Mushroom Soup

[cymrullewes]

1 small onion

Comments

[fatcook]

Yum!
Salted or unsalted butter?

[cymrullewes]

Salted. I don't buy sweet butter because most of the recipes that call for it also call for salt. I find the salt in the salted butter is generally the right amount.

[crossfire]

mmmm, duxelles. I am almost out, I do a big batch and keep it in the freezer.

[cymrullewes]

I'm actually guesstimating the amount of duxelles. I broke off a bit from the bag of frozen in the freezer. ;-) This batch was the last of a bag of dried shiitakes and ~huge~ button mushroom stems.

[crossfire]

Yeah, usually I just use my cleaver to hack off a chunk from the frozen block. Makes measuring kind of problematic. But it's not like you can put too much duxelles in stuff.

You know what I discovered recently? Put some in marinara sauce. Holy cow.

[cymrullewes]

I'm guessing you can use duxelles in any recipe where you might also use anchovy paste. We picked up a puttanesca sauce from the grocery store the other day that had olives instead of anchovies. So I finally got to try it. Not bad.