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Black Pepper and Thyme Gourgéres with Mystery Soup

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Black Pepper and Thyme Gourgéres with Mystery Soup

Black Pepper and Thyme Gourgéres is a wonderful light and airy appetizer I love to make. I was in the mood today for a savory quick and easy bread product to go along with a soup mix I had in the pantry. I think the soup was the motivation for the cheese puff but it could of been the other way around.

I got the recipe for the Gourgéres from the very excellent foodwishes.com website. Chef John is a very accomplished Chef and his short videos are terrific. If you want other recipe there is a search feature at the top. This basically a cheese puff made with the same process as a eclair or cream puff. Water salt, butter, whisk in the flour and cook for a few minutes. Whisk in a couple eggs, add the spice and cheese and scoop out the balls to bake. They come out hollow usually or very airy unless you go overboard on the cheese, which I usually do.

While the puffs are baking, I decide to take a stab at a package of soup I got from my Brother-In-Law, who travels to Finland frequently. I can't read a word on the package but fortunately there some pictures for us dummy's who don't read Norwegian. I'm hoping hansjoakim will help me out here to tell me this was great mushroom soup and not reindeer testicles. Either way it was delicious! I guessed at 2 cups water, simmer 5 minutes and add 2/3 cup of light cream.

So I had a great lunch and was going to share a photo of my Pomeranian, "Archie" enjoying his Gourgéres. He snapped it up and was gone before the focus locked, so no photo of Archie practicing his French.

Give these a try, they are delicious!

Eric

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LindyD

I'm hoping hansjoakim will help me out here to tell me this was great mushroom soup and not reindeer testicles. 

Never again shall I read one of your posts, Eric, without first swallowing any liquid beverage I just sipped.   My adult beverage is now all over my computer screen!

I've got to get control of myself, stop laughing, and get back to reading.

In a few minutes....

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SylviaH

that makes two of us!

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hansjoakim

Hi Eric. I've got good news and I've got bad news. Ehm. I'm not sure where to begin...

OK, the good news is that those puffs look great! Now, the bad news...

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audra36274

  That is too funny! Great lookin' dinner. Hope it fixed your cold right up!

Audra

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SylviaH

I bet I know what Hans is going to tell you! 

Nice looking cheese puffs, Eric!...I'll have tomato soup with mine!

Sylvia

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Mini Oven

It's the kind of mushroom... deep rich yellow in color like egg yolks.  Not the other eggs, Eric!  So you are safe.  I like hunting these in the Austrian woods, Dolly is also good at spotting them.  A delicacy!  I know them as Pfifferling oder Eierschwamm (Cantharellus cibarius)

Mini

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jleung

Those mushrooms on the package remind me of chanterelle mushrooms... and the first part of the word kanttarellikeitto looks a bit like chanterelle. Then again, I don't know any Norwegian  :P

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chouette22

Gougères as well! I actually made them a couple of weeks ago but never get around posting right away... Arent' they good?

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DonD

I have been collecting wild mushrooms as a hobby for over 20 years and I can confirm that the photo on the package shows a bunch of chanterelles. They are quite common in the US in summer and early fall.

Don

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ehanner

Thank you all for your tolerance of my sense of humor. The soup was fantastic considering it was from a dry powder mix.

The Gougeréres were also great. I like that every so often you get a concentration of spice. Very savory. And they are one of Archie's favorites!

chouette22: Yours look a little more refined. Mine have a rustic look from being dropped on the sheet:>)

Eric