i dont care for soups (or any hot liquids for that matter) but i'll take a bit of Miso soup, or udon if i'm out for Japanese ... .

Having homemade Tomato and Fennel with Creme Fraiche tonight for dinner. Yum! :D

Broccolli and Stilton soup is probably my fav.


Close runners are potato and leek & the hot and sour soup you get in chinese restaurants

I'm gonna have to try potato and leek. I love a good tomato bisque. It doesn't get any simpler or just better. She-crab soup is like that, only with crab.:p

I think I'm with a lot of people here. I just love a good soup.

Hey V, what kind of soups you got in India? I love Indian cuisine, but I've never tried the soups. Hook me up, bro!

Potatoe + Broccoli cheese= <3

None of the stuff you saw in Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, let me assure you.

We ve got all sorts like you have. Tomato, cheese, pea (both green and white), carrot, vegetable, chicken, mutton, lobster, fish, beet, ginger...you name it, we got it.

My fav is the tomato soup, with plenty of chopped fried onions, green peas, butter, some chopped green chillies and seedless dates. Served hot.

Most hated - chicken soup. Just never liked the taste of it.

I used to be a fan of tomato soup, but now it just tastes bitter to me for some reason.

Its all in the prep.

The way they make it at my home...mmmmmmmmm.

I just trust Heinz to do it. :p

No wonder you dont like it. Packet stuff just doesnt cut it for me either.

I get the tomatoes fresh off the market, and they (wife and Mom) make it. Onions chopped finely, alongwith some green chillies. Fried till golden brown in butter (or cooking oil, whichever works), 5-6 seedless dates cut into 2-3 pieces, and about 15-20 green peas added and spread into the mix. Then add your mashed tomatoes, pulp and all. Add some salt to taste. You can even use sugar if you want your soup sweetened.

10-15 minutes tops, and its ready to be served hot. I can almost smell it right now. Oh boy...

Tinned actually, but the point still sits. ;)

Dead on with my favorites, actually. There was this little Thai place that had a DELICIOUS Tom Tum soup with shrimp and mushrooms - Just thinking about it makes me salivate.

Also - My mom makes a wicked tomato and spinach soup that is absolutely delicious... Tomato soup is one of my favorites - tomato bisque as well, especially with grilled cheese. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Not a huge fan of soup, to be honest. Once in awhile I like the Campbell's Chunky kind.

Also don't mind Ramen, but I drain all the "soup" (see: water) out and just eat the noodles with the flavouring mixed in.

I'm more about the hardier soups, I usually prefer a stew really. Beef and barley, vegetable beef, chicken and dumpling or any thing with chunks of potato in it. Also it has everything to do with who's making the soup. Open a can of split pea soup and I'll turn my nose, but I'd go for 2nd's of a good homemade (fresh) soup.

Recipes, boy. I say I want recipes.

Previous page, woman. Previous page. :D

You gave me part of a recipe for one, and it has dates in it (although I might like dates in Indian food). So, what you're trying to tell me is, "Haunted, go to Amazon.com look up a big recipe book of Indian cuisine and buy the mother fucker?"

Nope, thats exactly how you prepare it. Good night. ;)

Oh, that post. I didn't see that. Oops. Stupid me.

I once made a vegetable chowder, really tasty and unfortunately have no clue where the recipe is.

Not a soup, but chowder :)

Since Flayed now has a new least favorite thread due no doubt to the nefarious machinations of the one called Festered, I decided that the time has come to give HDC a rainbow and sunshine enema by bringing back what we all know to be Flayed's favorite thread. There hasn't been a whole lot of soup talk on HDC lately due to its deeply controversial nature but I'll do my best to breach this topic with sensitivity, wit and eroticism.
So, here it is:
I've been making a lot of chili lately, being a broke small press novelist and all, tossing hamburger, tomatoes, beans and sundry peppers into a pot and creating three days of protein rich meals makes a lot of sense. I have noticed that some people consider chili a soup, while for others it's either a stew or kind of its own thing entirely. Is chili soup? What chili tricks do you prefer? Is the sloppy joe, (which bears a striking resemblance to chili in certain ways) soup on a bun or is this too much of a stretch! DISCUSS!

It's like a plastic Halloween pumpkin basket full of rape.

I'm choosing to assume that statement was on topic.

Chilli is not a soup. A liquid tomato base is not enough to qualify chilli as a soup. It's a stew. Anyone who tells you Chilli is a soup is lying and most likley has an anti-stew agenda.

Also, Cheddar & Broccoli soup is good. :cool:

This one's easy. My mother's homemade chili & vegetable soup(s).

I really like taking Bob's Red Mill,vegie soup mix and a can of stewed tomatoes,and heating them up together you add a some water

http://www.bobsredmill.com/images/ca...09a22700cb.jpg

next time I make it I'll try to remember and put up a pic. of what the finished product looks like.

Soup is overrated, I can honesty say there's not a single kind I really like.

Still much the same.
I also do a very nice chicken soup with around 40 ingredients...though it's not something I really want to type up.

Also, since I like this thread and it came to mind:
Snapper soup. Not that much into bisque or many other seafood based soups, I mean they're ok and all, but for me, a well done Snapper soup is fuckin' outta this world.

I made a homemade soup with red beans, black beans, veggies and about 20 herbs and spices.
I have been really digging starting most of my soups lately with some type of bean...you can go in so many directions just starting with a basic bean.

And I am thinking of starting some chicken stock with a entire fresh chicken instead of buying the canned stuff...never did this before so as with all soups or dishes started completely with fresh ingredients-the taste should be outstanding.

I am adding some meat into our diet even though I hate touching dead meat:D

Cream of Chicken is to die for.

When I was in China, there were two rural Southern Chinese soups that I LOVED:

A pork and mushroom soup made of these fantastic and fresh long thin mushrooms... It was thick and yummy.

An egg and tomato soup... It was thick, comforting, and delicious over rice. Which I had learned how to make it while I was there... I really need to pull out my Wok cookbook. Part of the challenge of it is finding all of the Asian herbs and spices. I think I need to take time to go to Chinatown...

Mushrooms: you can pick up some organic shiitake and it will taste just as good, and even some baby bellas will work...:)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - Perhaps I shall. Yuuuuuuuuuum. I want to make more soups. They can be economical and healthy... My mom makes a FABULOUS tomato/basil soup that's garlic-y and veggie and absolutely delicious... I'll have to pester her for the recipe.

Any favorite soups you make for the kiddies, Nova?

All my kids love my veggie soups.
I just throw all there fav veggies /sea salt/ boullion cube and some fresh herbs before school and simmer them at lowest setting all day. Around 4pm the soup smell is out of this world.

Throw everything and I mean EVERYTHING you enjoy in water and by the end of the day, you have perfect soup.:cool:

Here is my own recipe for Bean and Ham soup. I had this posted on my clan forum as a joke, but since this thread is going might as well...

Ingredients
1 16oz bag of dried beans, any kind is fine, but the Goya Ham Beans are best.
1 Large Onion
1 bag of baby carrots(or regular but I prefer baby)
4 sticks of celery
2 tbs chopped garlic
1-2 chicken boullian cubes(depending on taste and how many packages of ham flavor come with beans(sometimes2 sometimes 1))
1 big hamsteak (you can find them for between 1-3 dollars for 1)
1 package of kielbasa
1/2 lb of bacon(Cooked, dried with paper towels to remove access fat, and crushed or cut up into smaller peices(as big as you think is right)
Black Pepper To taste(Optional)
Liquid Smoke(any kind) a few drops.

*NOT NEEDED*
You can also add in any smoked pork product, like a smoked pork butt(I prefer to use this) or anything you will think is good in it.

Preperation

First, rinse the beans thouroughly to get rid of any dust on them, then put them in a pot with 2-3 inches of water ontop of them to boil, add in the ham flavor and boullian, let them boil half an hour and then remove from heat and cover, then let them sit for another half an hour.

Next prepare your meat and veggies, just cut them up into any size you see fit, set them aside to wait for the beans.

Cooking

Simply mix everything together and either cook in the same pot on a low heat covered until the beans and veggies are soft(beans will seem soft sometimes but feel grainy when eaten, they are not ready yet, beans must be soft as if you were eating canned beans.) Or you can cook it in a BIG crock pot for overnight(I suggest this because everything tastes alot better this way IMO)
*NOTE* If you are cooking this in the pot, make sure you start early in the morning otherwise it won't be ready by dinner time

Serving Suggestions

Adding some cheese (any kind you like) into your soupbowl with the soup makes a delicious cheezy sauce with your beans and ham.

I'm bumping this. America needs this after the Tila Tequila Juggalo tragedy.

The who what?

As I said when I discussed this on my Facebook page, anybody who knows what neither of those phrases means is a lucky, lucky individual.