I made a soup! My first from-scratch, no cans or boxes, veggie soup.

[JHB]

Nothing fancy: an onion, a carrot, a tomato, cut up and boiled for about 20 min, add some cut up kale and some white wine, boil for almost another 10, add some chopped garlic for the last minute or two, and finish off with frozen peas (unthawed) to absorb a lot of the heat and bring it down to eating temperature pretty quickly. Still figuring out the "salt and pepper to taste" balance, and add some olive oil in the soup bowl.

I guess I'm going to find out how well it reheats, because I'm cooking for one and I have about 2-3 more bowls-worth in the pot.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

1. Soup is good food

I love it!

Enjoy!

[Duncanpup]

2. Enjoy sounds delicious

[SheltieLover]

3. Sounds delicious!

[BarbaRosa]

4. Soup recipes always grow,

but leftovers are great.

[PJMcK]

5. Well done

We like to make broths from the bones or carcasses of chickens, beef, etc. We freeze them and they come in handy when we're making other dishes.

Congrats and keep it up!

[yellowdogintexas]

14. so did we. If we had a turkey or hen the frame was boiled for broth

I find it amusing that something I learned how to do from my mother back in the 50s is suddenly this trendy bone broth thing.

My sister makes a bodacious turkey frame soup after Thanksgiving and or Christmas.

We roasted the beef soup bones before making the broth.

[leftieNanner]

6. Sounds Lovely

Consider adding a celery root next time. Adds a very nice flavor, the texture of potatoes.

Wash, peel, and dice.

[druidity33]

10. I'll second that...

even just one stalk of celery. Carrot, Onion, Celery cooked in oil until translucent. It's the base of a multitude of good soups!

K&R.

To Soup!

[sheshe2]

7. I make lots of soups.

Try an emulsion blender as well for creamed soup. I sometimes split my soup, blend some and add it to the base. Makes a thicker soup. The emulsion blender takes a minute. Wonderful tool.

[brewens]

8. I haven't bought a can of soup or chili for a couple years. If I want soup, I make it from scratch.

I'm doing chicken noodle tomorrow. I roasted a whole chicken and do the whole process to make soup from it. I do the same with hams and turkeys. This summer when I can get good tomatoes, I'll try my first tomato soup.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Keep some bay leaves in your spice drawer.

They are good to use in just about any kind of soup. Just put one in at the start and remove before eating. Your soup sounds good. If it's like most soups it will get even better when you reheat it.

[brewens]

11. One real easy soup is the Hambeans 15 bean soup mix. It's just a bag of beans with a pork

flavoring packet and a recipe on the bag. I like making it with a pound of Polish sausage. It has a little of the beanie weenie flavor that way. The only work is chopping an onion. You have to soak the beans overnight if I remember right. Otherwise, it doesn't take much time either.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. when I buy a ready to eat roast chicken, I use the frame for broth.

Fantastic stuff.

[badhair77]

12. Soup is a great meal

and even better when you make it yourself. Congrats. Good for you.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. I got a pork bone from a roast and some leftover stock. Some veggies, mini pasta and it's soup!

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Potato Soup (compliments of Julia Child)

Onions
butter
potatoes
chicken broth
milk or cream


Dice the onions and saute in the butter. add the diced potatoes and stir them around in the butter and onions for a bit. cover with chicken broth and simmer until potatoes are tender.

Take about half of the potato chunks and put them in a blender or food processor, then enough of the hot broth from the saucepan to cover, and at least 1/2 cup of milk or cream. Additional butter is also kind of nice.

Blend this all up and pour it back into the soup pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring it all to temperature and serve.

Garlic can be added with the onions, and chives can go on top if you want to be decorative.

The result is a lovely creamy soup base with chunks of potato floating around.

I would definitely substitute skim milk if need be but never ever use margarine. Put your fat in the butter for crying out loud

[tishaLA]

17. Mmmm. Now I'm thinking today would have been a great day

for pasta e fagioli.

[wendyb-NC]

18. Sounds really good

Soup often tastes better on the 2nd and 3rd day. Cooking for one can be a challenge. I often make a pasta casserole, like baked ziti, with veggie sausage, cheese and tomato sauce. I get 6 servings, out of an 8 inch square, glass baking pan.

[JHB]

19. Since this somehow made the front page "trending now", I guess I'll add some context

I share a kitchen with housemates, and have very limited storage space for assorted kitchenware (especially appliances and storage containers), and I only cook for myself, so from-scratch isn't always the way for me to go. Add to that: when cooking for one, a lot of store-bought stuff is competitive price-wise, and avoids conflicts for kitchen time (a more acute matter in a COVID world, where my housemates and I try to minimize "shared space" time).

Still, I consider not being able to prepare a decent meal for yourself a bit of a personal lack, but had been operating at a somewhat minimal level for too long.

Enter coming across a video by Adam Ragusea which nicked my sense of humor and was KISS simple ("Keep It Simple, Stupid!" ), so I lined up what I needed and finally gave it a go. The first step in what I hope is a matter of getting off the sidelines and doing instead of watching.

[Kali]

24. great video

reminds me of this video - just put the fucking turkey in the oven!

[Nanuke]

20. Yea!

I make soup every week. I save my vegetable peels and cuttings to make stock in my InstaPot cooker. Yum.

[lillypaddle]

21. Some dried basil

is always a good addition. Your soup sounds great, I bet it's just the first of many soup pots ahead.

[L. Coyote]

22. My soups often start with frozen garden tomatoes, ...

... a couple of ziplock quarts full of them thawed slowly on the wood stove. They go through the food mill to separate the seeds and skins, then I slow cook chicken in the juice with fresh garden carrots roasting on top. I still have carrots in the ground overwintering. I usually add garlic, chopped onion, powdered dried shitake, pepper, and a bit of chili powder. The juice becomes broth stock for soup making a day or two later. Sometimes I'll use it to start a batch of chili, usually vegetable soup. I like a bit of cumin and tumeric to season a tomato base soup and I add a bit of refried beans if they are in the refrigerator. The leftover carrots and a few vegetables in a slow cook on the wood stove, very slow boil/simmer at the most, and the process is done.

[Blue Owl]

23. It's a cold day for Gazpacho

The warm stuff is where it’s at!!!

[Vinca]

25. The great part about making soup is you don't need a recipe. Just add stuff you like and

stir in something to make it soupy like broth or a light cream sauce or leftover gravy thinned a bit. It's a great way to use up leftovers, too.