New Covent Garden Wild Mushroom Soup

Covent Garden Soups are a source of easy cooking for me - bang them in a pan, turn up the heat and they're ready within 5-10 minutes. There is a massive array of flavours, from pea and ham to asparagus, to (apparently) Wild Mushroom. I love mushrooms, I'd just like to make that clear. I have a slight intolerance to them, but I'll quite happily take a tablet if it means I can include some mushroom in my life. So, due to my dependence on these soups for a quick meal, I thought all my dreams had come true when I spotted the Wild Mushroom flavour of the soup. Unfortunately I was sorely disappointed. Although the combination of white wine and ...

Recently I wrote about a Covent Garden soup which my wife had bought and left in the fridge: for those who read that review, you'll be pleased to know that my wife was ok about it and just gave her the excuse to go out and buy some more, stopping off at various clothes shops on the way, spending my hard earned cash. That'll teach me a lesson! Last night she cooked dinner, and presented me with another bowl of soup. This one was the wild Mushroom flavour. In my bowl was a mirky brown colour liquid which contained small grey/brown flecks, these turned out to be small pieces of mushroom. The liquid was very runny and slopped off my spoon very easily, ...