SOUP ! (ah yeah! the Recipe thread)

[remybalon]

I'm making some soup. Because it's getting cold. Because I have nothing else to eat. It's Sweet Potato Vegetable Soup..... I hope it's good!

Anyone have sweet recipes?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
;)

[Philip]

Red lentil soup:

Ingredients:
2 onions
2 cloves garlic
2 1/2 dl red lentils (about one cup)
1 piece of ginger
12 dl vegetable stock (about 5 cups)
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 tbl spoons curry powder (or currypaste if you prefer that)
lemon juice

finely chop onions + garlic. Soften in some oil. Add lentils, grated ginger, stock and spices (salt, pepper). Let the soup simmer until the lentils are completely dissolved. Add the lemon juice when the soup is done. The amount of curry you use is up to you - want it hot use more, mild use less etc. Oh yeah, it's also nice to add some chopped parsley in the end. This is delicious trust me!

[frankenweeny]

.... soup.... mmm... drool...... :wizard:

.... don't really have any receipes.... just kind of throw it all in and hope for the best.....

.... and if it's strong and strapping enough to eat with a fork, all the better!!!....

... but can never go wrong with chilli's.......

[joely]

i was just thinking about this! im serious. i just made some salmon fillets with wild rice yum, and soem gaucamole, and remembered the guac thread i started a long time ago. :)

[remybalon]

Originally posted by new monkey
i was just thinking about this! im serious. i just made some salmon fillets with wild rice yum, and soem gaucamole, and remembered the guac thread i started a long time ago. :)


ahhhh!

Don't even get me started on Guac.

:-D

[joely]

Originally posted by remybalon
ahhhh!

Don't even get me started on Guac.

:-D

go for it!

[remybalon]

Ok.... Just finished the soup.... For anyone who gives a crap.... Here's recipe... And honestly.... It's good.

SWEET POTATO VEGETABLE
----------------------
- carrot
- onion
- celery (you know, the trinity!)
- 2 vegetable boullion cubes... or veg. stock.
- a couple cloves garlic
- 2 cooked sweet potatoes
- 3-4 tomatoes
- barley
- salt,pepper,bay leave

Ok..... Peep this.

Sautee the carrot, onion, celery in a touch of olive oil and margarine..... Quickly cut the sweet potato into slices or something bite sized.... throw those in.... then toss in ONE boullion cube... sautee man... sautee.... then throw in.... tomatoes(with juice), smashed garlic, bay leave..... add about six cups of water..... (or so.... it will cook down...) bring to boil.... throw in barley..... salt, pepper it.........
then wait until the barley is cooked through......
when this happens..... do a little dance.... make a little love...... then bust out a bowl..... remove the bay leaf.... dispense...... serve with a little Gruyere cheese on top... or whatever you have... cheez whiz might work... kidding... then dig in....... then come back here to sweet addy with a full belly and spread the love.... or at least the lust.

ok.
that went well.
:cool:

[pinkyswear]

Originally posted by new monkey
go for it!


my cat "guacamole" is sick with an abcess on his neck. He won't come out from under the house to go to the vet...:( that's all the guac input i have.

[joely]

Originally posted by the rum diary
my cat "guacamole" is sick with an abcess on his neck. He won't come out from under the house to go to the vet...:( that's all the guac input i have. sorry to hear that, hope little buddy gets better

[alexandra]

Originally posted by remybalon
ahhhh!

Don't even get me started on Guac.

:-D

Quoc?!

[sayonaraSam]

Soup rules, mostly the ones my mom makes.. it's not really soup, in german it's called "Eintopf", I think the english word is stew...stuff where the spoon doesn't fall over when you stick it in hehehe.. carrot soup, potato soup, bean soup with vinegar and sugar and a lot of other stuff in it.. and a lot more.. all of them have little parts of sausages in it... hmmmm...
And close to where I work a soup-bar opened up, called Soupreme.. http://www.soupreme.org they even have some recipes on their site :)

[goblinski]

Nothing beats Borsch. As far as I remember:

Fry short beef ribs in butter, chuck in lots of beef stock and an onion, boil, then throw in some cabbage, and some root vegetables of your choosing (sweet potato, parsnips and turnips are good) and any extra stock (duck or chicken is good) keeping on stirring. Meanwhile, boil some beetroots, blanch off the skins (conserving the red water), chop 'em and chuck 'em in to the beef, boil. Finally add the beetroot water. Boil down (But don't liquidise out the lumps - it should be a bouillon with lumps of veg in it). Secret ingredients are caraway seeds and a final squirt of lemon. Should be served with soured cream. This soup could solve wars.

[frankenweeny]

....haha..i'm really feeling the little dance.....definately the most essential ingredient :D ....

[remybalon]

Back by popular demand!

THE SOUP THREAD!

Post yer recipes.... Share your stories!


:-D :drool: :-D

[Eliana]

I love soup! Soup is my second favourite food. After bananas. Soup is fantastic.

My grandma makes an amazing thick bean-barley-veggie soup. It's incredible. I'll dig up the recipe sometime :)

[frankenweeny]

......by jingo ....by crikey balon!......

.....is there nothing you can't do????..

..... lazarus soup thread!!!.....lazarus soup thread!!!!....

....watch it rise from a miso inspired haze.......

........ :D...... :D .......

......sooooooooop..........mmmmmmmm.......... :D ......

....k....

...carrotts....squash them......

.......garlic....squash them....

....... brocoli....squash them....

...lentils...squash them.....

....... chilli....bit of salt...bit of black peppah....

....and lots and lots of finely grated ginger......oooh yeh......... :drool:

....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

[creatrix]

Apple-butternut Soup!

I had this at a restaurant in Vermont & went home & tried to make it. I think I did pretty well. Here's what I came up with:

Core & peel 3 granny smith apples

Cut & scoop the seeds out of one good-sized butternut squash.

Nuke both until they are soft & squishy - the squash takes much longer than the apples.

Put soft & squishy apples into blender.

Scoop out soft & squishy squash stuff & put into blender with some apple cider & a bit of cream. Not much cream is needed, but if you're health-conscious, fat free half & half does well.

Liquify. You can adjust sweetness of soup by adjusting the cider-to-cream ratio, so you might want to add these gradually as you blend, tasting frequently. You can make it without any cider at all, if you want - it's still kinda sweet - but I personally like the cider.

Season with nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, cloves... maybe a bit of salt & pepper... just make it so it's good! It's surprisingly easy!!

[the grace]

Originally posted by goblinski
Nothing beats Borsch. As far as I remember:

Fry short beef ribs in butter, chuck in lots of beef stock and an onion, boil, then throw in some cabbage, and some root vegetables of your choosing (sweet potato, parsnips and turnips are good) and any extra stock (duck or chicken is good) keeping on stirring. Meanwhile, boil some beetroots, blanch off the skins (conserving the red water), chop 'em and chuck 'em in to the beef, boil. Finally add the beetroot water. Boil down (But don't liquidise out the lumps - it should be a bouillon with lumps of veg in it). Secret ingredients are caraway seeds and a final squirt of lemon. Should be served with soured cream. This soup could solve wars.

YUM!! i love barszcz! have you had the summer version that is served cold - its called chlodnik and would also solve many a conflict :drool:

[taraldor7]

One word, DUMPLINGS!!!!!

[remybalon]

Originally posted by taraldor7
One word, DUMPLINGS!!!!!
SOUP DUMPLINGS >????

[taraldor7]

Used to be chicken soup with dumplings, now vegitarian soup with dumplings. Any soup thats a little bit thick, and preferably containing peas will work.

[remybalon]

Originally posted by taraldor7
Used to be chicken soup with dumplings, now vegitarian soup with dumplings. Any soup thats a little bit thick, and preferably containing peas will work.
yer speaking my language.
;)

[taraldor7]

What's with the sad face?

[remybalon]

Originally posted by taraldor7
What's with the sad face?
oh... uh... i'm winking!

No sad faces in the SOUP THREAD!

:-D

[remybalon]

and by the way...

i love you too.

(such manners!)

[taraldor7]

:love: happy smiley soup thread :love:

[remybalon]

oh, SNAP!

[thayes]

Originally posted by remybalon
I'm making some soup. Because it's getting cold. Because I have nothing else to eat. It's Sweet Potato Vegetable Soup..... I hope it's good!

Anyone have sweet recipes?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
;)

aah gooooood! you brought it back ! i wasnt around yet for the "old" one but i am here now! :-)
i could use some recipes.

[remybalon]

Originally posted by thayes
aah gooooood! you brought it back ! i wasnt around yet for the "old" one but i am here now! :-)
i could use some recipes.
Well, it's not thaaaaaat old...
But it was a couple months ago...
and i was hungry...
and i love soup.
and i will be posting some more recipes... soon.

and i'm glad yer here now.
:-D

[simpsonopraphic]

I had this spicy jalapeno pumpkin soup once, it was so damn good. A friend of mine has been trying to figure out how to make something close, but I fear she will never find out.

PS I usually hate soup

PPS and cake

[remybalon]

Originally posted by simpsonopraphic
I had this spicy jalapeno pumpkin soup once, it was so damn good. A friend of mine has been trying to figure out how to make something close, but I fear she will never find out.

PS I usually hate soup

PPS and cake
That sounds awesome. Do share sometime.

But please, for the love of god...
Don't let your usual hate of soup spread to
the beautiful soup thread. It's all love in here.
No Sad Faces - No hate.
:-D

[simpsonopraphic]

What about my anti-cake agenda?

[remybalon]

Oh... and here's a link, straight to my fav dudes page.
Yup. Jamie Oliver.

He's awesome. Love him.

And there's a few soup recipes... and he updates.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cats/soups.php

enjoy.

[remybalon]

Originally posted by simpsonopraphic
What about my anti-cake agenda?
ooh. uh... maybe start an anti-cake thread?
:-D

although... i don't think it will go over well...
:fair warning:

hehe.

[classicalangel]

Wow! Recipies! Yay! That said, here goes.


Traditional Noland Family Chicken Soup Recipie( known to cure any illness yet encountered)

-two chicken breasts
-four cups water
-salt and pepper
-chicken stock
-two handfuls medium egg noodles
-a few shakes storebought Italian seasoning


Boil chicken in water for ten minutes(any more, and the chicken will get tough). Remove and slice into bite size pieces. Add salt, pepper and enough chicken stock until it tastes strong enough, but not enough to make it taste fake. Add egg noodles and Italian seasoning and boil until noodles are tender. Add chicken pieces back in before serving.

[thayes]

Originally posted by remybalon
and i'm glad yer here now.
:-D

well thank you! i like being here! :-D

[remybalon]

!pagetwo!

[frankenweeny]

........hahaha......

....shameless balon bumpage....... :D .......

[Anjy]

I just made the bomb diggityist Pot Roast, like, ever. I fooled around with ingredients to come up with my own recipe and hot damn! if it didn't turn out most delicious:

3 lb beef chuck roast (any good quality roast, don’t skimp, it makes a big difference)
3 or 4 TBSP Olive oil
1 med Onion, chopped
Teaspoon of minced or chopped garlic
Big dash of Rosemary leafs
Big dash of Thyme leafs
Kosher salt (to taste)
Black or white pepper (to taste)
2 TBSP of red wine vinegar
4 beef bullion cubes
2 cups of water
Mustard powder
4 strips of thick sliced bacon strips, sliced in pieces
4 med potatoes
Bundle of carrots cut into larger pieces
1 oven bag with tie (you can get them in the isle next to the sandwich baggies and tinfoil, etc.)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

In a small saucepan put in bullion cubes and 2 cups of water and red wine vinegar and boil for a bit.

In a large skillet get olive oil hot and crisp up the pieces of bacon, add chopped onion and cook until caramelized. Next add all spices except for mustard powder. Cook until everything is all caramelized and kind of golden brown.

While spice mixture is cooking cut up carrots and potatoes into chunky, bite sized pieces.

Add a couple of TBSPs of flour in bottom of oven bag and shake (it helps to keep the roast from sticking to the bottom of the bag, plus will help form a organic, thick meat gravy from all the juices). Place bag in large, rectangle shaped (a deep lasagna pan works great, or even a disposable tin one from the store). Make sure the sides of the bag are totally inside the pan to protect bag from catching on fire in oven.

After the spice mixture is cooked add to the broth mixture and stir.

Blot off roast with paper towels and sprinkle a pinch of kosher salt on both sides. Rub a liberal amount of mustard powder on both sides as well.

In the same skillet that the bacon spice mixture was cooked in sear meat on both sides until it gets a nice crispy layer on the tops. Place roast in oven bag and pile carrots and potatoes around it on bottom.

Add spice mixture back into skillet and deglaze pan. Make sure to scrap all the crunchy meat particles into the sauce. Boil for a few minutes. Ladle mixture over roast and vegetables. Close bag up with tie, making sure to leave a tiny opening for ventilation.

Bake for 3 hours or until vegetables are tender. Meat should fall apart. Enjoy!

I also made lentils as a side dish too. Follow directions on back of package and add a couple TBSPs of olive oil, dried cilantro, package of Lipton onion soup mix, worchester sauce, bullion cubes, kosher salt, pepper, ginger, thyme, garlic powder, basil.

Serve all of the above with a yummy glass of red wine.

[thayes]

wooow, thats a good looking recipe... i am going to look into that! thanks! :-D

[classicalangel]

that's an awsome looking recipie. It makes me want to go out and buy a pot roast. :-)

[Anjy]

It really turned out so yummy. My family just raved and raved and of course we stuffed ourselves. :-D

[joely]

Ingredients

1 jar of Grape Jelly
1 Jar of Peanut Butter
1 loaf of Bread

directions

Remove 2 slices of bread
spread jelly on one slice
spread peanut butter on other
stick wet sides against each other
cut off crust
enjoy
repeat
enjoy
repeat
enjoy

*Optional

Glass of milk

[Odie]

Originally posted by new monkey
Ingredients

1 jar of Grape Jelly
1 Jar of Peanut Butter
1 loaf of Bread

directions

Remove 2 slices of bread
spread jelly on one slice
spread peanut butter on other
stick wet sides against each other
cut off crust
enjoy
repeat
enjoy
repeat
enjoy

*Optional

Glass of milk
don't forget to puree that. otherwise it wouldn't be soup.

i'd like to share the recipe i use for pinto bean soup. but i don't have it with me right now. i'll try to post it later.

[thayes]

i alwayes use nutella and jelly, i dont like peanut butter tooo much.... but i love nutella, ever treid it?

[pinkyswear]

i just had tortilla soup...yummmm!

It was sooo good i didn't bother to wait for it to cool, and now i have a tongue burn.:-o

[Somebody'sBaby]

Wildflower Bread Co. has THE best Potato Cream Cheese soup!! I had some tonight in a bread boule :-p :-p :-p :-p

[remybalon]

From the depths of the seas! Back to the block! Snoop Doggy-Dogg funky as the-the-the.... well, you get the
drift.

I just made soup tonight and thought I'd stir up this
old thread (pun intended) from the thread junkyard.

Here's what it was:

Summer Corn Chowder!

- Onions
- Garlic
- 5/7 ears Fresh Cut-from-Cob Corn
- Roasted Pepper
- 2 Potatoes
- Cayenne/Salt/Pepper
- 4.5 C Veg Broth

Sautee Onions and Garlic in olive oil. Toss in the
corn and diced roasted peppers. Add Broth and
potatoes. Hit it with the first round of spices.
Let cook until potatoes are cooked through. (At this
point, if you want you can ladel a couple scoops of
soup into a blender, blend and transfer back.)
Then, either spice to taste and either serve hot
or chill for a nice summer evening meal.

I dig this with toasted pita chips, too.

Mmmmmmm. Soup!
:bear:

[PatienceLeadSinger]

The retirement home I used to work at made a kick ass italian wedding soup. Damn, i wish I could find the recipe to that.

:beer: :drunk: :cat: :angel:

[remybalon]

:bump:

(for fall's sake)

[tasha]

:love:

wow...a soup thread? :love:

in the last couple of months i've made minestrone, borscht, chicken soup, and captain bob's potato cheese soup...my freezer never had it so good :heart:

i don't know about these chicken soup recipes that say the meat gets tough if you cook it more than ten minutes...the last chicken soup i made i cooked the whole bird on low heat for three days and the meat was fine...the key to chicken soup is to get all the good stuffs out of the bones...that broth turned out so fine the only seasoning i needed for the actual soup was one bay leaf...if you need to, you can always take the chicken out and cool it after a half hour or hour and remove the meat and then return the skin and bones back to the pot for the rest of the cooking...

most of my soups take a long time...i make a garlic broth for the minestrone...but captain bob's potato cheese soup is pretty easy and doesn't take long and is VERY good on cold nights...

saute onions and celery in one cube butter - low heat (i use one good size onion and all but the outer 3 or 4 stalks of celery - you want the leafy heart cut up in soup!)
peel and cut up 6-7 large potatoes and toss them in and stir well
add just enough water to cover the potatoes and bring to boil - cook until potatoes are soft
put a collandar into a large bowl and dump the pot - you want to keep the liquid
mash the potatoes and return liquid and potatoes to pot
add a good amount of Spike - it's an excellent flavoring for all soups but it's critical you use it in this soup
cook the soup on low for 10 minutes or so and taste - add any other seasonings you like but go easy on the salt
shred 1 pound mild cheddar cheese and stir into the soup (this is why you go easy on the salt)
when the cheese is melted - dinner is ready!

you can add broccoli or any other veggis you like to this...it's a little soupy the first night but after you refrigerate and reheat it - it thickens...

:love: