Serves: 6
Total Calories: 91

1 ounce dried wild mushrooms
1 cup hot water
2 medium potatoes
2 cups vegetable broth
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion minced
1/2 shallot minced
2 stalks celery including leaves, chopped
12 ounces white mushrooms roughly chopped
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme (or 1 scant tsp dried)
1 1/2 cups rice milk
1/2 cup sake (or Madeira or dry sherry)
salt and pepper to taste
chopped chives (optional but great) or Parisien Bonnes Herbes
cracker (optional)

Soak wild mushrooms in hot water for half an hour. Remove from water, wringing out by hand, and set aside in a bowl. Strain the soaking water into another bowl to use for cook - ing potatoes. Put chopped potatoes (peeled if thick-skinned potato like Idaho, but not if Yukon or Red), vegetable broth, and reserved mushroom-soaking water in a pot, cover, bring to a simmer, and cook until potatoes are tender. Meanwhile, in large soup pot, combine olive oil, onion, shallot, and celery and cook over medium heat. Sauté until onion becomes slightly translucent. Add white mushrooms, wild mushrooms, and sea salt. Cook covered about 5 min - utes. Then add thyme. Cook 5 more minutes. Then add 1 cup of the rice milk. Cover, reduce heat to low, and sim - mer 5 more minutes. Remove from heat and stir in sake, and several grindings of fresh pepper. Puree mushroom mixture in food processor, and then return to soup pot. Puree potatoes and their cooking broth in food processor and add to pureed mushroom mixture. Add last 1/2 cup rice milk (or more for a thinner soup) and heat over medium heat. Adjust salt and pepper, and serve piping hot, sprinkled on top with pretty chopped chives or crumbled crackers.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 6
Total Calories: 91
Calories from Fat: 40

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