Comments on: Dietribes: Soup’s On!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:38:00 +0000

Love soup! Although I can’t eat tomato soup without also having a grilled cheese sandwich (cut diagonally, of course).

Also love split pea soup with ham.

Here in NZ, almost every place serves pumpkin soup (blech!).

And as far as I know, there is no ‘debate’ about the origin on man – just people who don’t understand science.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:27:00 +0000

Yummmmm… Split pea with bacon and creamy tomato are my favorites. My kids really like beef stroganoff made with cream of mushroom soup, although I’m more likely to reach for the organic stuff now, rather than Campbell’s, er, at least as long as we can afford it. I got 15 huge butternut squash off of 3 plants this year (thanks to homemade compost) so I definetly have butternut soup in my future! Ha, guess that settles the question of what’s for dinner tonight! :-)

By: Genesis

Genesis — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:40:00 +0000

“since man first came out of the primordial soup himself.”

I think that Mental Floss needs to cover the other side of the debate of the origin of man. Do an article on Answers in Genesis

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Oops that Pasta Fagioli, not Fagoli. And thanks for the potato soup recipe Karen! I’ll be trying that one out since it’s already well into fall weather here.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:59:00 +0000

Jason! Top Secret Recipes is my favorite recipe sight! I live in the UK and can’t get a lot of the food I love from America. The Pasta Fagoli soup from Olive Garden is a big hit when I make it and it reheats like a dream.

I also recently discovered that I like tomato soup. My mom ate it while I was growing up and it never appealed to me until now. I prefer homemade over Campbell’s though.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:48:00 +0000

My favorite soup to start off the fall season is potato. I like this one.

INGREDIENTS
1 lb bacon strips, diced
1 small onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon pepper
3 cups chicken broth
3 large baking potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 cup half-and-half cream
1/2 teaspoon Tobasco sauce
1/2 C sour cream
Shredded Cheddar cheese

DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan, boil peeled and cubed potatoes in chicken broth until very tender. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, cook bacon until crisp. Drain, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings. Crumble backon and set aside. Saute onion and garlic in the drippings until tender. Stir in flour, salt, basil and pepper; mix well. Gradually add the chicken broth you cooked the potatoes in. Bring to boil; boil and stir for 2 minutes. Add the cooked potatoes, the cream, sour cream, bacon and hot pepper sauce; heat through but do not boil. Garnish with bacon some of the bacon and cheese.

I like to put a potato masher in the pot and give it a few good squishes first. You can add more flour if the soup seems thin.

By: Jason!

Jason! — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Top Secret Recipes has offered free knock-off Soup Nazi recipes for a while now.

The mulligatawny is pretty good… I haven’t tried the others.

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipedetail.asp?sessionid=&login=yes&id=93&agree=yes

By: HP

HP — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Honestly, that US Senate bean soup is my favorite! They sell it all over the place here in DC, although I only recently discovered it.

By: qt314159265

qt314159265 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:43:00 +0000

Cowboy beans rule!

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By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:35:00 +0000

i love soup! all kinds of soup.