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I am experiencing some deja vu here as I thought there was a soup thread where we were discussing soup varities...:confused:
Anyway, I want to eat more soup and have been fiddling with a few different kinds but I am interested in ya'll's favorite soups.
Tonight (and last night) we are eating ground beef & veal soup with potatoes, cabbage, onion, and chard.
simplyred
12/12/06, 09:27pm
Tomato soup! You can do so much with it. My favorite is with a little shredded cheese and fritos. I also like to add celery and black olives to it.
Eeew....
Never been a fan...not entirely sure why, either.
simplyred
12/12/06, 10:33pm
Eeew....
Never been a fan...not entirely sure why, either.
That's kinda how I feel about cabbage.
SouthernN'Proud
12/12/06, 10:43pm
I eat the following soups:
Chicken and rice
Chili
Beef stew
I ain't big on soups. Probably why I'm big. Now could one of y'all pass me the red meat?
highwayman
12/12/06, 10:54pm
I ain't big on soups. Probably why I'm big. Now could one of y'all pass me the red meat?
Mooooo
Corn chowder, preferably with crab and/or shrimp
Butterbean soup with smoked hog jowl
Split pea soup with ham
I have a killer recipe for corn and shrimp chowder if anybody wants.
I eat the following soups:
Chicken and rice
Chili
Beef stew
I ain't big on soups. Probably why I'm big. Now could one of y'all pass me the red meat?
Probably why you don't know:
1. Chili with or without (beans if you don't know) is not soup. It is, however, an art form (probably it's own food group too).
2. Stew is not soup.
I like broccoli and cheese (especially cheddar), tortilla, mexican meatball, potato, vegetable and tomato (with a grilled cheese sandwich, makes me feel six years old again). Plenty of others too, I'm a soup fan.
BeardofPants
12/13/06, 03:03am
french onion soup, or tomato & leek. Yum!
I love french onion!
Chic - What's mexican meatball?
Sharkster - I love a nice corn chowder! I'd love to try your recipe but it would have to be when Rob will not be joining me :(
Can I have your butterbean recipe?
SouthernN'Proud
12/13/06, 09:03am
Probably why you don't know:
1. Chili with or without (beans if you don't know) is not soup. It is, however, an art form (probably it's own food group too).
2. Stew is not soup.
They ain't salad...
Neither are sammiches or helicotpers, that don't make 'em soup. :P
I love french onion!
Chic - What's mexican meatball?
Albondigas Soup (http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blss48.htm)
Served with a cheese crisp.
Ooh, I forgot french onion too.
Thanks Chic! I think I'll make that soon substituting the cornmeal for matzo meal.
MrBishop
12/13/06, 09:52am
Chicken soup (ooh...exciting)
Red lentil and potato
Kale, potato & Garlic soup
Leak and potato soup
Vermicelli
...
I like soup, especially in the wintery months
simplyred
12/13/06, 02:18pm
french onion soup, or tomato & leek. Yum!
Oooooo I LOVE tomato & leek soup!
BeardofPants
12/13/06, 09:46pm
Trick with either of those soups is to make sure you sweat the onions/leeks for at least half an hour in an oil/butter mixture.
Gato_Solo
12/13/06, 11:17pm
New England Clam Chowder.
Thai hot and sour soup.
Cream of Broccoli
The soup my wife makes from scratch...I have no idea what its called, but its dayum good...
Sharkster - I love a nice corn chowder! I'd love to try your recipe but it would have to be when Rob will not be joining me :(
Can I have your butterbean recipe?
Sure, I'll bring them tomorrow and post 'em. :cool:
Cool beans!
I am excited! We went to one of them big bookstores whilst Christmas shopping for Rob's folks and they had a clearance on cookbooks! I got a soup & stew cookbook for $3.99 and a nice Indian food cookbook for $7.99.
I plan on making these stuffed potato frittery things (kinda like a fried potato samosa) and curried sweet potato soup on friday! :licklips:
As promised!
Corn Chowder
2 cups cubed, peeled potatoes
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
1 (15 oz.) can whole kernel corn, drained
1 (8 oz.) can cream-style corn
1 (12 oz.) can evaporated milk
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 slices fried bacon, crumbled
Combine potatoes, onion, and celery in a large saucepan. Add enough water to cover vegetables. Simmer for 20 minutes or until tender, drain. Return vegetables to saucepan.
Partially mash the potatoes with a fork. Add cream-style and whole kernel corn to potato mixture.
Bring mixture to a simmer. Add evaporated milk; mix well. Simmer for 5 minutes.
Add cayenne pepper and salt to mixture. Ladle chowder into soup bowls. Top with crumbled bacon.
You can serve this soup immediately, but for best results, prepare in advance (up to 24 hours) and refrigerate until needed. Reheat slowly before serving.
Professur
12/14/06, 07:57pm
Wrong recipe dude.
I'm sure he'll post the second one shortly...I did ask for this one though.
Shrimp Chowder
4 slices bacon, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 pound shrimp, headed (size doesn't matter - you're gonna chop 'em up anyway)
2 (7 oz.) cans minced clams (Snow's brand is good if they are available)
1 pint fresh undrained shucked oysters
1 (14.5 oz.) can whole potatoes, drained
1 (8 oz.) can corn, drained
3 cups half-and-half
1 teaspoon salt
Heat a soup pot over medium heat; add bacon. Fry bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes. Drain most of the drippings. Add onion, celery, and oysters. Cook, stirring, until onion is tender, about 5 minutes.
Peel dem shrimps, chop into bite-size pieces. Add shrimp to pot.
Add undrained clams, potatoes, corn, half-and-half and salt to the pot.
Heat chowder until hot but not boiling, about 15 minutes. Serve immediately, or for best results, cool and refrigerate for up to 24 hours to allow the flavors to blend. Reheat slowly before serving.
Tonks, if Unc wants to try this chowder and legumes are OK, maybe substitute the corn with some beans or lentils. :cool:
And the oysters can be omitted if squirming bivalves ain't yer kick.
Wrong recipe dude.I'm sure he'll post the second one shortly...I did ask for this one though.
Hey, I'm typin' as fast as I can. :p :D
Back in a minute with the butterbean soup recipe.
Hey Shark...i can't eat shrimp anymore. You ever sub crawfish tails in that soup?
Bean Soup
This is just a basic recipe that you can use with just about any kind of beans. I don't measure the ingredients, just toss in what looks about right and taste it as you go.
You can use smoked pork shank, short ribs, smoked ham hock, smoked hog jowl, fatback, back bacon, or whatever is on hand. Cook it in with the beans for 2-3 hours, or until the beans are tender. Saute in another pan some onion and garlic until clear and add to the beans with some salt, pepper, a smidgen of dry mustard and a pinch of parsley. If you want to serve over rice, mash up some beans to thicken.
You can cook some chopped carrot in with the beans, too.
Even if you're using shank, ribs, or ham hock, if you add a little hog jowl to the cooking beans, it renders down nicely and gives the soup a velvety texture.
Hey Shark...i can't eat shrimp anymore. You ever sub crawfish tails in that soup?
No, but it would probably work just fine . . . mudbugs, clams, crab, even a big handful of bay scallops. :licklips:
simplyred
12/15/06, 02:22am
I love shrimp and corn soup (which I have had subed with crawfish).
My dad makes this FANTASTIC soup he got out of an Italian cook book that is so filling. It's called bean and leek soup and is SO good. I'll have to track down the recipe. However, anytime you are messing with leeks be prepared for the MESS! Sand everywhere!
Sharky - your bean soup sounds very much like mine but I've never added ground mustard. I love to put the herb savory in my bean dishes, it really goes well with beans.
Roz - I've never had sand in my leeks before :confused:
That soup sounds yum though!
BeardofPants
12/15/06, 01:48pm
I love shrimp and corn soup (which I have had subed with crawfish).
My dad makes this FANTASTIC soup he got out of an Italian cook book that is so filling. It's called bean and leek soup and is SO good. I'll have to track down the recipe. However, anytime you are messing with leeks be prepared for the MESS! Sand everywhere!
:hmm: Sand? Mud maybe, but not sand. That soup sounds like the italian ribollata (sp?) - the BF makes that; the trick is to save up your old parmesan rinds and dump them in the stock mess when it's reducing - very yummy!
simplyred
12/15/06, 03:25pm
You know that gritty muddy stuff. Ok, Maybe sand wasn't an accurate discription, but in any case it's messy.
Curried sweet potato soup is currently cooking. Keep your fingers crossed.
Man! The petis we made to go with the soup are going to be sooooo good!
<---is excited
Turkey soup on Boxing day!
sooo reviving! Love the smell all morning ... lots of regular tastings as it progresses.
For one day ayear, even celery is a star!
Synopsis of dinner:
The soup came out great! We ended up adding a tad more curry as we like it spicy and probably a tad more salt then it called for - southern palate and all. The texture was great!
The petis were good! I need to season the potatoes more and let the potatoes dry out a tad more before stuffing with the lamb mixture. I also need to be wary of how much oil is being absorbed as I slightly burned one side of one batch.
Over all, a success night of new recipes.
simplyred
12/16/06, 01:24am
It sounds good. At first I couldn't imagine curry with sweet pots., but when you fully described the dinner it sound really tasty!
Yeah...I was a little intrigued because it was so different from any sweet potato soup I had tried before but it really was nice.
The petis (which I realize I didn't describe well) are these indian stuffed cakes which are basically like cajun meat pies but the with potato batter. You boil and mash potatoes plain (a little salt) and let them cool. Divide into 8-10 portions, flatten in your palm and put a scoop of fully cooked meat mixture, fold over the potatoes to make an enclosed patty, dip in beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs, chill in the fridge for an hour and then pan fry in shallow oil.
It was good! My meat mixture from the recipe was basically ground lamb, onions, green chilies, mint, cilantro, and garlic with a dash of salt and lemon juice.
ahhh! Indian food!
The National dish of England!
LOL! It's not so popular over here for some odd reason.
Tonight I am giving the cookbook another go with a cashew nut chicken with rice and then I'll make a saag recipe that I found online...it's been a long time since I was excited about cooking. Between this and the soup it's become fun again.
:)
you wanna ask Dev for some recipies!
over here you can get all the ghee and wotnot easy ... heh, we had this MD drive down from Manchester (hardly un-multicultural itself) and ring up asking for direction from the motorway ... he described where he was driving through as (exact words)
"Like Karachi"
i said, yup :grinyes: you are on the right track carry on to over the flyover , come on in till the lights take a right .... etc ...
Done well, Indian food is right up there with italian for me!
best, BB
I found a Persian market that has most of what I need - ghee and all and the cookbook is a great intro to Indian cuisine. I should pop over to PIL and see if Dev can relate some of her fav's.
Tonight was Balti butter chicken and gobi cauliflower with rice. It was damned good too! The girls actually ate the chicken and rice and liked it. I didn't give them any cauliflower because I deemed it spicy! :headbang:
BeardofPants
12/18/06, 07:37pm
Tonks? Foodwise you should hook up with Dev from PiL - she's made a whole bunch of really tasty sounding recipe suggestions over the years.
I keep meaning to pop over there...I should do it now...when is she usually on?
BeardofPants
12/18/06, 08:45pm
I'm not sure how often she's on - but if you PM her for recipe suggestions, I'm sure she'll oblige.
I started a thread :)
Thanks.
BeardofPants
12/18/06, 09:41pm
No probs - I noticed the indian theme and dev's always got more ethnic interesting stuff on the go, so I logically thought that you two should knock heads. ;) I PM'd her as well from another site that she posts at just in case she missed the thread.
:)
you wanna ask Dev for some recipies!
over here you can get all the ghee and wotnot easy ... heh, we had this MD drive down from Manchester (hardly un-multicultural itself) and ring up asking for direction from the motorway ... he described where he was driving through as (exact words)
"Like Karachi"
i said, yup :grinyes: you are on the right track carry on to over the flyover , come on in till the lights take a right .... etc ...
Done well, Indian food is right up there with italian for me!
best, BB
:bgpimp: :tomato: :toast:
Great minds ... or just lazy readers?
... i'm just off fer a nap ;)
Yes, BB...you were the reason I kept meaning to pop over there :D
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