Comments on: Cooking Up A Storm

By: lightening

lightening — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:59:00 +0000

LS - what you do with it might depend on how you want to use it. I tend to use mine as a sauce when I’m cooking in the crockpot. So the mushroom flavour doesn’t end up being the main flavour. I wouldn’t enjoy it as a straight soup. If using as a straight soup I get the impression that the original recipe is designed to be a complete soup in itself if you enjoy that kind of thing.

My other thoughts are cream of chicken soup - you could add more chicken stock powder to the recipe and perhaps even some diced chicken. Or cream of celery soup is another one by adding celery (and perhaps some celery salt as well).

As I was making it I was thinking how much it smelt like a fairly plain white sauce. So you could add cheese and vegies for another variation. Might be a little bit strange as a soup - would probably be more of a casserole type dish I guess or used as a sauce over other meats.

If you’re a garlic lover - perhaps add some garlic. Mmmm… I’m just thinking garlic with a few prawns and you’d have a nice sauce to pour over steak. Not so frugal though. LOL.

Anyone got any other thoughts for the Cream of Anything soup?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:33:00 +0000

The cream of anything soup sounds nice but as we are not mushroom lovers, please can anyone give some hints of how else I can use this recipe?
Thanks LS

By: lightening

lightening — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:56:00 +0000

Madly Saving - I love the way the internet can bring people together with similar interests that geography has traditionally kept apart. Glad you enjoyed my blog. Hope we get the chance to get to know one another a little better. Do you have a blog of your own at all?

Kin - hope your cooking goes well. Mmm…I love pumpkin scones. Might pop over for a cuppa and scone ;-). I don’t make them often enough for how much I enjoy them (could be a good reason for that though - I eat them with HEAPS of butter, not so great for my weight loss efforts).

By: Kin

Kin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:05:00 +0000

Wow, I wish I could cook that much in a day. I have a busy day planned today with a Bacon & Egg Pie, Fried Rice, Pumpkin Scones and pikelets.

I’ll definitely be adding that crumpet recipe to next week’s cook up though.

Well done!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:30:00 +0000

Madly Saving again - just finished reading through the rest of your blog - thoroughly enjoyed it! I can’t believe how similar our interests are!!

By: lightening

lightening — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:04:00 +0000

Hi Cheryl and Madly Saving. I will have to keep an eye out for you on the forums. I think my name comes up as Jodi(SA) on the forums.

Thanks for reading. I agree, Paula is awesome. I can’t believe the number of things she makes from scratch. Not sure if I could ever reach her calibre but I’m making an effort to head in that direction. I can’t believe how much satisfaction there is in making something from scratch. It’s not just about the money is it - so many benefits from personal satisfaction to reducing nasty preservatives etc from our diet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:56:00 +0000

Madly Saving from SS site - love your site! You have been a very busy girl and interestingly tried the things I have been wanting to try. Good to hear they worked out. Look forward to visiting your blog often.

By: lowincomelady

lowincomelady — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:45:00 +0000

I’m a member of simplesavings too, I’m known as Cheryl R (NSW) there. I saw that thread by Paula on the forum, what an amazing lady! I still have to go through the thread and write down a few recipes! Cheers Cheryl.