At the last foray for 2008 of our mushroom group SVMS I wanted to bring a hot soup. The weather had cooled and soup seemed to be the thing to bring. Being a mushroom club foray, wild mushrooms would have to be involved.

As a child I always hated sweet potatoes. They would invariably make their appearance around holidays, stuffed into a casserole dish, loaded with sugar and topped with marshmallows. I am not a big fan of sweets, never have been. last year my father made us a sweet potato pie that tasted more like a pumpkin pie. Hmm, I like cooking with pumpkins. Maybe a sweet potato based soup with chanterelles?

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