Soup

[Mutant]

Thanksgiving I roasted a duck. The leftovers became duck soup. Then a week ago, I bought six pounds of beef short ribs to make soup. Yesterday I cooked a whole chicken just for chicken stock and chicken soup. Duck soup is far better than chicken soup. I'm considering the addition of some duck fat to the chicken soup just to bring it up a level. The beef short ribs were great with early potatoes, carrots, ...

 

[corkybstewart]

Just under 3 gallons of pumpkin/carrot/leek soup for the gem and mineral club Christmas dinner tonight.

 

[AzOr]

No pics but a Hmong friend of ours bright over curry soup. She also brought a plate of fixings’ that included; cilantro, red onion, basil, mint, lime, cabbage and cooked sliced pork.

It had a little kick to it and was dang tasty.

The fixins plate reminded me of my mom’s pozole, minus the basil and mint.

I love big bowls of soup where you can dress it up w a bunch of fresh herbs and stuff.

A pic of the leftovers. The soup has chicken, meatballs, bamboo shoots, quail eggs and some other stuff I couldn’t identify. One of the best soups I’ve had.

 

[corkybstewart]

A pic of the leftovers. The soup has chicken, meatballs, bamboo shoots, quail eggs and some other stuff I couldn’t identify. One of the best soups I’ve had.
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That looks wonderful

 

[BongoYodeler]

Clam stew, Italian style, (actually more like a soup), with a slice of fresh Kalamata olive bread, and a glass or two of wine.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

On top we have red lentil soup. I wanted to have it the way it is from a Turkish restaurant I frequent, needs more tomato and red bell pepper.
Below that is another turkey soup. Leftover rice this time.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I found a bunch of thick leeks at the market today, and it’s freezing. Potato leek soup before the dairy on top.
Finished with some milk and a couple oz of heavy cream below. Rustic, not puréed and put through a sieve.

 

[corkybstewart]

Good, plain, old fashioned chicken soup down here. It's our first cold day since back in November so soup is perfect.

 

[corkybstewart]

Well, I screwed up my wife's chicken soup. She was making her soup on the front burner, I was boiling the chicken bones for stock on the back burner and apparently I spilled some peppercorns into her soup. She's mildly allergic to black pepper and hates the taste so I'm in the doghouse.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Well, I screwed up my wife's chicken soup. She was making her soup on the front burner, I was boiling the chicken bones for stock on the back burner and apparently I spilled some peppercorns into her soup. She's mildly allergic to black pepper and hates the taste so I'm in the doghouse.

Bummer. But on the other hand, does that doghouse also come with a big pot of spicy chicken soup? I'm just trying to help you find a tiny hint of light in that otherwise darkened doghouse.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Vegetable beef and pearled spelt soup. It’s my first time using spelt in soup, I prefer barley.

 

[ba-brewer]

Soup du jour - started yesterday

Is it soup yet?

Yep.

 

[Tony B]

Soup kinda thing. Similar to something my great grandma used to make. I never got her recipe, but it’s pretty close. Very basic. Ground meat, turkey in this case, potatoes and green beans. Basic seasoning and tomato bullion with a little beef broth.

 

[corkybstewart]

My wife made a simple butternut squash soup last night, perfect for our cold and snowy day. Just butternut, carrots onion and garlic, blended to a nice puree.

 

[bwible]

Homemade ham and bean soup with cornbread and a homebrew

 

[day_trippr]

The Spousal Unit was jonesing for minestrone so she built some for dinner. Had it with BLTs. Very good!

Cheers!

 

[Rish]

Beef and barley soup. Great for these near freezing temps in Alabama. Do any of y'all eat the veg and grain first and save the tasty beef for last like I do?

 

[BongoYodeler]

Beef and barley soup. Great for these near freezing temps in Alabama. Do any of y'all eat the veg and grain first and save the tasty beef for last like I do?
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No, I slurp out all the broth first, and leave the "stew" for last.

 

[Tony B]

Pork chop soup. A couple pork chops, potatoes, broccoli, purple carrot, celery and onion.

 

[bwible]

The Spousal Unit was jonesing for minestrone so she built some for dinner. Had it with BLTs. Very good!

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Cheers!

Is that a La Crusset?

 

[day_trippr]

Le Creuset - and of course!
That orange round one I bought for The Spousal Unit when we bought our first home almost 47 years ago.
We have a couple of others - a big oval green one and a smaller round blue one - and use them a lot.

Cheers!

[edit] Holy crap! I just checked out the Le Creuset site to see what's up these days and the prices are outtasight now! Our green oval dutch oven lists at $475, the orange round one is $460, and our small round blue one is $420. Yikes!

 

[bwible]

Le Creuset - and of course!
That orange round one I bought for The Spousal Unit when we bought our first home almost 47 years ago.
We have a couple of others - a big oval green one and a smaller round blue one - and use them a lot.

Cheers!

[edit] Holy crap! I just checked out the Le Creuset site to see what's up these days and the prices are outtasight now! Our green oval dutch oven lists at $475, the orange round one is $460, and our small round blue one is $420. Yikes!

I thought so. I’m glad you saw the prices. I’m a big fan of America’s Test Kitchen. I watched it all the time. I have 16 seasons on dvd. It was always their #1 rating.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

A little green chile stew for dinner.

 

[corkybstewart]

Le Creuset - and of course!
That orange round one I bought for The Spousal Unit when we bought our first home almost 47 years ago.
We have a couple of others - a big oval green one and a smaller round blue one - and use them a lot.

Cheers!

[edit] Holy crap! I just checked out the Le Creuset site to see what's up these days and the prices are outtasight now! Our green oval dutch oven lists at $475, the orange round one is $460, and our small round blue one is $420. Yikes!

We bought similar pots from Walmart for ourselves, and both kids for $40 , 20 years ago. We all use them on a very regular basis, ours weekly.

 

[bwible]

This was 2020

 

[IslandLizard]

We bought similar pots from Walmart for ourselves, and both kids for $40 , 20 years ago. We all use them on a very regular basis, ours weekly.

Similarly here, from Sam's Club @ ~$40 each. Got 2 of them, well over 10 years ago.
Not as chic as Le Creuset, and don't come in larger sizes, but they do their job well.

 

[InspectorJon]

I have a Lodge enamel cast iron Dutch oven. It has been my main pot for soup and braising since I got it 15 or 20 years ago. It works great. My mom had Le Cruset. It was tangibly better. It stayed cleaner and just had a nicer feel. The enamel was smoother and I think harder. I couldn’t bring myself to pay the difference in price but I liked using mom’s more.

My daughter has the Le Cruset now and I am sure she will be able to pass it on to her granddaughter. It is a once in a lifetime investment. If you can afford it, buy it while you are still young and you won’t regret it.

Some ferment beer in fancy stainless steel conical fermenters will all the bells and whistles. Others use plastic buckets or old glass Alhambra water bottles. They both work and make good beer.

 

[bwible]

I have a Lodge enamel cast iron Dutch oven. It has been my main pot for soup and braising since I got it 15 or 20 years ago. It works great. My mom had Le Cruset. It was tangibly better. It stayed cleaner and just had a nicer feel. The enamel was smoother and I think harder. I couldn’t bring myself to pay the difference in price but I liked using mom’s more.

My daughter has the Le Cruset now and I am sure she will be able to pass it on to her granddaughter. It is a once in a lifetime investment. If you can afford it, buy it while you are still young and you won’t regret it.

Some ferment beer in fancy stainless steel conical fermenters will all the bells and whistles. Others use plastic buckets or old glass Alhambra water bottles. They both work and make good beer.

We also have the Lodge. I think it was $79 or something like that. We don’t use it all the time. 4 or 5 times a year probably.

 

[corkybstewart]

We also have the Lodge. I think it was $79 or something like that. We don’t use it all the time. 4 or 5 times a year probably.

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Looks more like a beautiful cat than a pot. Maybe I should start drinking heavy again, my vision is going bad.

 

[bwible]

Looks more like a beautiful cat than a pot. Maybe I should start drinking heavy again, my vision is going bad.

He’s gone now, had complete kidney failure. We had to put him down right before Christmas 2023. He was quite a character. That pot wasn’t out of that box more than 2 minutes.