Ah, first soup of the cold/flu season. I still have chicken stock in the freezer now, and looking forward to making more batches. I also found unexpectedly a stash of beef marrow bones in our deep freezer (yeah buddy beef stock *high-fives somebody*). But here we go at Cafe Heather today: Creamy Chicken-Rice-Cremini Soup: Saute some diced onion, celery, and a couple cloves of garlic in a large pot with a hefty amount of butter. Or just saute whatever you have in your fridge that offers a bit of pungent goodness with the richness that mushrooms and cream offer. But I like butter. Butter is awesome. I dont care if it goes in or out of style, if I have to choose my Last Meal on this planet before I head off into the sunset, I have to have butter with it, in it, on it. So anyway... Wipe off the mushrooms with a damp paper towel. I hold each mushroom by the stem and give a good rubbing, so if the stem falls off, no biggie, since its going in the soup, too. Dont rinse mushrooms...they get rubbery. Ew. Add to the pot. I had leftover shredded chicken from the roast. Basically, I picked that bird clean of all the meat around the joints, wings, back, etc., since its so easy to miss them and throw them out. NO! Theyre perfect for this dish. Throw that all in too. Saute, season with salt/pepper to taste (dont forget to taste, smell, look at the colors, all throughout...and use different spoons for tasting please). I dumped the rest of the box of rice we had in the cabinet in to the pot (2 cups? No idea. It looked about right.), let all the grains soak up the buttery goodness, then BOOM I hit the pot with chicken stock until its a little more soupy and turned that heat up to HIGH, baby. Bring it to boil, baby! Then simmer it covered until the rice is COOKED, baby! Oh, and finally add the heavy cream and heat enough before setting aside to serve or to stash. Dont boil cream. Or milk. It curdles. Not that its bad, but doesnt give the creamy-soup consistency we look for. Add fresh herbs of your choice to serve, break off a hunk of crusty bread to put on the side of the bowl, and WOO HOO this is so delicious!
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:10:57 +0000
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