THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS LINKY PARTY #13 (SOUP) and Hummus Mushroom & Potato Soup

THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS Linky Party #13

The Theme is: Soup

This is one of my first ever totally homemade soups. I've only made two or three other soup recipes, as I am not a huge fan of soup. Living in Southern California there are not many cold nights here and for me to eat soup is has to be really really cold (I think today it was atleast 75+ degrees outside, so NOT soup weather). This soup was of course delicious, and that's why I am blogging about it! It was like WOW DELICIOUS, it tasted so good and I am so glad I made it.

It was kinda of funny, never in a million years would I have cut out a recipe for soup, let-alone a soup called Mushroom-Hummus. I don't like Hummus and I hate mushrooms. My twins like mushrooms, which is one of the only reasons we have them in the house. But, while I was reading the Food Network Magazine I came across this recipe and I just knew we had Hummus (that no one liked) in the refrigerator and we had left-over mushrooms from my girls Mushroom Egg Salad recipe, we made a few days ago. And thus was born an idea to get rid of that left over stuff without going to the store and buying anything else. I almost came up short on the white wine (as I do not drink wine either, but I had one of those individual sparkling wines someone must of left in my refrigerator). The goal is to clean out our refrigerator and pantry to help with this challenge of being on a new-low grocery budget. This is just one of those GREAT steps to savings money, using ingredients you have on hand.

Hummus Mushroom & Potato Soup
recipe has many many changes for our need/taste and to use what we had on hand but was adapted from another recipe seen in Food Network magazine called Jay's Mushroom-Hummus Soup

2 tbsp olive oil
2-4 tbsp diced onions
1 cup of diced fresh mushrooms
kosher salt and pepper
2 tsp minced garlic
2 tbsp white white (we only had sparkling white wine and it worked perfect)
6 cups chicken broth (on hand I had chicken stock and chicken broth, so I mixed them)
4 to 6 potatoes (we peeled them, diced them, then microwaved them for 4 to 6 minutes before adding them in to the soup)
2 tsp Grandma's Salt (or any all-season salt)
3/4 cup hummus
2 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp parsley
scoop of sour cream

Heat the olive oil in a medium sauce pan over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until soft. Add the mushrooms and season with salt and pepper, cook for approx 10 minutes until they are nice and done but not burnt. Add the garlic and cook for a minute or two. Add the wine and cook for 2 minutes, scraping up any browned bits. (By this time your diced potatoes should be done in the microwave too) Add the diced potatoes, broth and season-salt; simmer for about 30 minutes.

Stir in the hummus into the soup. Then transfer 1/2 of the soup mixture into a blender and puree (remove cap to let steam escape), then return to the sauce pan and simmer for about 15 more minutes. Remove from heat, stir in the lemon juice and parsley. Ladle the soup into bowls and top with sour cream.

(Directions taken from the original recipe from Food Network... I have no idea why it's 3 minutes of this, 1 minute of this and so on and so on. But whatever it does, it made the soup turn out extra extra delicious!)

This post also linked to: Meatless Monday, Just Another Meatless Monday Tuesdays at the Table, Tasty Tuesday Delicious Dishes and Hearth and Soul Hop

Just read about the 5th annual Virtual Soup Swap over at A Southern Fairytale; I think I will drop off some cans today and can't wait to participate in 2012! Awesome Idea!!!

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This is a BLOG HOP PARTY so please hop
around and read other SOUP recipes!

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This week's theme is: Soup

This is your chance to share your FAVORITE SOUP RECIPE!

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1. Please stick to the THEME and only link up recipes that go with our theme for the week. 

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3. Also we'd love for you to hop around and visit the other link-ups! After all it's a BLOG PARTY and it's not fun for everyone linking up if you don't hop around and say Hello!!!


PLEASE follow the simple rules, so everyone can enjoy the linky party! If you forget to link back or add a button IN YOUR post you will receive a gentle reminder to add it, before we delete your post! THANKS A MILLION!

This Week's Cravings Past & Future Recipe Links

January 10 - Pizza - Pizza - Pizza

January 17 - Pies (Dessert or Dinner)

January 24 - Soup

January 31 - Potluck Item for Super Bowl Sunday

February 7 - Valentine's Cookie & Treats

February 14 - Potato and/or Sweet Potato Recipes

This is a BLOG HOP PARTY so please hop around

and read some GREAT recipes!