Foie Gras and Truffle Soup

Once a year around the holiday season, a couple of my closest friends and I splurge and buy ½ pound of truffles and spend an evening preparing a truffle feast. Our other friends are dismayed by the extravagance, but after all, we probably spend less than if we went out to dinner at a French restaurant.

At one recent feast we set out to duplicate a foie gras and truffle soup I first ha