It's getting to be soup season. What are your favorite soups?

It’s split pea or ham and potato for me.

In my mind, soup is just a technique that’s really about the stock. This is just me suggesting that you all should adopt traditional French cooking technique.

For me, it’s saving old chicken scraps and certain veggies and then cooking them until they are mush in water. Grocery store rotisserie chicken skin, bones, and juice; carrots, onions, celery, garlic. Anything getting past it’s prime. No brassicas though. I’ll throw a t bone in there, but while really good beef broth is amazing, good beef bones cost as much as real beef.

Clam juice or shrimp/crab/lobster shells sauteed in butter with water (or the aforementioned stock…) Is also awesome.

Once you’ve got that, just put anything in it. That’s good soup.

Make sure that you put the correct amount of salt in it. If there’s no salt, stock tastes terrible.

happyhippo,

Ribollita

PenPalMoment,

Healthy pleaser has been butternut squash and harvest veggies soup. Favorite junkier soup is cheesy lasagna soup.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
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Queso

I’m trying to find my recipe but serious eats has a good one for not having to use Velveeta. Use evaporated milk and cornstarch with your shredded cheese. That’s their recipe. Then I throw in some cumin and rotel and diced chiles. Maybe taco meat if it’s the main dish. Sometimes avocado.

sevan,

My wife just made a favorite of mine: gnocchi soup with spicy turkey sausage.

JakoJakoJako13,
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It’s been Souptober at my house for the weekends this month. Started with a beef barley stew. Then chicken noodle. Then a chilli. Next I’m trying to make a crab soup or french onion soup. Gonna finish it off with chicken and dumplings. I just need a tomato based soup to squeeze in there during the week.

anon6789,
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Did see someone mention chicken tortilla and pasta fagioli which reminded me it’s been too long since I’ve made either of those, but I haven’t seen anyone recommend my personal fav, beef barley!

If anyone’s got a good pozole recipe, I’d love to check that out also!

ElectricAirship,
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Cauliflower, potato, and pea soup!!

FuglyDuck,
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For some inexplicable reason, all my soups turn into stews. It’s a mystery, really.

In any case I’ve been experimenting with chili- cooking off andouille sausage for its fond, starting with a sofrito sort of thing using fine chopped onion and celery, garlic towards the end, ginger. deglaze with booze- I’ve been settling to burbon, but white wine was fairly neutral. Enough water for the sofrito to cook down into almost nothingness, followed by the pepper purée.

That’s been a mix of sweet peppers, serano and smoked red chili’s that I’ve grown fresh, mostly aiming for a more mild heat.

Once that’s hot and simmering and cohesive, it’s the beef, I use rump cut into smallish pieces, that I first marinate with fish sauce and some extra booze. (Don’t worry the fish sauce only smells awful until you cook it.) some lime and orange zest, and lime juice. simmer until heavenly.

Other stews are chicken stew (lemon and white wine stock cooks down wonderfully. Add what ever vegetables you’d like- carrots, celery, onion, maybe green beans.). This finds its way into pot pie as often as not;

the GF’s go to is mushrooms soup. I’ll also go to town with a creamy pea soup if I can get my hands on a ham hock.

PetDinosaurs,

Soups/stews exist on a spectrum. Most of reality is that way.

For soups: On one end it’s plain water. On the other end it’s a boiled potato or hamburger.

FuglyDuck,
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I mean, yeah, that’s kinda the joke?

Though I personally- and without any real authority- divide the line based on how it behaves on a plate (well, hypothetically,)- if the stock/broth would stay clinging on the topping/filling/whateveritscalled rather than just spilling out and making a hypothetical mess…. It’s a stew

Dick_Justice,
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It’s sure not traditional French, but I just bought supplies for a few blender soups, lol. Carrot, broccoli, and cauliflower.

lietuva,

mushroom soup, Adam Ragusea made a video a while, it was amazing! Very hearthy.

I made Georgian Kharcho few times. Its a beef soup with rice and spices.

Theres one that i have an addiction for. Ita a cold beet soup called Šaltibarščiai its basically buttermilk with cucumbers and beets, but its soo refreshing. And it takes no time to prepare. I eat it during the summer

Frawley,

I love a good chicken wild rice.

undeffeined,

There’s a soup season? I eat soup practically everyday.

Anyway, my favorites are: Caldo Verde and Sopa de Feijão. As I’m sure most people don’t know them heres a short description:

Caldo Verde

Lots and lots of finelly cut dark green cabbage on a smooth purée base of potatoes and onion. Traditional version also takes several slidces of blood sausage (chouriço).

Sopa de Feijão (Bean Soul)

Chopped up cabbage and carrots on a smooth base of beans and onion. Beans are usualy brown or butter beans bought dry, soaked overnight and then cooked.

GissaMittJobb,

Funnel chanterelle soup is my all-time favorite. Funnel chanterelles are pretty easy to forage where I live, so I always have a bunch of them in the freezer. It’s a cream-based soup with blue cheese in it, an absolute blast of a meal.

EnderMB,

I like vegetable soup as a way to use up any veg that’s about to go out of date. Fresh vegetable stock, roasting some veg beforehand, and adding a hint of curry powder helps make a lovely blended soup.

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