MUSHROOM SOUP RECIPES

Personally I'm crazy about soups, particularly a mushroom soup. Soups are so easy to cook, so delicious, and you can get a whole meal in one. Healthy-Slow-Food-MADE-FAST is our theme.

Mushroom Soup Recipes makes one of my favourite soups. It's low in calories (depending on how much cream you add!), high in nutrition, particularly that elusive anti-oxidant Selenium that has been shown to be a wonder mineral (and quite hard to get in your diet), and the essential B-complex vitamins.

If you have read other pages on this site, you will know that I hate exactly prescribed recipes. This one is no different. Add a bit of this and that.

Mushrooms go particularly well with chicken, so if you aren't a vegetarian, I suggest you start by making up our easy chicken bones stock. The alternative is chicken cubes that have nasty chemical preservatives and that really defeats the whole purpose of making anti-cancer mushroom soup recipes. Just buy a packet soup if you're planning to add cubes!

CHICKEN BONES bouillon ... proven powerful anti-arthritic properties.

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BASIC INGREDIENTS

• One large potato.
• A large punnet of mushrooms.
• A chopped onion.
• 1 cup of milk, or double-thick cream, if you like it creamy and disgustingly delicious.

OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS

• Carrot
• Celery
• Garlic
• Any herbs (like a bayleaf, thyme, parsley) and spices you like, but remember that the mushroom flavour is delicate. Don't drown it.
• A dash of Sherry?

TIME TO COOK...

1. To about a litre of your hot, strained Chicken bones broth add the chopped potato and carrot and bayleaf. Simmer gently for twenty minutes.
2. Near the end add the optional chopped stick of celery.
3. Meanwhile, lightly fry the chopped onion in a pat of butter and, when it's translucent, add the clove of garlic and the chopped mushrooms, stirring continuously on high heat for two or three minutes. (You're going to liquidise so don't waste your time chopping finely.)
4. Scoop the mushrooms and all the butter into the potato-chicken-bones bouillon mix, boil for another ten minutes.
5. Remove the bayleaf and add a slosh of port (or sherry) if your cholesterol is high and you don't have gout.
CHOLESTEROL ALCOHOL ...


6. Partially liquidise to the consistency you like, and bring back to the boil.
7. Add the milk (cream), salt and pepper, your favourite herbs and another clove of garlic (or three!) and simmer until you cannot resist the smell any longer! About one minute.
8. Sprinkle with a litte parsley benefits.
PARSLEY BENEFITS ...

NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF MUSHROOMS

Vitamin E, Selenium and prostate cancer

Now this is important. Vitamin E comes in several different forms. Those most commonly researched are called alpha- and gamma-tocopherol.

Most supplements of vitamin E contain only alpha-tocopherol (from wheat germ oil). PLEASE check the bottle. Why? Research (the SELECT trial) shows that if you are taking ONLY alpha-tocopherol supplements then you don't get the protection that selenium gives against prostate cancer. It's the gamma-tocopherol that gives protection, and the alpha-vitamin E blocks the gamma sites.

Once again, nature in her wisdom mixes these minerals and vitamins up in the right mix. Don't expect to get all your selenium and vitamin E out of a bottle, get them from foods rich in these supplements. Foods like mushrooms! Eat a good diet, from as wide a source of foods as possible. AVOCADO FAT has a good mix of alpha and gamma vitamin E. Selenium too.

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