The Comper's Inn part 42

lomaxsylvia

Hi Tulip, glad you had a lovely lunch and a good time with your friends afterwards.

fire**fly

hiya Katie, sounds like you've had a great day :j

been googling some mushroom soup recipies softpad
& have used/seen most of them before prob same as you have,
but found this one & don't think/can't remember/not seen before & it looks easy to do :j
http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipeindex/r/wildmushsoup.htm

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Ingredients:

1/2 lemon
14 oz/400g mixed fresh wild mushrooms, cleaned
7 oz/200g button mushrooms, minced
3 shallots minced
½ stick /50g butter
3 ½ fl oz/100ml white wine
18 fl oz/500ml vegetable stock
1 clove of garlic, crushed
Salt and pepper
7 fl oz/200ml heavy cream or crême fraiche

Preparation:

• Squeeze the lemon over the mushrooms.
• Melt the butter in a deep saucepan, add the minced shallot and cook gently until translucent,
• approx 4 – 5 mins.
• Add the mushrooms,
• cover the pan and cook gently for 10 minutes until the mushrooms have given up all their juices.
• Add the wine, the stock and the garlic clove.
• Season lightly with a little salt and pepper.
• Boil gently for 10 minutes.
• Add the cream and cook for a further 10 minutes.
• Adjust the seasoning and serve in warmed bowls.

This soup can be made in advance and allowed to cool before covering and storing in the refrigerator.

To freeze, prepare the soup until the addition of the cream, allow to cool, remove the garlic and freeze.
Finish with cream when required.

Note: If fresh wild mushrooms are not available use dried.
To prepare; rinse the dried mushrooms in fast running cold water,
then soak in warm water for 20 minutes.
Proceed as for fresh mushrooms,
reserve the soaking water and add to the stock for extra flavour.


going to try this one myself at the weekend :j

lomaxsylvia

Thanks for the recipe firefly, will hang on to it.

sheils6

Hi everyone,

Hope you have all had a good day. We had another tiring one visiting some local towns. We spent a lot of time at Kidwelly Castle which was great fun to climb and explore! The weather wasn't like yesterday but it was fine for the time of year. We had a nice meal at a Beefeater so that DH could use the free steak voucher I won last week. I had salmon followed by Blueberry Cheese Cake
Hoping to go to St Davids tomorrow.

fire**fly

sounds all good sheils :j
been really strange weather here :eek:
glad it was keeping good for you :j:j

euronorris

Firefly, when entering the postal comps, can you do AIOE if they all have the same addresss (ie, all the Daily Star, Express, Sunday Express etc ones)?

fire**fly

hiya, far as I know daily star you send separate,
I always do,

same with daily express..
ie: taken from ness's postings..
You must send a separate postcard for each competition.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=63350990&postcount=1394

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=63365529&postcount=1418

there's a list on 1st page of postals which can go AIOE


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4673373

I always just send a separate p/card for the ones I want to enter

Miss_Cinnabon

Hi all, dont post in here often but so wish i had some booze in the house to calm my nerves, just had the ambulance out to my hubby as he had a anaphylactic shock, i have never seen him so ill

He had the same reaction on sunday morning and had to rush to hospital, was given steroids and antihistamine tabs but tonights was the worse i've seen him, cant stop shaking

fire**fly

wondering what everyone's opinion is on raising the limit from £1.53

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/63400903#Comment_63400903

thinking I agree but as it's a moneysavingsite what do the inners think?

euronorris

fire**fly wrote: »

hiya, far as I know daily star you send separate,
I always do,

same with daily express..
ie: taken from ness's postings..
You must send a separate postcard for each competition.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=63350990&postcount=1394

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=63365529&postcount=1418

there's a list on 1st page of postals which can go AIOE


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4673373

I always just send a separate p/card for the ones I want to enter

Ahh, thanks Firefly. And what a pity, but hey ho. Still gonna give them a go. Also realized there a lot more postal entry comps for fishing stuff, so going to give them a go too.