This is a proper, old-fashioned soup, the kind that should be made over two days.
On the first day you make the stock, cooking it slowly for 3 or 4 or 5 hours. Then strain it and chill it to remove all the fat.
Of course it’s easiest to do this if you happen to be in the middle of … Continue reading.....
I remember, back in the beginning of time, watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.
In one episode he stated that: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.
This is a bit more mundane but: If you wish to make this chicken soup you must first roast a chicken.
Actually, that’s the best part…… Continue reading.....
The other day I had my first slow cooker failure.
It should have been simple.
It was soup.
How can one screw up soup?
Apparently with ease.
It was a simple premise: we were going out for lunch which I knew would be long and a lot of food. I decided soup would be perfect for dinner that night and … Continue reading.....
It’s been soup season here for two reasons:
When I was growing up there were two kinds of soup at my house
One was Beef Vegetable, made with short ribs, onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, rutabagas and egg noodles. When my mother said she was going to ‘make soup’ everyone knew … Continue reading.....
When the freezer is full and so are the tomato plants…..
I make soup.
The yellow tomatoes are still producing like crazy while the red and green tomatoes have more or less retired.
As long as I had all the yellow tomatoes, and it was cold, I decided to make a yellow-themed soup.
Sort of…. the carrots were orange and … Continue reading.....
This is one of the dinners I made for myself while mon mari was enjoying French hospital food.
It’s not just that he wouldn’t have eaten it had he been home….
He would have left the house while I made it.
It’s one of two things I remember making in my Home Ec class in high school.
The other was … Continue reading.....
This was one of my favorite soups as a child, though I ate the condensed, canned version, not home made.
This is better.
For a shortcut version use a decent canned beef stock / broth rather than home-made, but the home-made is so easy why not make it?
As with most soups, this is flexible…. Add your favorite vegetables
It’s … Continue reading.....
I have always loved soup.
I ate a lot of soup for lunch when I was a child – usually the condensed kind that came in the red and white cans. I loved them all (except mushroom; that was just gross….)
My favorite was Bean with Bacon.
I have no idea if I would like any of those soups now. … Continue reading.....
