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Soup Day!
By: jpcher Date: December 29, 2020, 2:44 pm
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DD#1 and I are having fun in the kitchen today making 3
different kinds of soups. The butternut squash soup is already
done (break time, DD#1 is bringing some to DD#2's salon).
We have all the cornish hen bones (from our xmas dinner) and
other yummy stuff* simmering in a pot for a delicious broth to
make wild rice soup with (leftover cornish hen meat to mix in).
Next up is lemon rice soup.
I really wanted to make split pea soup but the DDs poo-pooed
that idea ::). I'll have to make a batch for myself some time
soon. ;D
What is your favorite soup to make? Would you care to share your
recipes?
*Yummy stuff = cornish hen bones (and skin), scrapings from the
roasting pan, celery, onion, garlic, broccoli, rosemary, sage,
thyme, and an orange. All covered with water. I'll let this
simmer for a good two hours, then strain and let the broth chill
overnight so that I can skim the fat off of the top.
Tomorrow I'll make a box of wild rice using the broth instead of
water. Add in 1 can of water chestnuts and a bunch of pea pods.
I'll make a gravy type mixture starting with a roux and using
the broth, and the juice from an orange. Mix it all together
along with the meat pre-picked off of the bones . . . a once a
year soup.
I'm hungry . . . Is it tomorrow yet? ;D
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Re: Soup Day!
By: nuku Date: December 29, 2020, 3:57 pm
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I love soup! Both to make & to eat. If we can expand to stews,
my favorites are:
Chili (of all sorts - I have an entire cookbook of vegetarian
chili recipes)
French onion soup
Tortilla soup
Bean soups of all types
Tomato soup - best with grilled cheese or quesadillas
Lentil soup
Minestrone
This is not a complete list. 😁
#Post#: 62128--------------------------------------------------
Re: Soup Day!
By: kckgirl Date: December 29, 2020, 4:06 pm
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My favorites: Potato (with or without cheese), broccoli (with or
without cheese), and hamburger soup (pretty much clean out the
fridge or open a few cans of veggies to go in it along with a
potato).
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Re: Soup Day!
By: STiG Date: December 29, 2020, 6:29 pm
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My regular soup rotation:
Potato leek soup - no cream in the recipe I pulled off the
internet, so it is a little healthier
Pea soup - whenever I have a ham bone, with whole and split
peas, usually some carrots, one grated potato and parsnips, if I
have them.
Turkey soup - I usually use wild rice in it, along with carrots
and maybe beans or corn or peas. I have made it with regular
rice and intend to make it with some noodles when I get going on
it again
Vegetable soup - hamburger with beef broth and various
vegetables, often a bag of mixed peas, carrots, corn, beans,
lima beans plus a can of diced tomatoes, juice and all
French onion soup
And I make butternut squash soup for myself. Nobody else in the
house will eat it.
I also make chili regularly.
We get a side of beef about twice a year or so and I use the
bones to make beef bone broth in the instant pot, refrigerate it
overnight to remove the fat and freeze whatever I'm not using
relatively quickly.
I do the same with bird carcasses - make bone broth in the
instant pot, adding celery and onion while cooking any bones.
The same with my ham bones.
I add any other seasonings while I'm cooking the soup.
I'll use leftover gravy, with some associated meat, with peas,
corn, carrots, beans, etc. to make a really thick mixture and
then make pot pies with it, which I freeze unbaked and pull out
when I'm looking for a fuss free dinner, though they do take
quite a while to bake from frozen.
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Re: Soup Day!
By: Rho Date: December 29, 2020, 11:57 pm
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Once or twice a winter I make turkey, vegetable soup in the slow
cooker.
Very simple--buy turkey legs to put in slowcooker. Add bag of
frozen vegtables. Add rice while remembering Mom said never to
put uncooked rice into soup. Throw in an onion, add water but
not to top of pot so it doesn't spill onto counter. Plug in and
wait.
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Re: Soup Day!
By: Aleko Date: December 30, 2020, 2:14 am
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Christmas dinner was just for me, DH and MIL, so I served us a
guinea fowl roasted with fat bacon over the breast, stuffed with
chopped chestnuts, morel mushrooms and bacon with just a few
bashed juniper and myrtle berries, served with gravy of its own
juices and a dash of sherry, and bread sauce (made with plenty
of cloves and mace). Also I roasted the bird siting on a
'trivet' of sliced onions. There was plenty of small bits of
meat left on the carcass, so next day I picked them all off. I
chopped the meat, the onions and the stuffing up small, and made
a soup adding chicken stock and the remains of the sauce from a
dish of pork cheeks braised in sherry, thickening it just a bit
with the remains of the bread sauce. Though I say so myself,
that was an epic soup.
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Re: Soup Day!
By: bridalviolet Date: December 30, 2020, 7:59 am
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Red lentil soup for us today. Red lentils, crushed tomatoes,
chicken broth, onion and celery. Serve with a dollop of sour
cream and a sprinkling of dill. Yummmmmmm!
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Re: Soup Day!
By: VorFemme Date: December 30, 2020, 9:39 am
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It's called soup on the recipe - but by the time we get through
with the changes I've made to the recipe, it's more of a stew.
Leftover roast beef scraps, potatoes cut in pieces, tomato
paste, canned tomatoes, chopped onion, marjoram, time, and cumin
- enough water & two beef bouillon cubes to fill the slow cooker
crock and cook until the potatoes are done. I have texture
issues, so I run the tomatoes & most of the onion through the
blender, add a carrot or two (whether the roast was cooked with
them or not), add some small pieces of onion, and adjust the
seasonings until "it smells good".
VorGuy likes how fast it's ready when we have leftover roast
potatoes that are already cooked - starting with raw potatoes
takes a lot longer. He stayed up to eat a bowl before going to
bed, though. I had something else for dinner when the soup
wasn't done.
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Re: Soup Day!
By: Lilipons Date: December 31, 2020, 9:41 am
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My favorite is a Depression era relic from my Grandmother. It’s
red chicken soup and the proportions have never quite been
codified.
Chicken broth made from the carcass.
Chicken meat scraped off the bones.
Coarsely chopped onion.
Carrots
Celery
One can of crushed tomatoes.
Seasoning to taste.
When soup is almost ready to serve, stir in very fine noodles to
taste. We like to add so many noodles the soup is more like a
pasta sauce than a soup.
This is best reserved for blizzard days.
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Re: Soup Day!
By: Gellchom Date: December 31, 2020, 11:25 am
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Oh, this is me. I am all about soup. It's my favorite thing to
cook. My parents ate soup twice a day. I am happy if there is
some soup on the stove. There is always soup in my freezer. If
I get a call about someone with illness, death, new baby, etc.,
I am taking soup out of the freezer for them before I'm even off
the phone. Some people throw money at problems; I throw soup.
(There's a vivid image for you.)
Being a genuine Jewish mother (and grandmother!!), of course I
make chicken soup, with proven medicinal qualities. But I make
dozens and dozens of kinds of soups. You can't go wrong with
soup! I think my favorite -- like, if I had to choose something
for my last meal -- is my grandmother's vegetable soup: beef
(preferably flanken or short ribs), dried split peas, dried
limas, dried barley, celery, and carrots. It's a full meal in a
bowl, which is perfect for a family at an overwhelming time.
Name a soup you want, and I'll give you a recipe.
Happy new year, everyone. Make soup!
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