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Soup is good food, no?

Bill S

Bill S

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I grew up in a Polish/German household with a Polish cook. Dinner (supper) often consisted of soup! No other courses or additional items except maybe some homemade bread. Anyone else experience this??

There was of course chicken noodle with kluske egg noodles, bacon and dumpling, oxtail soup, bean soup, split pea, beet soup (borsch) and sorrel soup. Most soups contained meats like chicken, pork neck bones, ham, oxtails and sometimes pig tails. Polish soul food I call it.

I still make many of these as well as other soups and they often comprise the entire dish for dinner supplemented with some fresh bread or dinner rolls - especially in winter. I think this practice grew out of frugality - a way to feed a family on the cheap. I'm not trying to be frugal now though, I just like soup!!
 
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Soup fan here as well. As a matter of fact the wife and I just finished the last of my 2021 Gumbo for dinner. I will have to put up a big pot early next month. I also make a huge vat of Turducken soup every year. The Thanksgiving turkey and the carcasses of ducks and chickens consumed throughout the year. The last batch yielded 17 quarts. I cook it outside on a burner, i am talking filling the pot with 6 gallons of water from the hose to start out with.
As to Polish soups, there was a great place in the East Village called Little Poland, as @Bogframe could attest. Their Kidney bean and Kielbasa soup really stuck to your ribs on a cold day after shopping for records on St. Mark’s Place. Awesome!
 
I love Sorrel Soup, unfortunately the fresh stuff is impossible to find 'round here unless you grow it yourself.
I found some canned, imported from Poland but it wasn't any good. Just didn't have the right sour flavor to it.
I've been using spinach soaked in lemon juice but would like to find some greens that come closer in flavor to the real deal.
 
Bill S said:
I grew up in a Polish/German household with a Polish cook. Dinner (supper) often consisted of soup! No other courses or additional items except maybe some homemade bread. Anyone else experience this??

There was of course chicken noodle with kluske egg noodles, bacon and dumpling, oxtail soup, bean soup, split pea, beet soup (borsch) and sorrel soup. Most soups contained meats like chicken, pork neck bones, ham, oxtails and sometimes pig tails. Polish soul food I call it.

I still make many of these as well as other soups and they often comprise the entire dish for dinner supplemented with some fresh bread or dinner rolls - especially in winter. I think this practice grew out of frugality - a way to feed a family on the cheap. I'm not trying to be frugal now though, I just like soup!!
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My mom used to make oxtail soup. Fishwife wouldn't eat it. One day mom took all the meat off the bones before serving it. Fishwife thought it was delicious. Until she came across one of the small bones from the end of the tail that mom had missed. She still won't eat it.
Campbell's actually sold oxtail soup in cans long ago. We have a magazine ad for it framed on our kitchen wall.
 
valvenator said:
I love Sorrel Soup, unfortunately the fresh stuff is impossible to find 'round here unless you grow it yourself.
I found some canned, imported from Poland but it wasn't any good. Just didn't have the right sour flavor to it.
I've been using spinach soaked in lemon juice but would like to find some greens that come closer in flavor to the real deal.
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I grow it from seed. Once you have it established it keeps growing back. I only have one bunch growing but harvest and freeze during summer.

I fry 6-8 strips of bacon and add diced onion then remove. Braze some pork neckbones in bacon grease and simmer a couple hrs. with bay leaves and some ground allspice, salt and pepper. When done I ladel some soup into a cup of cream and add that to the mix. Add sorrel and heat but don't bring to a boil.
 
Has anyone growing up in a German household ever had pancake soup? German pancakes are thin and dense. Leftover's my mom (Bavarian) used to make this incredible broth with carrots, celery, and beef; then cut the old pancakes into strips (almost noodle like) and drop them into the soup upon serving. I've never met a German that's ever had it. Just curious. My mom was the best cook ever, besides Oma.
 
Hajidub said:
Has anyone growing up in a German household ever had pancake soup? German pancakes are thin and dense. Leftover's my mom (Bavarian) used to make this incredible broth with carrots, celery, and beef; then cut the old pancakes into strips (almost noodle like) and drop them into the soup upon serving. I've never met a German that's ever had it. Just curious. My mom was the best cook ever, besides Oma.
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Never had it but sounds good. The pancakes sound like crepes perhaps? Egg, flour and milk. Almost an egg noodle consistency. When making crepes I add powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
 
My wife and I have switched up our eating habits so we have our main meal at noon. Dinner is a light meal and in the colder months the menu has a variety of soups. We do eat store bought, but most of the time it's homemade so we can control how much salt and fat are added.
 
I really don’t like soup. When I do eat soup it’s something really thick with little to no broth. Thick meaty chili. Thick meaty stew. The Only exception is my wife’s carrot Thai Soup. It very spicy and very thick. Ido love that.

What I will not ever under any circumstances I can think of eat is, Chicken soup, Cream corn.. ok, cream anything, pea soup, Wedding soup..

Let’s just reiterate I hate soup.
 
Bill S said:
Never had it but sounds good. The pancakes sound like crepes perhaps? Egg, flour and milk. Almost an egg noodle consistency. When making crepes I add powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
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I’m not exactly sure but the ones my mom made were thin and super dense. Would not disinigrate in liquid.
 
Soups were a staple for me growing up but my wife still makes a lot of soups. We typically have soup for dinner at least once a week and usually with homemade bread or homemade biscuits and a large salad. Our only soups that have meat are chicken noodle with homemade noodles and chicken dumpling with homemade dumplings. Other soups we typically have are; vegetable, cream of potato with green beans, corn chowder, black bean with vegetables and topped with cheese or sour cream, cream of pumpkin with lots of caraway.

We usually make Palacsintas which are similar to a crepe but never used them to make a soup. We actually never have any left over.
 
Love soup. We splurge occasionally and go out for Pho. Soup you can eat with chopsticks. There’s a variation of Pho called Bun Bo Hue that’s a little spicier. It uses egg noodles instead of rice noodles in Pho, we like it better with the Pho noodles and ask for the switch.
There was an Italian place nearby that had the best soups, two types on their salad bar, different each day of the week, that were the best basic soups I ever had. As a bachelor I ate my one meal a day there often.
Often times in restaurants the soups are loaded up with butter and cream, they taste good but what doesn’t drowned in the two.
This thread is making me hungry.
 
So, this thread for all of us Soup fans is probably not for you ;)
I took some time last winter and went through the process to make some world class french Onion soup - cooked it down for hours,
just sensational with sourdough bread - or - Like @zebra03 mentioned, carving out a sourdough roll as a soup bowl - OMG!!

Funky54 said:
I really don’t like soup.
What I will not ever under any circumstances I can think of eat is, Chicken soup, Cream corn.. ok, cream anything, pea soup, Wedding soup..
Let’s just reiterate I hate soup.
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hjames said:
So, this thread for all of us Soup fans is probably not for you ;)
I took some time last winter and went through the process to make some world class french Onion soup - cooked it down for hours,
just sensational with sourdough bread - or - Like @zebra03 mentioned, carving out a sourdough roll as a soup bowl - OMG!!
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Only French Onion soup I've ever had came in those little packets so I never had an interest in making it.
That is until I ran across this:
Now I'm dyin' to make some!
I love watching this guy cook. He's fun to watch and has a really great attitude and awesome recipes.
 
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