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cure for rainy

CANADIAN PACIFIC Hotels: —
with our own Hotel Vancouver, The
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Empress have a great promotion
going on now until March 3] — the
Rain Festival,

By Edena Sheldon

Serves 8,
To cook (he mussels:

cleaned and washed
4%e 175 mb) white wine
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 bay leaf
1 branch fresh thyme

3 Ib, (1.5 KX) fresh mussels, shells

% tsp. (1 mi) cracked white pep-

season

additional 10 sninutes, uncovervd,
Strain’ soup, discarding — solids,
Ketum soup to pot (which has been
wiped clean), Add the creams and the
coconut milk, Heat soup through over
gentle heat, uncovered, about 10-42
mninutes, Add the niussels to the soup
during final 5-6 minutes of heating, so
that they are warned through as well,

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Corner of Edgemont Bivd, & Queens 983-9330

We reserve the right to lint quantities, Prices In effect Wed. Feb, 8, to Tuos. Fob. 14, 1098

Contributing Writer Have individual sourdough "serv:

ing bowls” hot and ready to fill, Ladel
hot soup into bread bowls, dividing
mussels evenly among the servings.
Top each bread bow! with a heated
bread lid, set askew, Tuck ina sprig af
fresh thyme as garnish. Serve at once,

Beurre manié; Combine equil
amounts of softened buuter and four to
for a paste, Used to thicken soups.
When adding to hot soup, drop in |
Thsp. (5 mL) at a time, whisking
smooth after each addition,

To prepure the edible sourdough
bread bowls:

Slice the tops (lo use as lids) off
each sourdough mini-bread. Hollow
out each bread, leaving a 3/4" (2 cm) |
wall all around, and making sure there
are no holes, Preheat over to 350°F
(80°C), Place bread bowls and lids

percorns

Ge. (1.5 1) cold water

Place all ingredients into a lange
stainless steel or enameled stockpot,
Cover. and cook over medium feat
About 4-6 minutes until mussels open,
Discard any which remain closed,

Strain the liquid) (mussel stock)
through a fine mesh sieve or cheese
cloth to remove solids and any possible
grit, You should have 6c. (1.5 L) stock,

When mussels are cool enough to
handle, remove the meat from. the
shells and set aside. Discard shells,

‘To prepare the soup:

2 Thsp. (3) mil.) butter

1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced

1 large white onion, peeled and
thinly sliced

2c. (500 mL) sliced celery

2-3 tsp. (10-15 mL) curry powder
(to taste)

% c. (125 mL) white wine

6c. (1.5 L) reserved mussel stock

4 Tbsp. (60 mL) beurre manié (*
see note below)

2c. (5 L) whipping cream

1350 mi can coconut milk

Sprigs fresh thyme, as garnish

8 mini round sourdough loaves,
each 170 g

Sauté the fennel, onion and celery
in the butter until sofiened and translu-
cent, without coloring. Add the curry
powder, stir, and cook [-2 minutes
until bubbly; stirring.

Add the wine and reserved stock.
Bring to a gentle boil, reduce heat to a
simmer, and cook soup over medium
heat about 15 minutes, Add the beurre
manié, bit by bit, to thicken soup. Cook

With our own average of [500 mm
of rain yearly in Vancouver, we learn to
make the most of it, But weather or not
— our Mowers ure blooming, the bulbs
have sent up their shoots, there’s snow
on our mountain tops, and we all own
half'a dozen umbrellas,

As for “singing in the rin’, lor
some great rainy day songs (selected
from CP Hotels’ list of over 30), phone
PR Director Nancie Hall at 443-1808
for a copy that includes Singing in the
Rain (Gene Kelly), The Rain in Spain
(Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews),
Rain (Madonna), Come Rain or Come
Shine (Frank Sinatra), Hot Toddy (Julie
London, and / Can't Stand the Rain
(The Commitments),

As for food to warm the soul and
tummy, the hotels are featuring Chill

Chaser. menus to “wet'? the appetite.
Hearty comforting soups, stews, cur-

fies and casseroles, Hot Toddies in the
lounges, and pet slugs as souvenirs to
take home!

CP chefs shared two great recipes
with me for this feature, Put on

’, Sinatra’s A Garden in the Rain, prepare
one of these heart-warming soups for
-. the family, and stay in.
.. Hotel Vancouver’s Curried
Mussel Soup with Coconut
Milk

Executive’ Chef Robert LeCrom
serves this curried mussel soup in indi-
vidual hot loaves of sourdough breads
— making for a unique (and simple!)

* presentation.

_ > Have the individual breads hol-
lowed out and waiting — ready to pop
into the oven and heat through while
the soup is simmering.

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