‘Season of mists and mellow soupfulness…’

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I love fishy chowders, smoked haddock is so simple to make, though I know that not everybody likes their soup lumpy.

Try making Cullen Skink sometime - it's delicious!

MissAdventure

My soup attempts have been ok ish, but not worth all the effort.

Same here😁
We love all the M&S soups, which are cheaper than Baxters and much nicer.Their chicken and veg soup is gorgeous.

Sainsbury lentil dahl is really, really good.
I'm sure I could make something creative with it if it wasn't for my CBA syndrome.

The lidl lentil and tomato is good too.

I like to crumble up little bits of cheese into soup.

Oh, I say!
One of those fancy cooks, eh?

Yeah right😂

In this weather I am making Gazpacho. It is gorgeous with mint.

Still cool enough for soup here in Northumberland. I have a load of mushrooms waiting to be made into soup.
Tomorrow is the day.

We love our soup, usually have a boll with some bread for lunch. My specialty is "fridge soup" : whatever I find goes in the soup 😅

I love making and eating soup but Dh isn’t keen. He isn’t a fussy eater but always comments ‘not soup again’. Haven’t made any through the summer but will start up again soon.

Gingster

I love making and eating soup but Dh isn’t keen. He isn’t a fussy eater but always comments ‘not soup again’. Haven’t made any through the summer but will start up again soon.

Mine is the opposite - he's already badgering me to make a pot of soup!

I make lots of different soups often with vegetables from the freezer and stock made in the Instapot. So quick and easy. Frozen broccoli and stilton, pea and mint, curried cauliflower and tomato basil soups made in a few minutes are winter staples for lunch

Thank you, Norah

I open a tin of Heinz tomato soup 😁
Much nicer than any of the soups I’ve attempted to make 🤦‍♀️

Shinamae

I open a tin of Heinz tomato soup 😁
Much nicer than any of the soups I’ve attempted to make 🤦‍♀️

I make lovely soups, but I agree that Heinz Tomato soup is better than any tomato soup I’ve made, except for gazpacho.

TBH I rarely use recipes. Tonight I’ll be using up the stock made with a chicken carcass the other day. Some sweated onions first, add stock, stock cubes and red lentils, then diced carrots, potatoes, celery, swede.

A few minutes before serving, add fresh veg (cauliflower and broccoli) and the last bits of chicken picked off the carcass before boiling it up.

If I had any suet I might add some dumplings, but it’s probably still a bit too summery for those anyway.

Shinamae

I open a tin of Heinz tomato soup 😁
Much nicer than any of the soups I’ve attempted to make 🤦‍♀️

I do make soups through the year but Heinz Tomato is my go-to when I’m feeling off colour. I like to stir some curry paste through it too.
Home-made chicken noodle is a good pick-me-up. I remember being very grateful to find it on the menu at a ‘Denny’s’ after along distance flight. A bowl of that really helped deal with the jet lag!

Heinz tomato soup is about the only tinned soup I dislike.

I make tomato soup often. Lovely, warming, nice lunch.

1/2 onion, peeled, chopped, saute.
1 clove garlic, peel, grate, saute with onion last 2-3 minutes.
1 carrot, scrubbed, chopped
3-4" rosemary sprig, salt, pepper, fenugreek
1 cup water, cook all above until carrot is soft.
1 tin coconut milk
1 tin tomatoes, cook another 5-10 minutes.
Jug blender until smooth.
Serve topped with croutons or snipped rosemary.

Shinamae

I open a tin of Heinz tomato soup 😁
Much nicer than any of the soups I’ve attempted to make 🤦‍♀️

Funnily enough, the last time I was feeling unwell, I took a notion for Heinz tomato soup - ewww, no never again! It was horrible - really nasty metallic aftertaste. I'll be sticking to homemade from now on.

Ooh I love Heinz tomato soup.
I do have to keep rennies at hand though.

Its boiling here today.
Not soup weather.

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I love fishy chowders, smoked haddock is so simple to make, though I know that not everybody likes their soup lumpy.

We love them too! I do one with smoked haddock, onion, a little bacon (pref. crisped up streaky) potato, the milk the haddock was poached in plus however much more, and preferably plenty of parsley. Sometimes a small tin of sweetcorn.
And a fish or chicken stock cube.

I'm making Mexican Tortilla Chipotle Soup for 7pm meal.

Tomatoes (we've too many tomatoes), onion, garlic, chipotle, oregano, cumin, black beans, sweet corn, vegetable broth, water, salt, pepper.

Crushed tortilla chips and chopped fresh coriander - to serve.

Witzend

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I love fishy chowders, smoked haddock is so simple to make, though I know that not everybody likes their soup lumpy.

We love them too! I do one with smoked haddock, onion, a little bacon (pref. crisped up streaky) potato, the milk the haddock was poached in plus however much more, and preferably plenty of parsley. Sometimes a small tin of sweetcorn.
And a fish or chicken stock cube.

Oh yes, the sweetcorn is essential! Some people add carrot but I'm not so keen.
I try to use chicken stock from a roast chicken carcase or sometimes I poach a chicken in the pressure cooker then reduce the stock. I love that jellyish quality you get from good stock, if it tastes and smells good you don't need to add much of anything and it needs less salt.
Sometimes I thicken the stock with potato flour rather than adding potato to the soup, it gives a smooth velvety texture.
This is all making me very hungry....

I did once make tomato and roasted red pepper soup - 8 litres of it! - for the Gdcs’ school 🎄fair. I used a recipe that turned out well - tinned toms and jars of red peppers, and it had to be vegan so the ‘milk’ was oat.

Transporting it all 60 miles was the problem - I scrounged some 4 or 6 pint plastic milk bottles from neighbours (ours comes in glass from the milkman) - very well washed first, of course.