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What Are Your Favorite Soups ?
It's soup season again. It was only 62° this morning when I plugged in the coffee and the weatherman says it may get down into the 50s by the end of the week. The supermarkets are full of plastic Halloween crap. It's time to start making soups. As I have lamented here before, I am a child of the 50s, when soup came in cans and the consumer culture still seemed innocent. Well, my Mom had two kinds of soups actually, one kind came in a can and the other came in a box. Soup in a box was called a soup mix, mix having become a noun, and the box contained a packet of flavoring powder, which I suspect was mostly salt. My favorites were the Split Pea, which came in a box, and the Tomato Soup in the red and white can. I tried a can of this crap again a couple of years ago, just to see, and I don't understand how I ever could have liked it. It was a pale orange-ish color and sickly sweet with High Fructose Corn Syrup, an ingredient which I never put in my soups these days.
Tomato Soup
I'll share my two favorite soup recipes. I'll make each of them a dozen times between now and spring. The first one is Tomato Soup. This is really a common-sense recipe and it's very versatile. You can go a buncha' different ways with it. The ingredients are stock, I use beef, and tomato purée. You can simulate tomato purée by mixing water with tomato paste, which is what I do. I mix one of those little cans of paste (Ingredients: tomatoes) with water to make a cup and a half or so, add 2 cups of stock and that's a soup. Here's the procedure:
Heat some oil in the bottom of a pot. Sweat finely diced onion and garlic. Stir in purée and stock. Simmer a while
I always put in a bay leaf. If I want it to taste Mexican I'll put in some Mexican oregano and some
chile molido, maybe some hot sauce. For Italian it's Mediterranean oregano and basil with some dried pepper flakes added to the onion. You can serve this
a la Classique with a grilled cheese sandwich or with a
quesadilla. You can add rice or some small pasta. My Grandmother used broken-up spaghetti and garnished it with little chunks of yellow cheese.. Mexican cooks use vermecelli for a
sopa de fideos caldosa. I'm making a batch tonight using little cheese-stuffed tortellini.
Pokey-Leeky
My other favorite soup is Pokey-Leeky, which is what I call Leek and Potato Soup. (I love it so much I have given it a pet name.) This is a classic recipe, it's in every cook book. I wrote about it here summer before last when I did Cold Soups. The ingredients are simple: 50-50 potatoes and leeks by weight, butter or oil, water or stock. Most recipes add some onion. Chop up your leeks potatoes and onions and sweat them down a bit in butter and/or oil. Add water and/or stock to cover, cook 'til tender. You can serve it just like that, chunky country-style, or hit it with the immersion blender and make it smooth. My recipe calls for 2 leeks, 2 potatoes and a half an onion. I use chicken stock. I always add 4 or 5 cloves of garlic. Jacques Pépin makes a garlic soup by omitting the onion and one of the leeks and adding 15 cloves of garlic. Sometimes I'll make it Mexican by adding 2 or 3 poblano chiles, peeled, seeded and chopped. I got that from Spedwybabs, does anybody remember Soupin' it up with Sped ? She always finished by adding half-and-half, but you could finish with milk or cream as well. Any way you do it, Pokey-Leeky is a delicious soup.
Alright then, that's what I got for today, my two best soups. What's new in CUAlandia ? Is anyone planning a Meet-Up, does anyone have a cool link to share and ...
What Are Your Favorite Soups ?
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