BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 10:25 AM

Anything but alphabet soup - nobody puts words in my mouth. Yes, I know, I know...

Okay, French onion.

wr.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 10:27 AM

low salt, 99% fat free? *shudder* Why bother with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,Guest Pinko
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 10:32 AM

Whatever the soup dragon gives you is the best. Coz he says so!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,ex catter
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 10:33 AM

cauliflower cheese soup with crisp bacon on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 01:19 PM

jOhn! Yout threids are coplete rubbish and you shewd be put awaye in sum kibbd of facility for the truely fecked and useless.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 02:34 PM

Ah; someone else who remembers The Soup Dragon. Moomins Rule OK.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 03:02 PM

Don't know the soup dragon, but I do remember the soup Nazi. "No soup for you!" And, brucie, don't forget the chunky peanut butter dammit.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 03:12 PM

Soup Dragon

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 03:17 PM

Soop is rubbish.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 05:37 PM

Campbell's cream of mushroom is probably my favourite of the bought soups. That said, Pip makes some that are better. She used to do a "perpetual" winter veg one which also had pasta in. The basic idea was once started, you boiled it up well each day and added new stuff as the contents got eaten.

Her latest delight was lettuce and potato, made at least partly to use up an excess of lettuces. I still have difficulty in imagining a lettuce as a main soup ingredient but I would rank this one as one of the best I've ever had.

Leek and potato is another I think is excellent. Watercress is yet another.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 07:10 PM

FTR, since this is a spelling thread, it's "vichysoisse", not "vichysoise"

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 08:41 PM

Well, Guest. Either way, it is cold crap!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 12:25 AM

It may have carp in it. That's true.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 07:04 AM

What about the Iron Chicken?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 08:18 AM

this is a delicious afghan soup recipe..

*'MASHWA' [Bean soup]

To buy:
200gr mushrooms sliced or chopped
1/2 cup dry chickpeas
1 cup mung beans
1/4 cup kidney beans
1 boiled potato diced
2 tomatoes chopped
yoghurt with minced garlic to taste
1/4 cup oil
1 onion chopped
dry mint
coriander powder

To make:
Cook the beans/chickopeas until tender
Fry onion and tomatoes to make sauce, add water , diced boiled potato, mushrooms, beans and simmer it all for 5 minutes. Let it cool , add yoghurt with minced garlic, sprinkle dry mint and coriander.

totally yum

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 08:40 AM

Thanks Freda. I've a feeling that would go down well here and I will give it a try soon. I'll probably vary it a touch with the herbs, at least using fresh for the mint as we have an excess of various types (apple mint, spearmint, pineapple mint, etc.) at the moment - they seem to grow like weeds! I'm not sure if we put any coriander in this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 09:58 AM

BORSCHT

In U.S. delicatessens this has degenerated to a little dish of cold shredded beets with a dollop of sour cream. There's nothing wrong with that, but a real old-country borscht is a meal in itself. The New York Times Cookbook gives a Ukrainian & a Russian recipe. The former is a major project, but I mean to try it someday for fun. The latter I have made several times with excellent results:

1 lb lean beef, cubed
1.5 qt water
1 tbsp salt
1.5 cups shredded raw beets
3/4 cup shredded carrots
3/4 cup shredded white turnips
1 medium onion, chopped
2 tbsp tomato puree
2 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp butter
1/2 small head cabbage, shredded
Freshly ground black pepper
2 bay leaves
Sour cream

Simmer the beef, covered, in salted water until tender (about 1.5 h)

Meanwhile, in a large saucepan simmer the beets, carrots, turnips, onion, tomato puree, vinegar, sugar, & butter, covered, 15 min. Stir frequently. Add the cabbage & cook 10 min longer.

Add the veg mixture, pepper, & bay leaves to the meat & broth. Adjust seasonings, & cook until the vegs are tender. Add more vinegar if desired.

Add sour cream to taste before eating.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 10:10 AM

My forvorite is chicken with barley soup!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Sooz
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 10:18 AM

Our homemade vegetable soup is scrummy, but different every time as the ingredients are subject to availabilty.
We run a "Supper Quiz" in our Village Hall where the participants get a three course meal with a quiz to follow. Last Autumn, one of the choices for the first course was "Quizmasters Ten Vegetable Soup". It was very popular, until we announced the first round of the quiz (two courses later) - identify the ten vegetables in the soup. I think the answer was:-
onion, leek, garlic, broccoli, mushroom, carrot, parsnip, celery, tomato and potato. The left overs were even better the next day - why is it that soups and casseroles improve with age and I just get more wrinkles?

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 10:41 AM

yum - I'm making soup tomorrow! thanks for this thread, jOhn!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 12:07 PM

Panera Bread's Mushroom Bisque. I made mushroom bisque last night, but it was no where near as good as that at Panera Bread restraunt.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 03:49 PM

mushroom underwear that sounds nice , or is another spelling error. button mushrooms I hope...!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 04:49 PM

Beef and Barley.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 06:01 PM

to t'other guest.....it is vichychoise...French word...does not have ss at end

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 07:27 PM

Actually, both GUESTS are wrong.

The correct spelling is VICHYSSOISE

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 07:28 PM

it's still cold carp though.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Helen
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 08:32 PM

Guest, TIA, you should have a look at the thread I started about BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches - lots of other pb afficionados here.

Favourites:

home made pumpkin soup - an Oz favourite. The best I ever had seemed to be butternut pumpkin cooked and pureed (no stock) with seasonings and either a dollop of sour cream or butter on top and a sprinkling of fresh herbs. But my favourite way of making it is to fry up some onions, use whatever fresh pumpkin (a half or a quarter of a big one) is available cut up in chunks, add some stock (I use pre-made bought variety), boil it up for about 10 minutes till the pumpkin is softand then blend it up. Adjust seasonings. Eat. If you want to be fancy add the extra stuff -sour cream herbs etc, but just as it is with chunks of fresh bread is heaven. Sometimes I swirl a bit of milk through it, too.

Also:

cauliflower, onion & bacon - has to be home made
pea & ham - has to be home made
tomato - from a can works for me because I have never figured out the trick to make it myself. It's always too acidic when I make it from fresh tomatoes
minestrone - - has to be home made, or from an Italian cafe


Once, years ago, a group of people I knew put on an evening which we called a Winter's Revel. Everyone had to bring some soup or bread and we had pots of all different types. It was cold outside and warm in the hall with lots of talking, laughing and eating, and afterwards we had some music and had a dance. It stands out in my memory as one of the best nights of my life.

It's the only time I have had real borscht too. One of the women whose family included Russian heritage, made her family's recipe and it was brilliant. Hot, sour, chunky with beetroot strips, and with a big dollop of sour cream on top.

John, just ignore the spelling Nazis. Real people look for the real meanings. Spelling Nazis look for something to whinge about.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 08:36 PM

spelling Nazis??????? Lighten up Helen.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your favourite sort of SOUP?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 08:52 PM

One of the tricks of cooking with tomatoes is to remove all the seeds and liquid, use only the peeled flesh.

Australians treat pumpkin as a vegetable, Americans seem to treat it as a fruit - Aussie pumpkin pies are savoury, US ones seem to be too sweet for Aussie taste. Aussie pumpkin soups are savoury, not sweet, but there is a natural sweetness. Maybe it has to do with the varieties grown.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Helen
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:09 PM

Spelling Nazis - lighten up! Talk about soup or go somewhere else and start your own thread about spelling. And maybe I'll come and invade your spelling thread with some thread-creep about soup. Soup-thread-creep! ;-> Thread-creep soup?

The American pumpkin pies are sweet because they have sugar in them. Same pumpkin, I think.

An American couple who were living out here a few years ago invited me to a Thanksgiving Dinner at their place. Lots of yummy food, but sweet pumpkin pie - that was weird! An my friend was very bemused as well because she said it was the first time she had ever made pumpkin pie from fresh pumpkin rather than from a can.   Cultural differences!

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: ranger1
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:17 PM

I make a wicked good beef stew in the winter. Otherwise, my mom's corn chowdah is my favorite.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:26 PM

I had the most wonderful mashed pumpkin when I was in Australia. Have never been able to match it. Tried salt/pepper/butter with mashed pumpkin. What am I missing?

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 01:29 AM

One of the tricks with feeding kids in my younger days was 'Yellow Potato' - mashed potato & pumpkin.

We do have different species fo pumpkin here. Favourite is 'Queensland Blue" - a blue skinned type. Also another that used to be called 'Jap' - often grown by oriental market gardeners, I believe. Butternut is also popular. Never seen canned pumpkins in Australia, we have so many fresh ones, that I doubt anyone would try canning it.

But now with the FTA, looks like we will import all our food now, not bother processing or even growing it soon.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 05:56 AM

We have Butternut Squash rather than pumpkin on sale in the supermarkets. I like to cut it into cubes, and roast it in the oven, then scrape the flesh off the rind, and use it in soups, or mix it with mashed potato, salt and pepper and fry it as a pattie.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 06:17 AM

sinsull - for beautiful aussie mashed potato, try salt, milk and butter, mashed til creamy.

or, for extra rich, add buttermilk instead of the milk, or grated cheese.

freda

off to make soup!

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 06:24 AM

Stone soup

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Helen
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 07:24 AM

Yes, butternut squash - same as butternut pumpkin. Butternuts are probably the nicest tasting pumpkins. I don't know what sort of pumpkins you have in America. As Foolestroupe said, Queensland Blue and Jap are pretty common, at least here on the east coast of Oz.

My hubby, whose father had a fruit & veg shop, reckons that dry pumpkins are the nicest. Dry, meaning that the flesh is not moist. The darker the colour of the flesh the better the flavour too.   I suspect that warm climates produce good pumpkins because they would ripen well to a deep colour and drier texture.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 10:06 AM

Butternut pumpkins seem to be naturally sweeter than the other varieties. I like them best. A few years ago I had a very successful crop of them from my garden (have never had such a good crop since). I just stood them in a cool dry place in my laundry and we had all the pumpkin we could eat for months. They kept really well.

I have a friend, Warren (Arch) Bishop, a wonderful performing poet and storyteller who also takes a food van to festivals. His pumpkin soup is to die for. I like it with a blob of sour cream in the middle and freshly ground pepper, with a soft bread roll.

Until 2 years ago, there was a pumpkin soup stand at the National Folk Festival in Canberra. The guy used to stay open till all hours, long after all the other food stalls had closed for the night, but didn't open again till lunch time or so the next day. It was lovely to come out of a session at 3am and be able to get a hot mug of soup and a bread roll on my way back to my tent. He always did a roaring trade, in fact it often turned into a meeting place for late night eaters. Where else but at a folk festival would you get a queue at 3am?

I remember one year a bunch of us just hung around there for hours. He ended up inviting us in and giving us free seconds, and we were still sitting around on milk crates talking as the sun came up - and this was in a particularly cold year too, temperature somewhere around zero. Our feet were cold but we were warm inside. He hasn't been there the last two years, and it is a real loss.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Sooz
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 12:59 PM

I'm starting to fantasise about suitable weather for eating soup. Its far too hot and humid here today.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Scoville
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 02:54 PM

Tomato Florentine. I don't remember exactly how I make it but I use canned pureed and chopped tomatoes, and water, for the base, add some chopped onion, some cooked pasta (shells are cute, but of course anything works), melt in some Parmesan cheese (even the cheap powder stuff works), and then add spinach and let it wilt.

A friend of mine gave me a recipe for something called locro (I think it may be Peruvian; she lived in Peru for years) that's a thick yellow-squash soup that's topped with slivered red onions marinated in lemon and oil. I'll see if I can find the recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 05:21 PM

Tomato soup is my all time favorite! I also am very fond of homemade french onion, split pea with ham, cream of califlower, turkey noodle....oh...who am I kidding? I LOVE soup!!!! I recently had gumbo (not sure if that qualifies as soup...) at a winery not far from home that had been brewing on the woodstove....YUMMY!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 01:28 AM

Wyrd Sister,

Is that like in Doctor Hook's "The Wonderful Soup Stone"?

wr.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 01:39 AM

A California friend of mine made the following:

Diced beef, lean, in 1" cubes (omit if vegetarian)
Carrots--diced large
Parsnips (added late in the cooking)
Turnips--diced large
Corn on the cob (left on the cob but broken into three inch pieces)
Peas--fresh if possible, frozen if not
Potatoes, medium size and halved
Spice to taste.

Add a quart of water and a gallon of red wine (beaujolais type) no sweeter than a 3.

Cook slowly.

Hey, it works. For people who don't use alcohol, the alcohol cooks off anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: el ted
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 05:10 AM

94.

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From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 08:10 AM

1 tonne

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 08:33 AM

That was a wanton comment, Wandering Minstrel ...

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:45 AM

The Hull Special: Dead cat with added mud.
But Herself does a mean chilled courgette (zucchini) soup to use up the surplus.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

98

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

99

Subject: RE: BS: Waht you favoritre sort of soop?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

100. Sorry El Ted.