On 2020-04-28 9:16 a.m., Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> Here's the difference between us, Gary. (Nothing to do with Sheldon or
>> Julie's opinion). If it doesn't taste good as a soup all by itself, I
>> won't use it as the primary ingredient in gravy.
>
> Nothing wrong (to me) with the taste, Jill. I just don't
> like it made as plain soup. Very little texture - almost
> a puree which you like but I don't.
>
> As a gravy (with 1/4 can of milk), it's
> an excellent gravy. Even better is a mix of:
> -cream of mushroom and
> -cream of chicken
> They even sell a mix of the two in one can.
> Yes - that many people like it.
My mother used to occasionally cook things with a can of cream of
mushroom soup, usually pork chops. I didn't mind it until one day we
visited my mother's uncle's farm and I watched him slopping the pigs.
That pig slop turned me right off mushroom soup recipes. It also
diminished my interest in eating the soup. Years later I worked in a
camp where the cook made excellent soups and the day he did cream of
mushroom soup I was amazed that it could taste so good.
> You don't even like mushrooms.
> "Mushrooms really aren't my thing," said the Jill.
> So why do you even speak up about mushroom recipes?
My interest in mushrooms comes and goes. They were never a favourite
when I was young. For a number of years I really enjoyed sauteed
mushrooms with a steak and they were an essential component of a
skewered grilled vegetables. Over the last year or so my interest in
them has dropped right off. My wife gets them occasionally and serves
them to me, but I never buy them or cook them myself. I can't say that I
don't like them. I'm just not interested in them.