An Ode To Granny | Cream Of Morel Mushroom Soup

When I was close ten, I would sometimes pass the nighttime at Granny's on a weekend night, but because. When I mean value of Granny's house, I mean value of going to bed inwards the "Pink Room" (vs. the blueish room, that was for boys...) smelling similar Dove soap, putting on 1 of her silk nighttime gowns too using a silk pillow case. She ever used a silk pillow representative because she said it kept her pilus looking nice. When nosotros got upwards inwards the morning, she would brand homemade biscuit donuts that nosotros drizzled inwards glaze or scroll inwards cinnamon too sugar.

I am non for sure why this is the retentiveness that I larn dorsum to when I mean value of her. Maybe because it is 1 of those times that it was but the ii of us at her house. Most of my fourth dimension at that spot was spent amongst my brother, sis or our cousins - nosotros ever had fun at Granny's. I tin hardly ever recall her getting mad, I don't recall many rules. There were ever enough of cookies inwards the cookie tins, push-pops inwards the freezer too boxes of macaroni too cheese inwards the pantry. We loved playing dress-up amongst her body that was filled amongst my Mom's too Aunt's quondam dresses. At Christmas fourth dimension she would allow us pose upwards the tree a few weeks earlier it was necessary (which was real exiting) too decorate it notwithstanding nosotros liked, too thus long every bit her collection of strawberry ornaments were on display.

I mean value my appreciation for the changing seasons stemmed from Granny. She loved seeing the vibrant leaves of fall, or the origin blooming magnolia trees inwards the spring. When she drove us around town she would ever indicate out a favorite burning bush that was inwards total flaming on Franklin Street or a cherry tree covered inwards blossoms... that she couldn't hold off to larn her hands on when it was total of fruit. She loved the changing of the seasons.

As most anyone tin tell you, Granny loved no other flavor to a greater extent than than "Mushroom Season." For those of us inwards the know, "Mushroom Season" refers to Morel Mushroom Season. For a few prime number weeks but every bit Spring begins to slightly warm (usually around April) too afterward a actually adept rain, mushroom hunters larn inwards search of the prized Morel that grows wild. Granny was a Morel fanatic, to tell the least. She had a dyad of fabulous cowboy boots too a particular stick that she deemed her hunting gear. Every saltation y'all could live on for sure that she'd live on out checking her metro spots. She had a peachy trained oculus for hunting them.

After a long battle, our Granny passed away final week. Though nosotros are sorry she's no longer going to live on amongst us, nosotros are all relieved that she is no longer spending her days inwards pain. In accolade of Granny, I made this Cream of Morel Soup to portion amongst my identify unit of measurement this weekend every bit nosotros celebrated her life.

Though it is just the contrary of "Mushroom Season" correct now, but I was able to detect dehydrated morels at the Brookside Market. They were a piffling pricey, but a piffling goes a long agency inwards this creamy soup.

Cream of Morel Mushroom Soup
serves 4, 2 loving cup servings

1 loving cup of dehydrated morel mushrooms
iv tablespoons of butter
1/2 of a pocket-sized white onions, minced diced

2 cups of infant portobello mushrooms, minced
1/4 loving cup of flour
vi cups of one-half too half
body of body of water salt
cracked pepper
1 tablespoon of fresh thyme
adept olive oil

In a pocket-sized bowl, rehydrate morel mushrooms past times soaking them inwards warm H2O for xxx minutes.

In a sauce pan, gear upwards onion inwards butter on medium for 4-5 minutes. Add minced portobellos too gear upwards for 4-5 minutes until they laid out to soften.

Drain morels from H2O too while inwards one-half lengthwise. Add them to the portobello too onion, cooking on medium for 1-2 minutes. Add flour too gear upwards for 1-2 minutes until it is hot too bubbly. Add half-and-half. Stir until smooth. Bring to a simmer. Add fresh thyme too flavor amongst tabular array salt too pepper to taste.

Serve drizzled amongst actually adept olive oil.