Soup Tribute Thread - nectar of the gods

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Uk Amazon was showing £0.01 for the paperback version. Paperback cookbooks are generally rubbish, though, because they dont stay open at the page without been clamped down

 

Totally agree, only buy hardback when it comes to cook books. my dear mother bought me this one years ago, a very good cook book which gives the various timings for different kinds of roasts with variable taste...like medium well done etc. Packed with simple meals, soups, main meals, pastries, etc etc etc. You can also get it for 1p.....  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dairy-Book-Home-Cookery-Nineties/dp/1860194850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416838078&sr=8-1&keywords=The+dairy+cookbook

[PestiRed]

The cabbage, bacon and lentil soup turned out to be great. Will last a few days. First time I've used goose fat in a soup rather than my usual mangalica - adds a very comforting taste to the lentils.

 

Also knocked together a mushroom soup with leek and thyme to keep the veggie missus happy.

[setreal]

I can thoroughly recommend this book. I have probably used more recipes in it than any of the other cookbooks on my shelf

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soup-Nick-Sandler/dp/1856263991

 

Don't need no recipe for my coveted "Rice-and-basically-everything-else-that-is-in-the-kitchen" soup

[Rotpeter]

Don't need no recipe for my coveted "Rice-and-basically-everything-else-that-is-in-the-kitchen" soup

Sounds like my Jumble-laya recipe.

[TheHowieLama]

Anybody else like a fishy soup? I love a cullen Skink & I used to go into a tapas place that made a seafood soup which if they'd charged £20 a bowl I would've happily paid it. Looked a bit like this...

 

 

 

I do a seafood brodetto about once a week. Marv.

[dickie mint]

Soup is boss.

[PestiRed]

I made a fine Cullen Skink last week with cheese scones. Fuck me, smoked haddock is expensive though

I had an amazing mulligatawny soup with prawns once but have never been able to make a really good home-made version. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but the coconut/fish balance is never right

[Trumo]

Anybody else like a fishy soup? I love a cullen Skink & I used to go into a tapas place that made a seafood soup which if they'd charged £20 a bowl I would've happily paid it. 

 

 

Quality fish soup is fantastic. With a bouillabaisse, or Thai/Vietnamese style with chillis, lemongrass etc for example.

 

I made a fine Cullen Skink last week with cheese scones. Fuck me, smoked haddock is expensive though

 

I had Cullen Skink once having seen it on a Rick Stein show, and I thought it was far too fishy. Perhaps the quality of the smoked haddock wasn't that great (it looked dyed too). I'm not keen on chowder-type soups though.

[rubble-rouser]

Proper french fish soup with  gruyere and croutons is star stuff. 

[Trumo]

I had an amazing mulligatawny soup with prawns once but have never been able to make a really good home-made version. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but the coconut/fish balance is never right

 

Is it too coconutty? The flavour of coconut milk can dominate so you need to start with a base spicier than you'd think is right, and then calm it down with the coconut milk. That is basically how they balance it out in the Far East.

[PestiRed]

Is it too coconutty? The flavour of coconut milk can dominate so you need to start with a base spicier than you'd think is right, and then calm it down with the coconut milk. That is basically how they balance it out in the Far East.

Tends to be too fishy when I make it. I sometimes have that problem with other fish soups as well. There's a local paprika-based pike-perch soup that is delicious in every restaurant in Hungary but completely shit in my house - even when I get the recipe straight from one of the local chefs.

 

For some reason I can make a decent bouillabaisse but struggle with anything that has a more delicate fish taste

[RJ Fan club]

Lobster Bisque from the Harbour in Reyjavik, or clam chowder in a sour dough bun in New England. Mmmmmmmmm fish soup

[Trumo]

Jewish-style chicken soup with matzahball dumplings. I had it in a restaurant once and it was very tasty but they didn't actually put any of the chicken in the soup. Is that normal?

[Mathewbet1]

Soup is ace, i tend to get these fresh soups from the supermarket tesco surprisingly do a nice chicken morocco style one with lentils and loads of veg in nice .

[Dr Nowt]

Tesco do a Red Thai one with rice in, it's the shizzle ma nizzle on the tizzle.

 

I literally don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

[KopOut]

Kumera and Celery Soup.

 

It's dead easy. Saute the chopped celery including leaves in BUTTER. While they are busy on heat, add chopped Kumera, for a wee while more.

 

Add your favourite vege stock - dissolved in 2 cups of water - add black pepper and a small amount of Tamari Sauce...about a tablespoon.

 

When soft and whizzable, do just that - with one of those mignolets.

 

Return to minor heat, adding FRESH CREAM to taste, for roughly 5-10 minutes.

 

Yum.

 

[PestiRed]

Tonight I'll put together one of my favourites, carrot and coriander. Quick, cheap, delicious and impossible to fuck up. That should get us through the weekend.

 

 

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7003/carrot-and-coriander-soup

[Jose Jones]

European style soups tend to only get made in our house but I am a big fan of Asian soups. Japanese ramen and Thai soups particularly.

[General Dryness]

Kumera and Celery Soup. It's dead easy. Saute the chopped celery including leaves in BUTTER. While they are busy on heat, add chopped Kumera, for a wee while more.Add your favourite vege stock - dissolved in 2 cups of water - add black pepper and a small amount of Tamari Sauce...about a tablespoon.When soft and whizzable, do just that - with one of those mignolets.Return to minor heat, adding FRESH CREAM to taste, for roughly 5-10 minutes.Yum.

Not sure if kumara is widely available in the northern hemisphere, so you might be falling on deaf ears here mate. I might give it a go though.

[Champ]

Not sure if kumara is widely available in the northern hemisphere, so you might be falling on deaf ears here mate. I might give it a go though.

So the least you could have done would have been to describe it to us heathens, no?

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I'm going to attempt a sweet potato and spicy turkey sausage soup over the weekend.

[General Dryness]

So the least you could have done would have been to describe it to us heathens, no?

If you can't get it, what's the point.

 

Its a root veg bit like potato, but more starchy. Have you still not learnt how to Google things?

 

Edit : apparently its sweet potato. You live and learn, I thought it was something different. As you were.

[Champ]

If you can't get it, what's the point.

 

Its a root veg bit like potato, but more starchy. Have you still not learnt how to Google things?

 

Edit : apparently its sweet potato. You live and learn, I thought it was something different. As you were.

Of course I can google but that doesn't give the all important personal response.

[General Dryness]

Of course I can google but that doesn't give the all important personal response.

 

I do like to offer a personal service.

[mattyq]

Why the fuck do you Kiwis call it a stupid name like Kumara

What's wrong with Sweet Potato?

Weird