Simple Creamy Mushroom Soup

It's spring but it's also April and that means there are showers, lot's of them and it put me in the mood for soup. Whenever I make soup I tend to see what veggies need using up in my fridge and today it was huge field mushrooms that had begun to turn slightly slimy. I also had a pot of cream leftover from my cheesy leeks that I had made as part of Sunday dinner and a gorgeous little jar of black truffle paste.

Any Mushrooms dried/fresh
chopped onion
Minced Garlic
Beef stock
Double Cream
Truffle Paste
Black Pepper
Oil/Butter

Just chop and gently saute the onions and garlic in the butter and oil, when they are soft add your mushrooms and truffle paste, fry for around 5 min's before adding your stock, cream and pepper. Gently cook until the earthy mushroom flavours have penetrated the cream and then give it a rough blitz with a hand blender leaving nice chunks of mushroom.


I have to admit that although this soup was delicious I could only manage a tiny bowl as it was very rich and could imagine it working well as a pasta sauce.


I used my boyfriends nephew's Toy Story bowl because I like it, so there you go, make of it what you will.

BBQ Weather

As the weather has been so lovely I thought it would be a great idea to have a BBQ at one of the many large parks in Brighton and invite a load of friends so that what I did. I went to the butchers and bought Cumberland sausages, burgers, pork steaks, chicken drumsticks and thighs and some ribs. I marinated the ribs, chicken and pork in a spicy home made marinade that had fresh onion and garlic, cayenne powder, 1 tsp of brown sugar, nutmeg, allspice, pinch of salt and was the blended with orange juice, olive oil, soy sauce and the juice of a lime. I put all the chicken, ribs and pork in a separate container's and put them in the fridge to marinade for a few hours as that was all the time I had, it would have been much better if it was left over night!
I also made some garlic field mushrooms which are the really big ones, I just mixed crushed garlic and parsley with butter and spread generous amounts on the mushrooms and baked them in the oven in tin foil for 20Min's and I would finish them on the BBQ to crisp them up a bit. I made a potato salad with new potato's, mayonnaise and spring onion and also made a big salad to go with it as well as bread rolls and baps of course!
Everything turned out very well and we all had a lovely day, I ended up cooking everything and the food didn't last long! I hope to have many more with Lot's of other lovely food to tell you about.