This is a great base for people like me, who do not make cream soups very often. However, I did scale down both butter to 1/4 cup, added a medium fresh onion and 2 cloves of garlic. I also scaled down the flour (I don't like thick, cream soups) I also added about 1.5 cup of fresh roasted green chiles. Live in NM, so its widely available. If anyone can access anaheim chiles to roast or frozen Bueno chiles...lucky you. It makes a huge difference!

Reviewed On: Nov. 14, 2006