BVC Eats: Intense fresh mushroom soup

dried shiitake mushrooms as found in Asian grocery stores

This is a thick, rich soup like canned mushroom soup on gourmand steroids. More of everything. More flavor, more butter, more cream, more mushrooms!

For dried mushrooms, I use the dried shiitake mushrooms found in Asian food stores, but sometimes I also dry white mushrooms myself. Tips for drying white mushrooms:

put a scant handful of white mushrooms in an open cardboard box or their original foam carton
put the open container in the vege...