Best Soup Ever?

[SubZeroCat]

Chicken noodle soup

Carrot & Coriander

Pumpkin

Butternut squash and ginger

Cream of watercress? (I think, mum used to make it)

Mmmmhhh sssoooupp

 

[cyberfairy]

I think I could live happily and well on lots of different lovely soups and fresh granary bread and butter

 

[SubZeroCat]

I think I could live happily and well on lots of different lovely soups and fresh granary bread and butter

Mmmh innit. I eat soup all the time in winter.

I'm gonna make watercress soup tonight

(cos it's pretty much winter now )

 

[nuffsaid]

This thread, I really like soup and have it nearly every night thru winter.

Also I've found a nice little cafe near where I work that does a different soup everyday - so far I've had:

Tomato and Basil - yum
Chicken and Noodle - yum
Brocolli (sp?) - yum.

This is also a result as the aircon at work is too keen and most days recently I've been freezing come lunchtime.

But still no Asparagus.

 

[cyberfairy]

Mmmh innit. I eat soup all the time in winter.

I'm gonna make watercress soup tonight

(cos it's pretty much winter now )

How do you make that? I have had more soup recently as I watch the rain lashing against the windows and hear the wind screaming and remind myself tis August

 

[cyberfairy]

This thread, I really like soup and have it nearly every night thru winter.

Also I've found a nice little cafe near where I work that does a different soup everyday - so far I've had:

Tomato and Basil - yum
Chicken and Noodle - yum
Brocolli (sp?) - yum.

This is also a result as the aircon at work is too keen and most days recently I've been freezing come lunchtime.

But still no Asparagus.

There'sa pub near my work which does huge bowls of home made soup for 2.25 Keeps me going all afternoon (nearly )
Think leek and potato my personal fave but adore broccoli (Sp?!) and Stilton

 

[SubZeroCat]

How do you make that? I have had more soup recently as I watch the rain lashing against the windows and hear the wind screaming and remind myself tis August

I haven't made it yet but here's an easy recipe (that I'm gonna use tonight cos I convienently have all the ingredients!):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/watercresssoup_71154.shtml

 

[Andy the Don]

What no French Onion option..

Mmmm.. look at that - a meal on its own..

 

[Kanda]

Definitely

 

[tarannau]

Talking of meals on their own, I've developed a real liking for making huge pots of minestrone soup.

What's not to like of a soup made with hefty quantities of beans, onions and as many leftover vegetables as you can find, pasta and topped with gorgeous parmesan. It's a ridiculously healthy feast in a soup, and about as cheap and virtuous as you can be. It is better with pancetta though, sorry veggies.

Only seems to work if you make huge properly if you make huge quantities of it though. Also good with a 'Pistou' variation - garlic crushed with basil, oil and salt added at the end of cooking.

I also love making chicken and sweetcorn soup when I'm feeling unwell, or a hot and sour soup, laced with coriander, when I need a boost.

 

[cesare]

I quite often make carrot soup really spicy - warms the cockles on a chilly (!) autumn evening

 

[Reg in slippers]

mmm, soup season

..is imminent


chunky bowlfuls with pulses and bones in

 

[May Kasahara]

From the poll options I had to go for tomato, for its magical curative properties and general lushness, but let's face it, good soup is the don. I'm looking forward to making some more butternut squash and white bean soup when I get home, as a little foretaste of autumn.

From the many other types of soup not represented on the poll, I'd have to go for veggie hot and sour or tom yam - the ultimate hangover cure, spirit lifter and happiness generator of soup.

 

[catrina]

what's wrong with you people?! Heinz is not soup! It is overly salted canned tomato water.

Make yourself some real soup that tastes GOOD.

when I was little, I thought soup meant chicken noodle soup from a can, and I absolutely loathed soup.

Now it's my favourite food, ever. It's dead cheap to make, even posh ones.

My absolute favourite is lobster bisque, but I also love spinach, french onion and butternut squash as well. Anything BUT chicken soup, actually.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Yet again there's no Asparagus option

Likewise in shops, more often than not. Me loves Asparagus soup but its difficult to get hold of, Heinz don't do it, and I usually have to buy it in cup-a-soup format.

Campbell's do a great asparagus soup, in their thick soups range. One of my faves, along with Clam Chowder, Lobster Bisque (both by Young's, I think) and Chicken, Leek and Potato Big Soup by Heinz.

 

[nuffsaid]

Well the nice little cafe round the corner did a nice Celery soup today.
This was quite impressive as I normally hate anything celery flavoured except celery sticks, but I thought I'd give it a try.

It definitely had a hint of coconut. Perfect consistency. I think I'm going to pay compliments to the chef, every flavour I've had from there has been yummy.

Will try to find campbells asparagus then, cheers.

 

[snoogles]

I like spicy squash and sweet potato or spicy parsnip and I love pumpkin soup.

oooh yes, definitely agree

French onion soup is also fabulous, but it makes me fart

 

[SubZeroCat]

Well the nice little cafe round the corner did a nice Celery soup today.
This was quite impressive as I normally hate anything celery flavoured except celery sticks, but I thought I'd give it a try.

It definitely had a hint of coconut. Perfect consistency. I think I'm going to pay compliments to the chef, every flavour I've had from there has been yummy.

That soup sounds yum, ask him what he puts in it!

 

[fortyplus]

a favourite is quite impossible...

the first time I had sichuan hot and sour soup it was amazing, but everywhere else I've had it since it's just been hot and sour gloop.

I love a good French fish soup with cheese and rouille.

Ukrainian white barszcz, which I had in Poland was fantastic, and so was the clear red barszcz and the creamy cold chlodnik one.

provencale garlic soup

home-made oxtail

eat more soup!

 

[Juice Terry]

what's wrong with you people?! Heinz is not soup! It is overly salted canned tomato water.

Heathen
Heinz Tomato - King of Soups All other soups bow down before it

 

[tarannau]

Heathen
Heinz Tomato - King of Soups All other soups bow down before it

No way. It's like a Pot Noodle style snackform, not like the proper soup article.

That said, there's something right about the reassuring sweet-gloopiness of Heinz's tomato soup. It was the kind of thing I used to love when I was young, especially when bulked up with macaroni. To be honest I still find it preferable to the majority of ponceified Tomato "New Covent Garden' style soups, which are still artificial tasting, yet without that reassuring taste of childhood

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Home made Goulash! Yum Yum YUM!

 

[cyberfairy]

Home made Goulash! Yum Yum YUM!

Recipe please!

 

[tarannau]

That's surely cheating. Goulash is a basically a stew, although some thrifty Euros probably water it down and call it a soup...



I quite like chilli soup, made much the same way as (steak based) chilli con carne too, albeit with more cumin, added beanery and some added deeply beefy stock.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I make the best leek and potato soup ever! (Okay, I admit that it is not only easy, but subject to individual taste (but I like it, anyway)).

My favourite home made soup is probably spicy parsnip.

Bloody gorgeous, it is.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

leek, potato AND carrot on a base of sweated onions and garlic, finished with parsley and seasonings.

 

[trabuquera]

Tom Yum Goong - Thai hot and sour prawn soup.

Not just a food, also a medical cure for flu/congestion

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

no miso soup option?

i just myself a shit load of shiro miso so i think i'mm be doing mass souping soon


tamato comes second ... although i hate tomatoes!