Mushroom soup search

I love soup especially in the winter. My favourite kind is mushroom, but I have never had a recipe. Last year I relied on some high-end canned thing from grocerygateway.com, but I can't afford to spend $3 a bowl when I could make something from scratch and get several meals out of it. Besides, living alone, I have to keep telling myself that cooking is fun.

Today I found a recipe for Madeira Mushroom and Leek Soup, which I will try this week. It's in Rose Reisman's Light Cooking. Hmm, I don't know about that. Mushroom soup ought to taste decadent, so we'll see how it sticks.

So does anyone else have a nice mushroom soup recipe they would be willing to share?

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Venus is visible, too, unfortunately it doesn't show up in the photographs.