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Alright, another off topic food discussion.  What is your favorite soup?  My mother makes a pretty mean chicken and rice which always hits the spot.  In the more mainstream department I like Campbell's Select chowder and cream of potato. 

I like New England Clam Chowder a lot.  Cream of Mushroom is another and Minestrone rounds out my usual trio that I pick from.

Tomato soup is almost mandatory if I am having a toasted ham and cheese sandwich.

Whenever I make a trip to the grocery store, I always make sure to pick up a couple cans of Campbell's Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits.
Next to regular chicken & noodle, it has to be my all-time favorite soup.   :thumbup:

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Tara Sue made a killer Black Bean and ham the other day...she used LOTS of leftovers from a nice picnic ham from a day or so earlier. It also had carrots and celery...  Boy...the next day...it was even BETTER!
(Johnny Bravo imitation-"Ohhhhh-Mama!")  :smile:

 On the other hand...my step mother's mother,Grandma Bonarski,used to make a terrible tasing concotion called Sauerkraut and pig ear soup...which was made from...well sauerkraut and pig ears! YEECH!!!  :buggedout:

I once briefly contemplated suicide but the thought that I would never taste my mom's chicken and sausage gumbo again made me reconsider.  That's one powerful soup!

She also makes a mean crab bisque.

I like a good chicken noodle soup. Campbells also has a spicy sausage/gumbo/rice thingy that I really like.

With the cooler weather coming soup is a good subject. A list of my favorites:

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French Onion

Spit Pea Soup
Tomato Soup
Chicken Noodle
Beef & Barley
Cream & Potato
Cream of Broccoli

Not a soup but I like to include Chili here.

One of my favorite things about cold weather is that it means it's soup time!

A couple of winters ago I was introduced to pumpkin soup.
Made with cooked pumpkin, cream, butter, and spices, including nutmeg and curry. I make several big pots every winter now.

The most disgusting soup I ever saw (it tasted OK, but I couldn't bring myself to eat it because of its looks) was a gazpacho-style recipe made with cream. It looked just like a bowl of chunky Pepto-Bismol.

Ramen noodles has and always will be a favorite. Also, any of the Chunky vegetable beef soups.

Cuginos chicken enchilada soup - you can buy the box at Target and add your own chopped up chicken. You top off your bowl with crushed tortilla chips, chopped green onion and chedder cheese

it's out of this world

When ever I go to the OLIVE GARDEN i order Zuppa Toscana for my soup.

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Yeah, I've had Cuginos too and I second the recommendation.  It's a very good soup, especially on a cold day. 

Burgoo


WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Well it's great stuff and very regional to Western KY and TN.

Here's a small batch recipe if you have left over BBQ otherwise this is made in very large batches and you can freeze what you don't eat. We make it in a outdoor iron kettle about 50-100 gallons at a time. I also make smaller batches of about 25 to 35 gallons.

But here is my Crock Pot version .... about a gallon or so.

INGREDIENTS:

    * 1 or 2 BBQ'd chicken, 3 to 4 pounds boned and chopped.
    * 1 1/2 pounds of BBQ pork or Mutton or both. also chopped or shredded.
    * 3 cups chicken broth, homemade is best but store bought works.
    * 2 cups beef broth. Canned is fine.
    * 2 cups water or beer.
    * 1 1/2 or more teaspoons coarsely ground MIXED pepper corns.
    * 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
    * 1 can (about 29 ounces) tomato puree
    * 12 potatoes, diced.
    * 2 cups chopped onion
    * 1 medium head cabbage, finely chopped
    * 3 cans (14.5 oz each) diced tomatoes (Rotel Brand)
    * 3 cans (12 to 15 oz each) whole kernel corn, drained
    * 1 pound carrots, sliced
    * 1 cup fresh sliced okra
    * 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen butterbeans or lima beans
    * 2 or 3 green peppers, finely chopped ( Red and Yellow are fine too)
    * 2 to 4 teaspoons sea salt, to taste
    * More ground pepper near the end of cooking, pepper flavor cooks out.
    * 1/4 to 1/2 cup Homemade BBQ sauce (Not that nationally sold crap.) Local BBQ house brand is ok to use.

PREPARATION:
Smoke chicken, pork and mutton ... if you don't know how to smoke go buy it. This takes several hours, bring beer.
Left over BBQ is fine if you have it, put everything in crock pot and cook on low all day, refresh the pepper near the end of cooking or check for flavor. I never check anything, I've made about half million gallons of it in my life time.
Serve with cracker and a beer or two and enjoy ... nothing and I mean nothing that comes out of a can is even in this stuff league. It's great.

NOTE: Burgoo has no set recipe, it has a basic concept of a BBQ stew, traditional Burgoo is made with rabbit, squirrel, mutton, beef, chicken, pork, and about any other meat you can get. Any and all veggies, broth, sauce and seasoning. Ask 100 people and get a 100 different ways to make it.

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Tomato soup, done right, is still the best kind of soup around. Great for when you have the sniffels or a cold as well. Crumble up a ton of saltines or oyster crackers in it and get eatin'!

My 2nd favorite is Chicken Noodle Soup.

Basic choices, yes, but timeless and easy to make as well!   :teddyr:

That CheezeFlixz sure gets around. Everything from Skydiving, Reading History, Travels, and even Soup.  :thumbup:

I'd say tastes here are, by and large, pretty similar to my own.

I love a good French onion soup, particularly at a restaurant where I don't have to get the melted cheese off the bowl.

The cream soups for sure (broccoli, mushroom, potato, asparagus, cauliflower, any of those)

Tomato soup for sure. Goes great with grilled cheese on a winter day.

Clam or seafood chowder are another big favourite, although not all chowders are created equal.

Just yesterday, my wife made a curried squash and roasted pepper soup with diced German sausage. Quite satisfying, but I'l have to eat it a few more times to see if it counts as a favourite.

And nothing beats a really good stew, whether beef, chicken, turkey, Irish or whatever. One of the best stews I ever ate was at the Legion hall here. Irish stew is a tradition there on St. Paddy's Day. I almost didn't go, because stew is one of those foods I'm picky about.

You see, when I say I like good stew, I mean GOOD stew. Exceptional stew. My mom fed me a lot of bad stew growing up. I guess it comes down to philosophy. For my mom, stew is a way to use up parts of the roast that otherwise wouldn't get eaten. For me, it's a dish in its own right.

Since I started making my own stew my way (starting with fresh, quality ingredients - no cheap stew meat, leftover scraps or overcooked vegetables) I've discovered to my surprise that I love stew. But I'm still wary of trying unfamiliar stew. There's a lot of bad stew out there.

Along with lots of folks I like Tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches.

I really like the Minestrone and Fagioli soups at The Olive Garden

My number one fave was my Mom's (passed away 14 years ago) homemade country vegetable soup.

It contained

Butterbeans, purple hull peas, okra, tomatoes, potatoes, and onions. Put a piece of cornbread in a bowl and then cover it  with this and that's what you call eating!

Comes from being old .. LOL.

Let me also add a real political analysis and economist.

Now that's quite a stew.  :twirl:

Katie makes a good beef stew.  She uses V8 juice instead of water and the meat is not chunk "whatever left over" for stew.  We usually use steak tips or sirloin.

What she makes that is awesome is chicken and dumplings.  Man, I love me some good chicken and dumplings.

Soon it will be Turkey and Dumpling time ... along with the 400 other turkey and something dishes, we even make Turkey Noodle Soup.

My grandmother makes Turkey Hash every year out of the leftover turkery. It's bascially just turkey and cubed potatoe chunks in a broth.  Talk about good eating!

That was basically all I practically ate growing up. Good stuff!

Hey all.

I'm new to the board, but I didn't see an introduce yourself section, so I thought maybe I'd start out by dropping my two cents in on a conversation and soup is a good one to start.  :smile:

I love the soup Zuppa Toscana from Olive Garden Scott posted as one of my top three. I didn't even know about it until me and some friends a few years back went there and my friend suggested it to me when we were asked what soup we wanted with our meal. I was worried it'd be really spicy when I read about it, but it turns out to be really good. Anyone whom hasn't tried it should.

Also Split Pea Soup is really good. I like the Campbell's Chunky version, but my Dad is able to make an awesome tasting batch of homemade with leftover ham shank from Easter or some holiday, potatoes, carrots, celery, and of course the green split peas.

Third place I'd say is a tie for me between chicken noodle soup and tomato. SOme days you just feel like one over another.

Welcome aboard, MST3KFan!  You have a great taste in avatars.

I don't know what it is, by as the years have gone past I eat less chicken noodle.  I've tried a few different varieties, but I lean more toward stuff like the ones I mentioned earlier.  Now and then, I'll try a chicken noodle again but it never gets back on my regular menu.

We just spent the last three days eating a honey ham we picked up.  Katie is going to make some soup with the remainder.  There is still a good bit of meat on the bone, so it should be good.

When I lived in Germany, there was this place at the end of my street that made an amazing beef goulash. They served it with bread made that day, man that was good eats. I think the thing I miss about Germany  the most was the food.  :teddyr:

Ah, I keep forgetting most of you guys are just coming up to Thanksgiving. We had it here last month.

Chicken noodle soup was one of the ones I didn't much care for, probably because all we got when I was a kid was the basic Campbell's version that was kind of like chickeny dishwater with soggy noodles and tiny bits of "chicken" floating around in it. Put me off it for life.

One of my friends years ago (actually more of a friend of a friend) used to be nuts about chicken noodle soup. That and apple pie. And chicken fingers, come to think of it. I like chicken fingers and apple pie too, but not like this guy. Anytime the bunch of us went out to eat, it didn't matter what kind of fancy or exotic foods, gourmet soups or rich desserts were on the menu, Dave would always get chicken noodle soup, chicken fingers and apple pie if they were available. We'd all sit there looking at him as if to ask "are you five years old?"

My Mom use to make a great goulash. Never asked here where she got the recipe. My parents were in Germany when I was born and I lived their the first year of my life. Maybe she picked it up from there.


Chicken soup has gone way down on my list also, but we do have a store in our region that you might be familiar with Andrew. It's a chain called WAWA and they have a great chicken noodle soup with thick wide noodles. Well......I think it's good, but then again when I go there I usually order their Chili, Split Pea Soup, or Beef and Barley before getting to the Chicken Noodle Soup.

And I love dumplings. Haven't had them in years. Wait a minute I think I had some at Country Buffet once. Love anything with gravy on it.


Welcome to the forum MSTK3Fan. Giving you and the GIANT CLAW a little karma to go with your Zuppa Toscana. It's on the house.