What is your favourite soup? I used to make a kick ass cold potato leak soup with chives and cream.

[applegrove]

Still my favourite by far.

[femmocrat]

1. Home-made chicken noodle soup.

I make it several times over the winter and freeze containers of it. It's great for a cold!

[Aristus]

2. I love potato-leek soup!

I've never had it cold, though. I love vichyssoise, too.

My wife and I went on a cruise once, the dining room of which served a different cold soup every night. One night, cold strawberry soup; the next night, cold English cucumber soup; the next: cold mango soup; the next: cold asparagus soup. It was wonderful... :9

[applegrove]

3. Isn't vichyssoise cold potato leek soup? Aren't they the same thing? Cause

I didn't use the word vichyssoise because it isn't descriptive of the potato and leeks you use to make it with.

[Aristus]

4. I thought vichyssoise was just potatoes.

Shows you what I know. :dunce:

[Initech]

5. Pho

Had a big bowl for lunch yesterday at a great vietnamese place by work. Good shit.

[madinmaryland]

6. This thread is worthless without the recipe!

:hi:

[applegrove]

11. Cannot find the recipe. Here is one from the internet. The important thing is

that you only use the white part of the leek, not the green part. So buy leeks with the most white part you can find.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vichyssoise-102030

Serves 6

•2 cups finely diced raw potatoes
•4 tablespoons butter
•6 leeks, cleaned and cut into 1 inch pieces
•3 cups chicken bouillon
•1 teaspoon salt
•1/2 teaspoon freshy ground black pepper
•a dash of nutmeg
•11/2 to 2 cups sour cream or heavy cream
•Chopped chives

Cook the potatoes in salted water to cover until just tender. Melt the butter in a skillet and cool the leeks gently, tossing them lightly, for a few minutes. Add the chicken bouillon and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer the leeks until tender. Add the potatoes to the leeks and the broth and season to taste with salt, papper and nutmeg. Put this mixture in the blender (you will need to blend it in two lots) and blend for 1 minute, or until smooth. Chill. When ready to serve, mix in sour cream or heavy cream. Garnish with chopped chives.

[av8rdave]

7. Black Bean!

Preferably Cuban style!

[graywarrior]

8. Squash

Kobucha or butternut. Add ginger & tamari.

[Bunny]

9. Campbell's Cream of Mushroom, or Campbell's Cream of Chicken.

I think they're both delicious! :9

[Inspired]

17. Cream of Chicken served on buttered toast. Yum!

[RebelOne]

18. I like cream of mushroom over rice.

In fact, you have made me hungry for it. I have some Campbell's Cream of Mushroom in my pantry.

[Catlover827]

10. My mom's potato soup

Potatoes, milk, butter, black pepper and celery seed. Very simple and delightful.

[tblue]

12. Gaspacho, cream of mushroom.

[NYC_SKP]

13. That sounds damn good. I had a nice Gumbo yesterday here in NOLA

I'm here on assignment, had a lovely Dunguness Crab tonight.

I often make a pretty fair Cabbage based veggie soup, but yours sounds much better!

:hi:

[KamaAina]

34. Dungeness crab in NOLA? I doubt that.

The Dungeness is ours alone. The crab that occupies such a key place in Louisiana's food chain is, not altogether surprisingly, the Louisiana blue crab.

[NYC_SKP]

36. That was the choice, three blues or one Dungeness.

Perhaps I erred, but I'm nut unhappy.

Mostly, I wanted whatever was creating the aroma that stayed with me through to the next day such that I had to find the place again.

It was a the boiling crustacea.

Next time I'll go with the blues.

Tonight was Emeril's, on Julia, the counter overlooking the kitchen.

I went for the bouillabaisse, my friend had the gigantic and tasty pork chop.

:party:

[dimbear]

14. I love French onion soup, but it is harder and harder to find and afford pearl onions.

Must be the cost of labor or something.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. A creamy veggie puree soup with V8 juice as the base

Take some olive oil and fry some Italian spices (garlic, oregano, basil, fennel, whatever you like) and minced onions in a Dutch oven
Pour in some V8 juice. The quantity depends on how many people you're going to feed for how long. The V8 already has salt, so no need to add any
Add your favorite vegetables or whatever you have on hand, chopped
Simmer
When the veggies are soft, run the soup through a blender a bit at a time and add the blended stuff back in. (You can blend in some heavy cream or whole-milk yogurt if you want a creamy soup) Don't puree everything; leave some vegetable pieces intact.

You can use the same technique to make gazpacho in the summer, only do the pureeing with a food processor that can handle raw vegetables, and add a dash of wine instead of cream.

[GoCubsGo]

27. I like V8 as a base for Gazpacho.

That, cold avocado soup, and Vichyssoise are my favorite summer soups. There are some versions of the latter out there that include zucchini for a nice change of pace. Good way to use up the zucchini, too.

In the winter, I love a good homemade chicken soup, split pea, butternut squash soup, black bean, tortilla soup, and Martha Stewart's "Curried Roast Cauliflower Soup". Somebody in the Cooking and Baking forum posted that one a while back. It's delicious! The recipe is on her web page.

[Tabasco_Dave]

16. A good Wonton

with veggies and sliced pork, not just dumplings.:9

[siligut]

19. Probably pinto bean soup

We eat a fair amount of soup, but I think the pinto bean is my favorite. I soak and cook the beans, then throw in some garlic powder, chili powder, onion powder, cumin, cilantro, salt and pepper. Use my immersion blender to make it creamy, and then, and this is the pièce de résistance, top it with these flavor/texture enhancers: diced onion, sliced black olives, homemade salsa, sour cream, shredded jack cheese and tortilla chips :9.

[a kennedy]

20. My moms home made chicken with rice.....

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!

[progressoid]

21. Weiner water soup

From cooks.com:

"1 pkg. wieners
3 c. water

Combine wieners and water in a two quart saucepan. Bring to a boil until wieners are cooked. Throw the wieners in the garbage. Serve soup. Serves 3."

It's crucial that you remember to throw away the wieners. Most amateur cooks leave the wieners on a plate or even, laughably, serve them alongside the soup. This is disastrous! The boiled wieners give off, as vapour, a strange nitrate substance, which will recombine with the soup, putting it off.

No - throw the wieners away, shut the lid on the trashcan, or put it outside, and enjoy your steaming cup of WWS.

[Luciferous]

22. Potato soup in a bread bowl- made it the other night and it was awesome.

[madmom]

23. Here are two that I make whenever I can afford the seafood. They are both REALLY good especially

.with good homemade garlic bread


http://allrecipes.com/recipe/karyns-cream-of-crab-soup/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/newport-clam-chowder/detail.aspx

[sarge43]

24. Chicken barley. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

25. In the winter, chili, split pea or clam chowder!

Yum! It's going to be a tad chili here the next few days, just may have to whip up a batch of chili! It's been months since I've made any because of the heat. Time to break out the winter soups!

in the summer, I like just about any soup made from our garden veggies. I make chicken noodle, cream of broccoli or asparagus, a tasty onion soup with home grown onions and garlic....

With some fresh bread, this is a meal for us.

[applegrove]

26. Ever had "Habitant" split pea soup. It is by far the best. Sold in Canada.

[riderinthestorm]

35. I have been extremely fortunate to be able to make my own

or only eat my sister's fabulous home made pea soup (she operates a restaurant/catering business).

But if I ever need a can of pea soup, you better believe it will be Habitant!

[dana_b]

28. too many!! I love all kinds

potato/leek, homemade vegetable, clam chowder, an asian/veggie stew/soup, chicken/noodle, turkey/rice, all yum!! I think soup is a perfect food.

[geardaddy]

29. You better plug up your pototoes if they leak.

:hide:

I love potato leek soup.

I also like split pea with ham, navy bean with bacon, cock-a-leekie, NE clam chowder, and Chinese pork liver with ginger soup.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

30. Fish and Vodka stew (with extra vodka)

It has fish, potatos, leeks and some other stuff (Vodka!)

[whistler162]

31. Sales of course! Silly question.

[whistler162]

32. Sales of course! Silly question.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. French onion soup that's not too salty.

With the Texas Toast floating on top with nice gloppy cheese. Yum!!!

[Petrushka]

37. Vegetable-beef-barley.

[rurallib]

38. Chili - and it is almost time for that first pot of the season.

[Arugula Latte]

39. Thanks for the reminder ... I've got leeks in the frig

I'm going to make me some a that there Frenchie food -- visheeswaaaah. :9

[Amaril]

40. Chicken Tom Ka is my current favorite

I put a scoop of jasmine rice in the bowl before ladeling in the soup. :9