Green Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

Chicken, Beef, or Vegetable Stock or Broth (2 cans from the grocery store will do)
Spinach
Mushrooms (any that you like – I used Shiitake in this soup)
Onion (or green onion – Scallions: use about six or eight)
Garlic
Butter
Parsley
Bay Leaf
Dill
Spices
Rice
Tkemali (Georgian Sauce) *

How to Make it:

Pour about five or six cups of water into a pot.
Set on Medium Heat
Add two cans of broth or four to six cups of stock
Throw in an onion (or half of a large one)
Throw in a bay leaf
Take about six strands of parsley, tie them together with another strand and throw that in.
(Parsley Flakes will work – but nothing beats the fresh stuff)
Throw in about six handfulls of fresh spinach
Salt, Pepper, Spices (add your of choice of spices, but salt and pepper is enough)
Throw in a handfull of rice (I used white rice in here)
Bring to a boil and turn the heat down a bit

Meanwhile: In a medium frying pan:

Chop up some onion and throw onto a pre-heated pan with a piece of butter in it.
Mix it up, salt, pepper.
Ladle a bit of the soup thats being cooked out of the pot into the pan. This will make the onions soft and tasty.
Add some chopped parsley.
Throw in a handfull of spinach.
Add the mushrooms.
Add another half ladle.
Cover for a few minutes.
Sprinkle some dill.
Stir, Mix a couple times until the stuff is golden and brownish, yet moist and juicy.  Most, but not all of the soupy stuff should be absorbed into the vegies by now. 

Your kitchen area should be filling up with awesome smells right about now.

Now throw all that into the soup.

Mix, stir.  Taste, add salt, pepper, whatever else you think will be good.

I thought some Tkemali would be great so I added a teaspoon of that.  

Its a Georgian Sauce (made in Bulgaria) made of green plums, sugar, coriander, spices and other stuff.  Its all natural, its pretty potent and strong so just a bit will do. 
The Tkemali added a wonderful little mistery flavor to the soup.

Serve hot or cold, with a toasty baguette or a slice of black german bread.