Roasted cream of mushroom soup

Mushrooms are some of my favorite things in the world and I love soup in general.  I had a hankering for cream of mushroom soup.  I don't care if the temperature outside is hot, I'll still drink hot coffee and tea and eat hot soup.  Using my Bruce Lee approach in picking out the best features of the good looking recipes, I saw leeks and shiitake mushrooms as pretty interesting additions to the base of the soup.  Trader Joe's has frozen leeks which is great to use in a pinch.  I chopped up my mushrooms into larger chunks than usual I think, I think thinner slices might or a small dice might actually be better for the soup.  Overall it was good, thought I thought the shiitakes were pretty overwhelming- they just have a such a strong taste compared to other mushrooms that it was all I tasted and the chewy texture takes away from the creaminess of the soup I think.  I'll have to make a mushroom stock next time since it seems I can't just put cooked criminis and button mushrooms in water and make soup because the flavor is really weak. Next time.

For some reason I can't upload modified pics, it only uploads them what they originally looked like.  Oh well.