Mushroom Soup or Mushroom Gravy

With the fear of Thanksgiving and Christmas amongst other eating frenzy celebrations we are confronted with, I came up with this simple recipe that can be used as a soup or gravy....

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons olive oil

2 tsp sea salt

2 tsp pepper

6 large peeled and mined shallots

1/2 large garlic - take out the cloves, peel, and mince

1 - 12 to 16 oz container of beef, chicken or vegetable stock

4 cups mushrooms

1 large white or sweet potato, peeled and cubed

garnish :  cilantro or parsley

1 large soup pan

1 mixer

In the soup pan, place the olive oil and bring it to a med high heat, drop in shallots, dry seasoning, and garlic - brown.

Reduce heat to med and place remaining ingredients - except for the garnish.  When boiling, reduce heat to simmer.  Test potato and when soft - remove mixture from heat.

Mix the ingredients until liquid form - put back on simmer heat until thick.  

To serve as soup, garnish as suggested.

As a gravy - to thicken if needed, add a tablespoon of arrowroot.

Emjoy!