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Soup is good food, no?

Way back when I was younger and still living at home we'd have soup for dinner sometimes. Generally it was either pea soup or potato soup. Sometimes ham and pea soup. Occasionally mom would make chicken noodle soup.

In addition to the above, I developed a love for Maryland crab soup. All can be served as a 'stand alone' dinner.

I also like Miso soup and Hot n Sour soup but those are more appetizers than dinner.
 
Grenadeslio said:
hope you have good water, I never consume our water here in S Fl, might just as well drink battery acid

sure miss the water from the 500' deep artisian well we had in NW Mass
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I haven't had tap water for over forty years... reverse osmosis, carbon filter and UV light. Once you've been away from it for awhile it simply tastes awful, very metallic and chemical, just plain nasty.
 
I have some frozen oxtails I'll need to thaw and smoke. Oxtail meat is very rich tasting and when its stewed in a soup, all the flavor really comes out of the meat, bones and gelatinous tissue that makes up the tail bones. It makes a great meat for a beef barley soup but I'm tempted to try it in place of pork in some type of bean soup. I'll smoke it at 225 deg in the Weber.
 
Not a soup fan at all. I like stews or chilis well enough, but not a favorite. I do love chicken and dumplings though.

But stuff like pea soup, tomato soup, cream of anything, ick.
 
The only soup I dislike is French Onion.
Rich onion flavor with bubble-gum cheese on top and soggy bread inside. I hate all 3 of those things !

Kind of a damp dreary day today...might be a good day to boil up those chicken carcasses in the freezer !
 
Recently made one of our favorite casseroles that called for two cans of cream of (whatever) soup. We had talked about how much unknown stuff is in those, so I decided to try making my own. To my surprise it was surprisingly easy.

So today I made some cream of celery soup for lunch.

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Always was a soup/stew fan. Some of the regulars, Split pea soup, Cabbage and Kielbasa soup, Steak soup, ATK's best Beef stew, Carol Shelbys Chili (scratch made), Chicken rice/noodle soup, Broccoli/Cheddar soup, New England Clam Chowder
 
Mom made some really good French onion soup the other day out of a bit of leftover prime rib on the bone. She cooked it down on the bone to make the broth. We often have chicken soup made from leftover rotisserie chicken. Same idea there, eat chicken one day, toss the carcass in the Instapot and cook the remains into stock for dinner the next day.


Lots of soups are hit and miss, depends entirely on the stock. The local diner actually has pretty decent soup. Had their veggie for lunch today. I think they must have had succotash last night, it had a lot of corn and lima beans in it.
 
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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Until I read your post I honestly did not remember, but yes, my german mother made this.. maybe not all the same ingredidients..
We had the cakes for breakfast, usually with jelly on them, and then the rest at dinner, in a soup cut up as you said..
She had an uncanny way of feeding us, every day, on very little.. we never went to bed hungry..
I love soups also, and will try something new any chance I get..
 
Good soup secret for those that love Thai food. I've been doing it for years. Whenever I get some "relatively bland" sort of vegetable based soup, just throw in a tablespoon or so of peanut butter. :D
 
Swokie63 said:
Until I read your post I honestly did not remember, but yes, my german mother made this.. maybe not all the same ingredidients..
We had the cakes for breakfast, usually with jelly on them, and then the rest at dinner, in a soup cut up as you said..
She had an uncanny way of feeding us, every day, on very little.. we never went to bed hungry..
I love soups also, and will try something new any chance I get..
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If your German mom was like mine, she could whip up a full dinner for an entire family in 30 mins. I've picked up this trait with certain recipes, still blows my wife's mind. German efficiency...lol!
 
Most of my homemade soup(s) (with the exception of clam chowder, overpowers the clams) recipes includes my secret ingredient. 3 drops of Vicious Viper Hot Sauce per 5 quart soup pan. This hot sauce is highly concentrated .. 4 drops would be too hot for most people. I make soups during the winter months usually.

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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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Nope. Grew up Polish and dirt poor. Hate most soup. Just reminds me of when my derelict parents couldn't rub 2 nickels together, while my neighbors kids got to own computers and go to the doctor. To me, soup is perfectly good food that fell in some water. As long as my teeth work, I will not eat soup. Maybe when they are gone, I will consider it.
 
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