Back before it was bad I used to have soup once or twice a month. Now I’m up to around 3-4 soups a week, Mind you it’s not the low-soup content of cup-o-soup, I’ve started mixing my soups!!! Last night I binged on campbells chunky beef vegatable soup (large can) mixed with bean and bacon soup. I’m so scared, no soup hangovers the next morning either.
What is next? Alphabet soup mixed with some non-alphabet soup? Soon I’ll be mixing brands, making my own soup. AAAAAAGH!
Anyhoo time for the mindless poll.
What is your favorite soup?
I’d drop my pants for a shot of Alphabet soup in a second.
I make a killer vegetable beef soup. And for pure soup comfort - potato soup with swiss cheese <drool>
I’ve got a recipe for beef-barley-mushroom that I can’t wait to try - I’m so glad it’s getting cooler. Nothing like homemade soup and bread fresh from the bread machine.
I too have gotten into making my own soup. Including chopping time for veggies, it only takes about 20 minutes to make a great soup. Less if you can get your hands on Superior Touch Better Than Bouillon. I find myself buying carrots and celery every week just to make soup. I eye the leftovers, wondering how I can make soup out of them. I don’t even wait for the weather to cool off. 105 degrees out? Think I’ll have some soup! I don’t have a favoriteas it seems to change weekly. Chicken soup with matzoh balls, clam chowder, vegtable beef with wide egg noodles, French onion, muchroom, cream of broccoli, split pea, white beans and ham, leftover taco ingredients make a wonderful spicy soup with rice (just don’t use the lettuce and garnish with the cheese ). How can I pick just one?
Homemade soup is really easy to make, cheap (certainly compared to buying the canned stuff), and you have complete control over what goes into it. Less sodium and fewer bug parts, you know.
My favorite home-made soup is broccoli cheddar chowder. It’s the yummiest thing.
Just this week I did the soup-cycle. About once a month we have a roasting chicken for supper. I de-meat the bones and crack them to make stock with. The next night for supper we have a whole bunch of chicken soup with dumplings. The next night, I thicken the leftover soup into stew and add more veggies. The next night I put in enough rice to absorb the liquid and we have chicken and rice. That was last night. Yum!
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Hi, my name is Feynn, and I’m a soupaholic.
Back in the days when I was a swinging bachelor I would make a pot of beef and barley soup once and often twice a week. I had to make a whole pot because my other single friends would be drawn to the tempting aroma of that and the bread I baked every day. The soup never lasted that long.
Oh! I loooooove soup! I just got braces (At 20, um…that makes sense) and it hurts to eat cheese. Soup is my god. Campbell’s chicken and stars and alphabet veggie with beef broth are so dang good.
As far as home-made goes: My grandma makes a super-yummy potato soup, Mom makes a Zuppa Toscana that kicks Olive Garden’s ass, and Dad makes a bean soup that makes you just wanna fall over and die.
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And if I hear that kind of language again I’m washing your mouth out with soup! snip
Bullsht, Bullsht, Bullsh*t. Mmmmmm…Soup.
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I make a killer Minestrone. I use sweet Italian sausage instead of hamburger…mmmmmm…
This weekend I’m scheduled to make War Won Ton, which is also mighty good, if I DO say so myself.
I also make a great Salmon chowder, and I used to make turkey noodle soup, but since Mrs. B. learned to make chicken noodle with home-made noodles I gladly leave that one to her.
I suppose my favorite though is, purists avert your eyes please, Jambalaya. I make Jambalaya with extra stock so that it can be eaten as a thick soup, by request.
italian wedding soup is the best. mr zoot would eat this 6 nights a week if i would make it that often. i make a big cauldron of it, we eat all we want, and i freeze the rest. just don’t freeze it with the pasta in it, or when you thaw it out, the pasta will have absorbed all the broth and you will be:(!!
Split pea with ham. Simply the best. You could drop dead with happiness from eating it.
Jersey Gumbo. What do you get when you abandon all pretenses of authenticity and just go for the gumbo? You get Jersey Gumbo! Yummy, especially with my special cornbread.
I so love soup. Sometimes I eat it for breakfast, too.
My favorite is a tomato-based Tortilla soup from a local restaurant. This stuff is liquid silk… I crave it intensely all week long and every bite is better than the next. I’ve tried making it on my own, but it’s missing something that the one from the restaurant has that makes it so amazing.
Until then, Rosemary’s Thyme will continue getting a large chunk of my cash every week.
I make many homemade varieties that are to die for, most notably lentil, and green and yellow split pea, which are wonderful with plain yogurt stirred in.
For the slugs among us, I thought I would recommend a marvelous soup discovery that I just made – dry packaged soup mix that is out of this world. It’s called Bear Creek, and the variety I tried was potato. It’s creamy, good on the fat grams and orgasmically delicious. I just did a quick Google and see that it seems to be a brand that is sold primarily to restaurants, but is now available in grocery stores to the consumer. All you do is add water and heat for 10 minutes.
Another soupaholic checking in. Are you getting tired of salads and barbecue, too? As has been said, even if we’re still in warm weather,I’m starting to have some serious soup lust.
I think I’ll try my hand at French onion soup this Sunday, homemade stock and all. Mmmmm - with lots of melty cheese on top and crusty toast slices . . . drool.
Ooops! I forgot about a soup that I have not had in well over a year. <sigh> I made this discovery in Philadelphia, west Philly to be exact. There is a food cart out there that has Hot & Sour soup that makes me drool just thinking of it. No resturant in chinatown can make better (or any food cart), it’s thick, filled with things that I cannot identify, they ask if you want pork in it, it is hot and sour, it only cost $1.75!!!
Sadly I live far away from the cart, my work is just as far. My evil co-workers who are on the road all day enjoy telling me that they are getting soup from there. And they won’t bring me any
I would do evil things, scary evil, mind boggling scary evil things just for a spoon full.
I am fortunately free of the foul fetish that is soup addiction. MY mother never let me near the stuff and boxed my ears soundly if I gave so much as the slightest indication that I would like some soup. Instead she fed me nice, healthy fast food and microwavable pizzas. As a result, I had a terrible phobia of anything resembliing soup for years. In school, the other cajun children laughed at me because I refused to eat gumbo. Since then, however, I have come to terms with my soup phobia, I am able to eat whole bowls of gumbo at a time, and once, I even got up the nerve to eat a bowl of chicken soup. I felt extremely guilty and decadent the whole time and I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure my mother wasn’t coming. I still can’t look her in the face when she mentions chicken.