Last night my wife and I made this amazing cream of mushroom soup. It wasn’t cheap; it took $30 worth of dried morels, $15 of fresh shiitakes, and $7 of fresh creminis, plus chicken broth, onions, garlic, thyme, sage, and cream. But ohhhhh, it is fantastic. And it’ll yield two dinners for two plus lunch for me (having the rest of it tonight with sauteed asparagus on toast rounds), so it’s really not so bad if you look at it that way.