's true, I don't make a lot out of them. But it's also true that unless I'm really thinking hard on it or working on a project (like VeganMoFo or my World Vegetarian project last year, for example), I often just make stuff up as I go along and refer to recipes for inspiration and then close the book.
But when I was looking in the first Millenium Cookbook this weekend, inspired by my recent purchase of 1 lb of chanterelles for $10 (if you have ever bought chanterelles, or even more, tasted chanterelles, you know this is a deal), and I remembered a soup that featured them. Apparently I made this soup in October of '03, writing "Yum!" in my margin notes. I did remember that Yum, but what I forgot is that this yummy soup also features lobster mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, both of which I'm pretty sure I saw at the market and neither of which I bought. A call to Jess: "Is the wednesday market still on?" No. Another call an hour later: "New Seasons has Maitakes -- what are they like?" Woodsy* So I came to the conclusion that I was just going to stick with the chanterelles and roll with it.
I made the lower fat version cause I had tofu and not cashews, but I had a taste of the "tofu cream" on its own, and it's pretty subtle and awesome, I think. So I'm excited about this soup. I also used celery instead of celery root, not because I don't have a huge gnarly celery root in my fridge as we speak, but because I'm saving that for AA's booty project (see a post or so ago).
The soup...it lacks a certain something something, and that something is lobster mushroom. Those have a pretty intense flavor that I'm missing here. So I added a little more sea salt and a couple of secret spices, and voila, I'm in bisque heaven.
*Jess is in fact very articulate and doesn't reply in one word sentences.
2 comments:
haha!!
I feel the need to be very articulate now, which will probably not happen, but I'm honored to be mentioned and to receive the call. the mushroom bat phone?
anywhoo, I wanted to say that I have made 3-4 recipes from the artful vegan, so someone else has. The peanut butter white chocolate mousse is heav-en-ly. I've only made one savoury dish though.
oh yeah - didn't I feed you key lime avocado pie once that didn't really set? that was from artful..
that was a very good pie!
i want to make the chanterelle chana dal from artful now that i have chana dal, but now i'm out of chanterelles!
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