Vegetable beef and pearled spelt soup. It’s my first time using spelt in soup, I prefer barley.
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Vegetable beef and pearled spelt soup. It’s my first time using spelt in soup, I prefer barley.
Soup du jour - started yesterday
Is it soup yet?
Yep.
Is it soup yet?
Yep.
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.
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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.
Homemade ham and bean soup with cornbread and a homebrew
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The Spousal Unit was jonesing for minestrone so she built some for dinner. Had it with BLTs. Very good!
Cheers!
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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?
No, I slurp out all the broth first, and leave the "stew" for last.
Pork chop soup. A couple pork chops, potatoes, broccoli, purple carrot, celery and onion.
Is that a La Crusset?
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!
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!
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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.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!
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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.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!
This was 2020
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Chicken vegetable with orzo and lemon on a grey rainy day. Snow is expected tomorrow this will be the perfect thing to have.
Today's soup in 30min, Rhode Island style clam chowder based on this recipe
https://www.bowlofdelicious.com/rhode-island-clam-chowder/
Rhodies are simple folk but that does look tasty!
Cheers! (It's all good as long as it's not Manhattan Style!
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but that does look tasty!Cheers! (It's all good as long as it's not Manhattan Style!
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Why have I not seen this thread before, I love soup!
Two weeks ago Chicken noodle
Last weeks tortilla soup
Two weeks ago Chicken noodle
Last weeks tortilla soup
Tonight for dinner. Buffalo Chicken Chili topped with crumbled bleu cheese and a slice of homemade bread.
Duck soup with noodles, mushrooms and mixed vegetables.
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I'm eating the last of my wife's contribution to the rock club's potluck dinner, a delicious chicken taco soup. Lots of corn and beans, just enough green and red chile to make bold statement.
I just found this thread also! My wife made homemaid turkey soup with some leftovers from our Thanksgiving turkey awhile back. It was delish!
Homemade chicken soup kind of day.
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Back in September, just before leaving France for the winter, we harvested the last of the tomatoes, leeks, and carrots and froze them. We left a bunch of carrots in the ground, they were too small to mess with. The first night we were back here, we ate across the street at a brother's house, his wife made a pot of soup that was thin and lacking any real flavor. The next day a sister invited us over for soup, it was better. So my wife made a pot of soup her way, with a frozen tomato, leeks, some of the carrots from the garden, and potatoes. And she used green onions, chives, and herbs from the garden. Her soup was thick, and very flavorful compared to the others we had this week.
Bought 10# of really cheap IQF whiting a while back. Tried every way of cooking it I could think of and none of it was good. Finally found an Italian fish stew recipe that it works pretty well in. Add grated Parmesan and red chili flakes.
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That looks good to me. Spicy additions make bland fish exciting. I used to make a generic fish Monterrey(supposed to be snapper but I cant get that here). Fish with bell peppers, green chiles, and jalapenos in tomato sauce. Put enough spice and it doesn't matter what the fish is.
Chili.
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We've got a cold, rainy spell coming up. A bucket of great chile sounds perfect. What kind of meat do you use? I prefer cubes of pork but have made it with a variety of meats. In France lots of people use cinnamon instead of red chile, it's not my style at all.
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I feel like if it doesn’t have chili in it it’s not chili.
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We had a chili "cookoff" 20 years ago with several of the family members, mine was the only one with the predominant flavor being red chile. They don't do spicy food here(in general), though there are some exceptions especially with the folks who have traveled extensively overseas. A couple of times a month we'll cook a New Mexico style meal for ourselves, just to keep our taste buds calibrated. I harvested seeds from some Moroccan hot green chiles and cayennes I grew last year, I hope to plant them soon so we have a steady supply of heat.
It’s a crappy day outside so I made hot and sour soup for lunch. I was hungry and ended up botching the egg swirl because I was rushing. Tasted fine, though, and it made me sweat a bit while eating it.
I'd eat the hell out that "botched" job.
Hey @Rish do you happen to have a recipe for this soup? On Saturday I started my first batch of Limoncello and we were wondering what to do with the leftover lemons. Decided on on Avgolemono soup. We weren't happy with the recipe we found online, but yours looks delicious. Would you care to share the recipe? Feel free to PM me if you'd prefer.
Hey, @BongoYodeler . Here is the link to the recipe I use. We really like it. Great way to use those extra lemons. Hope it works for you.
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/avgolemono-soup-recipe/
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/avgolemono-soup-recipe/
