Bubba wrote:
> Made some soup today. (rainy day, here in Fl.) I needed to thicken it a
> bit but this was supposed to be a low cal soup so I didn't want to use a
> Beurre manie' , and I didn't think cornstarch would work well. My eye
> spied some dehydrated shitake' mushrooms I'd picked up a few weeks ago
> at the base commissary (for .99 an ounce, no less). I popped them in my
> spice grinder and reduced them to....well....dust, added them to the
> soup and....poof! Thickened soup! Great flavor and zippydeedooda for
> calories!

Virtually any dried veggie will accomplish the same thing. Beans, too.
Pulverize and add, whisking to mix.

Pastorio