Started my soup diet. Going well so far. It has been about an hour. LOL!

[applegrove]

I don't have high blood pressure. I'm most interested in vegetable flavours. Seriously I'm open to soup suggestions. What is your favourite kind of soup? Tonight i mixed a lentil with tomato soup. There were some delicious water chestnuts in it.

[Ohiogal]

1. Cream of tomato basil soup

preferably with a grilled cheese sandwich for dipping. 😀

[applegrove]

3. Classic.

[dlwickham]

28. throw in some vodka and that would make a damn good bloody mary

[elleng]

2. How to Make Soup

'Soup is a true wonder of alchemy. Together, water, onions and time turn water into broth, bland into savory and thin into thick. But for those results, process is critical: The finest soups layer flavors every step of the way. We will teach you about soup’s building blocks, then walk you through combining them with a basic recipe that will help you transform practically any ingredient into a simple, satisfying meal.'>>>

https://cooking.nytimes.com/guides/40-how-to-make-soup?

[applegrove]

4. Bookmarking! Thanks.

[AJT]

5. Started my sour mike & ike diet.......been about 15 minutes

I don't expect it to last much longer.

[applegrove]

6. Oh you!

[AJT]

7. There are some great slow cooker soup recipes. I especially like slow cooker split pea with ham

and bean with bacon.

[applegrove]

9. I get my split pea from a can. There is a brand from Quebec everyone in canada

buys. But the bacon and bean sounds interesting. I will look that up.

[True Dough]

30. That would be

Habitant! That familiar yellow label. Salty, but good! (The soup, I mean, not the label. I never tasted the label.)

[applegrove]

31. Yes. Habitant. Very good if you do it 2 pea to:1 small can of consomme.

Salty yes. But a treat everysooften.

[Ohiogal]

11. Those are awesome!

[Ohiogal]

8. What comedian said

"I'm on a seafood diet.
I see food, I eat it" ??

[applegrove]

10. That was my problem too.

[Ohiogal]

12. Panera

makes this to die for soup in the fall called Autumn Squash Soup. It is fabulous.

[applegrove]

16. I was anti-squash as a child. And though I can eat it as an adult I prefer

not to.

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. Yeah, buy them all at BJ's.....best value!

[femmedem]

13. I made this one recently and Mr. Femmedem said he thought it was the best soup I ever made.

It's a red lentil/tomato/coconut milk soup. Easy and perfect for winter. http://ohsheglows.com/2016/04/03/glowing-spiced-lentil-soup/

I've never made a bad recipe from the Oh She Glows blog.

[applegrove]

17. Sounds good.

[dawg day]

38. I'm going to try that tomorrow.

For New Year's, we're supposed to make black-eyed beans, I think, but lentils will be tastier!

I'm also going to use some fish to make a fish-corn-chowder. Two soups for a very cold day.

[femmedem]

44. I hope everyone likes it as much as we did!

I live in Connecticut and it is soup weather for sure.

[peacebuzzard]

14. I make my own soups: vegetable broth with beans, usually.

And only this time of year.
I pre-cook the beans du jour for the “add to” vegetable mix. (I prefer black or sprouted lentil)
The vegetable mix will be whatever I can find fresh.
Vegetables are sautéed with garlic and olive oil before simmering for broth.
Easy, inexpensive and nutritious!

[applegrove]

18. Good idea. Making my own veggie broth sounds good. Especially since

my favourite fresh food store has just opened up nearby. Do you buy organic?

[peacebuzzard]

35. Yes. And I limit the salt.

Commercial soups have a heavy sodium content, which defeats a healthy diet.
Some of the ideas on this thread are great,! I am going to make a new batch today.

[Ohiogal]

15. Another great food blog

Budgetbytes.com

[applegrove]

24. Thanks.

[dawg day]

19. red pepper and tomato

There's a good version at Trader Joe's.

[applegrove]

22. Don't have a trader Joe's here. Hoping the Farm Boy here sells fresh veggie

soup though.

[diva77]

20. I love Mollie Katzen's recipe for Minestrone in the Moosewood Cookbook

vegetarian, low calorie, very filling & satisfying!!

[applegrove]

23. I will look it up in the summer.

[UTUSN]

25. "vegetable *FLAVORS*" you say, so here's my family BEEF (vegetable) soup!1

Really, it can be customized to be heavily tilted way over to the nearly ALL vegetable side of things!1


****************

INGREDIENTS: Some kind of soup-bone meat. SPICES: Salt, pepper, garlic (powder), cumin, tomato paste. VEGETABLES: Sweet potatoes, new potatoes, carrots, squash, celery, onion, kernel corn, cabbage.

* Layer the spices on both sides of the meat.

* Heat the soup container, add oil (am using grape seed oil now, instead of olive oil). As a DU chef said, when the wavy lines show up, that is the correct temperature. Brown the meat 3 minutes to a side.

* Add cold water, medium heat, boil the meat for 2-(3?) hours until it is tender. Skim off the meat stuff on the surface of the water.

* Use the boiling time to chop up the vegetables, rough cut/country/"peasant" style. Adding them into the pot in order of their hardness: The sweet potatoes and carrots hardest, until nearly cooked/soft; next the new potatoes; celery/onion; squash/cabbage last. I like the kernel corn to be crispy crunchy, so this goes last.

* At the end, some spoonsful of tomato paste, which is mainly for color. Cooking is not an issue with tomato stuff, since it gets bitter with cooking. Just COLOR.

**************** Accompany with heated/soft (not toasted) corn tortillas, heated via toaster.


***** The leftovers reheated the next day are even yummier, almost gruel-like texture.

[applegrove]

26. A little tomato in a vegetable soup goes a long way. There used to be

a restaurant in Ottawa that served something called Market Soup. It was to die for. That sounds similar.

[Lint Head]

27. Give it an hour and a half at least.

[applegrove]

29. I cheated and had ten corn chips with salsa. Will definitely have to add

a serving of carbs.

[rusty quoin]

32. Leek and potato and butternut squash are two of the healthiest I make.

It it all the veggies creating the taste, besides a few other ingredients. The other favorite is broccoli and cheese...but even that is better than any can. None of them are difficult.

[pangaia]

33. Some of the most delicious soups i ever have had are Japanese, Korean and Chinese

And some of the healthiest.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Try this.

It's a recipe very adapted from an original Middle Eastern one.

Chicken of Muchness

2 chicken leg quarters
3 or 4 carrots
2 cans of diced or crushed tomatoes
1 medium onion
1 small green pepper
3 or 4 cups of chicken broth
3 bay leaves
3 cinnammon sticks
½ to ¾ tsp each of celery salt, marjoram, thyme, basil, and tarragon
olive oil
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons flour

Bring the chicken to a boil with just enough water to cover. Turn heat down to simmer and skim off scum and fat that comes to the surface. This will take ten to fifteen minutes.

Once skimming is done, put the bay leaves, peeled carrots, and cinnamon sticks in pot with chicken, cover and let simmer for an hour.

Remove carrots and chicken. Let them cool while you sauté the sliced onion and green pepper in a little olive oil. You want them to get a little brown. Put in soup pot. Add the tomatoes.

Make a roux with the butter and flour in that same pan, then add a cup or two of broth. Stir and let it thicken over the heat until it seems thick enough. Pour into pot.

Cut up the carrots, strip the chicken from the bones and return to soup pot. Now add the other seasonings. You will probably need to add more chicken broth to have the right amount of liquid.

Cover and simmer for an hour or so.

Make rice, which takes about 20 minutes, when you’re ready to eat. Put rice in a bowl, then add the chicken of muchness. Ground pepper and some salt and enjoy!

[blaze]

36. Spicy Mulligatawny

Found this years ago on the Cooking Light website and it's been a favorite ever since.

It gets quite a kick from the combination of curry powder, ground ginger, and crushed red pepper, but you can halve those ingredients if you don't like spicy foods. I, on the other hand, LOVE spicy, so I buy hot mango chutney!

1 tablespoon vegetable oil, divided
1/2 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 cup chopped peeled Gala or Braeburn apple
3/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped carrot
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon curry powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 (14 1/2-ounce) cans fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
1/3 cup mango chutney
1/4 cup tomato paste Chopped fresh parsley (optional)


Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add chicken, and sauté 3 minutes. Remove from pan; set aside.

Heat 2 teaspoons oil in pan. Add apple and next 4 ingredients (apple through bell pepper); sauté 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in the flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through salt); cook 1 minute. Stir in broth, chutney, and tomato paste; bring to a boil.

Reduce heat; simmer 8 minutes. Return chicken to pan; cook 2 minutes or until mixture is thoroughly heated. Sprinkle with parsley, if desired.

[Generic Brad]

37. Pork Miso Soup

My wife makes a combination of Napa cabbage, carrots, pork, tofu, miso, crushed red pepper (and a few other seasonings and ingredients). It is delicious, hearty, and a great change of pace for soup.

[angstlessk]

39. When I was young, and wanting to live longer..Miso Soup w/barley

good for me and filling!

Now that I am 60+ I imbibe in Ramen Noodles!

Go figure?

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. I always like split pea

with smoked turkey instead of ham if possible.

[jpak]

41. Soupe Au Pois a Memere (French Canadian Pea Soup)

1 lb dried peas
1/4 cup grated carrots
8 cups water
1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
1/2 lb salt pork (or good ham diced!)
1 small bay leaf
1 large white onion chopped
1 tsp dried savory
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 tsp salt

Had this with Tourtiere pie Christmas Eve.

Hot pea soup on a cold winter's day can't be beat.

[applegrove]

42. Yum.

[diva77]

43. Andalusian Gazpacho -mmmmmmm

http://www.finecooking.com/recipe/andalusian-gazpacho

adding the bread is optional; can cut way back on the olive oil as well



btw, this is a cold soup