What's your favourite soup?

[Rollem]

I've only ever made watercress soup. It all seems a bit of a faff and then you have soup coming out of your ears for days don't you?

freeze it

my fav is carrot and corriander. simple but lush

i had a delicious spicey parsnip with 'frizzled' leeks before christmas though, and also love the butternut squash and sweet potato soup (with buttemilk and marsala wine) that's in nigella's christmas book. i could eat lots of that!

 

[Pieface]

This thread should be really boring but I feel compelled to keep coming back to hear flavours of soup. Like soup porn.

It's a bit weird.

I'm doing that with the how did you keep warm in bed last night thread

 

[soulman]

Chicken noodle soup.

 

[DotCommunist]

leek and potato for the win

 

[QueenOfGoths]

If making it myself then squash, coconut milk and chili - yum! Or Pea and Ham. If buying it then broccoli and stilton or a nice creamy mushroom

 

[elevendayempire]

Pea and Ham ftw!

 

[ringo]

When you can eat it with a fork.

No it doesn't. In India all dal is too thin for a fork, pretty much.

Dal is derived from the Sanskrit word for split, the soup takes it's name from splitting the dried bean/pea/pulse and cooking it in water to make soup.

 

[mrsfran]

A few months ago I went to the National Gallery Dining Rooms and had a cold cucumber, crab and ginger soup. It was amazing. A genuinely revolutionary moment for me. I'd never enjoyed cold soup before (so I don't know why I ordered it, tbh), but it was a complete taste sensation.

At home though, I love my low-fat smoked haddock chowder (recipe). I don't get to make it very often because it stinks the flat out but when I do it's like coming home.

I eat soup all the damn time. It's my default meal.

 

[mrsfran]

http://101things.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/amazing-french-onion-soup/

I'd urge you to RSS dat.

Cheers for the plug

The recipe comes from the Restaurant Durer in Montmartre. I made the waitress write it down in my notebook.

 

[sojourner]

leek and potato for the win

I have just had a nice big bowl of homemade for my lunch

Happy happy joy joy (apart from wanting to kill the cunt who removed my soup from the microwave when it was only half warmed, so he could put his own soup in to do )

 

[Riklet]

Egg noodle soup is pretty nice! I like standard cream of tomato with a dollop of sour cream in it, lentil n potato n green stuff kinda soup and "red soup" (pepper, tomato, carrot, other red things)

As you may be able to tell I am not a soup expert, but I am actually planning on making some this year. Dahl kinda soup is nice...

 

[Boycey]

watercress and roquefort ftw

also: french onion.

 

[Pip]

If making it myself then squash, coconut milk and chili - yum!

Have you got a recipe for that?

Pea and mint is another favourite of mine, because it takes about 15 minutes in all.

 

[EastEnder]

Nothing too spicy or with huge lumps of veg in it - that's stew, not soup.

Baxter's Tomato & Basil soup is nice, even more so if you add a generous amount of finely chopped fresh basil.