food poll #?: soup

[nbdy]

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Aha! Corbin hit upon something about which we can disagree. You see, the love of soup appears to be at 100%, but is there some ingredient that cannot be tolerated, that overpowers our completely rational love of soup? For me -- tripe.

Edit -- our love of soup appears to be over 90%.

[kalynraye]

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Aha! Corbin hit upon something about which we can disagree. You see, the love of soup appears to be at 100%, but is there some ingredient that cannot be tolerated, that overpowers our completely rational love of soup? For me -- tripe.

Edit -- our love of soup appears to be over 90%.

I get my Pho with no tripe. I can't handle it either!
I'd also like to add Miso soup, Mushroom soup, chicken and rice, chicken and dumplings, butternut squash. Italian wedding soup.... ok and I'm done.

Also who doesn't like soup!

[Torey]

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I LOVE soup!

My favourite is my homemade tortellini soup - basically, a minestrone with tortellini.

Second fave would be potato and leek - mmm!

Otherwise...

Bean soup
Cabbage soup
Taco soup
Pumpkin soup
Mushroom soup
Cheesy broccoli and cauliflower soup

[Medusa]

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I love Ricky Martin with or without oregano & lime!

[volcaniclastic]

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OH MY GOD I forgot about borscht. I could drown in borscht and die a happy human.

[Medusa]

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I like top ramen with tapatio.

There. I said it.

[Maria de Luna]

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Mmmm soup...

[kalynraye]

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I like top ramen with tapatio.

There. I said it.

I second that!! Well the top ramen any way. I like it plain and with a friend egg on some creamy chicken.

[LunarHarvest]

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I'm actually not to fond of soups, to be perfectly honest. I know that I speak blasphemy, but I just really never have had a predisposition towards it. :P

I like top ramen with tapatio.

There. I said it.

I eat ramen sometimes. Its cheap and fills the stomach, but it certainly is not my favourite. ^-^;

[DanieMarie]

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My favs are:
-Pumpkin/butternut squash soup. It's best when you roast the pumpkin/squash in olive oil in the oven before cooking.
-Thai curry soup (chicken soup with coconut milk and thai red curry spices)
-Potato soup (a blended German soup made with potatoes, veggies and bits of ham or sausage)
-Borscht
-Potato and leek soup
-Sorrel soup (I only make this in the spring and early summer, when sheep sorrel grows in my flowerpots like crazy. Instead of just pulling them, I put them in the soup!)
-Nettle soup

I also really like stew. It's a great thing to make when you're broke because you can just throw in whatever you have in the fridge and thicken it with oatmeal, which is insanely cheap here.

[Rae'ya]

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I love soup... but it's gotta be SOUP, not broth. There are only a few broth type soups that I like... mostly Minestrone or similar that's full of big chunks of ingredients. Otherwise I love the deep, dark, thick soups that are almost a stew (incidentally, I also love stew).

My all time favourite soup is cheesy broccoli and cauliflower.

Close seconds are Torey's Tortellini soup and his bean soup (butter beans, shallots, bacon, garlic and a mysterious ability to turn it into this amazingly deep broth despite the simple recipe), my mum's lamb shank soup, and the Woolworths beef, kale and red wine soup they only sell in winter.

[volcaniclastic]

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I also really like stew. It's a great thing to make when you're broke because you can just throw in whatever you have in the fridge and thicken it with oatmeal, which is insanely cheap here.

Do you have any vegetarian recipes? I love stew, but I can't make a thick stew to save my life. Even my chili (which is delicious), turns out watery.

[DanieMarie]

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Do you have any vegetarian recipes? I love stew, but I can't make a thick stew to save my life. Even my chili (which is delicious), turns out watery.

All the recipes I make use meat, but it's not the meat that makes it thick. I think you could easily make a lentil or bean stew. I make mine from scratch and kind of haphazardly, but I'll try to describe the process:

-I chop veggies and sautee them in a bit of oil. I find this adds more flavor than if I just boil them. Veggies usually include things like onions, turnips, parsnips, leeks, cabbage, carrots, or greens (greens from root veggies, swiss chard, sorrel, even chickweed, clover, or dandelion...I'm not one to waste the weeds that grow in my flowerpots). Sometimes apples or pears can be nice, as odd as that sounds. If I add any greens, they go in last, because those don't take long to cook. I also sautee the meat (unless I'm using leftover cooked meat) at this point, but I think if you're using lentils or beans, you'd add those after. I don't know how to cook beans or lentils, so that would have to be your call lol.
-I add chopped potatoes to the mixture. Potatoes are starchy and make the water thicker.
-I cook those in water or water mixed with stock (veggie stock will work) for quite a long time. While it's cooking, I also add seasonings and herbs for flavor. The water to other stuff ratio in stew is a lot lower than in soup, but I still let everything simmer until the water I do use is cut in half, if that makes sense. It makes everything more concentrated.
-Sometimes, I use a potato masher to mash up the potatoes a bit. I don't like to mash up everything though, because then it's less like a chunky stew and more like a blended soup.
-I add oatmeal. Oatmeal makes everything thick, and it's full of fiber, which makes it filling. Barley can also work, but barley isn't gluten free (if I remember rightly, you can't have gluten, right?) and I don't usually use it because oatmeal is a lot cheaper here.

It sounds kind of like gruel, but if you do it right and add enough veggies, herbs, and spices, it's pretty tasty.

[habbalah]

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Do you have any vegetarian recipes? I love stew, but I can't make a thick stew to save my life. Even my chili (which is delicious), turns out watery.

Vol, I have a veggie cookbooks on my Kindle. I can "loan" them to you if you want.

[Hawkfeathers]

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Do you have any vegetarian recipes? I love stew, but I can't make a thick stew to save my life. Even my chili (which is delicious), turns out watery.