Soup Weather
 

Jim & Jinx sent me 4 soup mixes for christmas. Holiday, harvest, hearty and cream of tater. The holiday is great, tomorrow I'll try the harvest.
The ingredients for mix are here. I also fixed the sweet tater dish, posted by zippy here.
I know it's colder in lots of places, but this ain't the midwest. If it stays this cold for a few days, may not have city water. Lines are not buried deep enough.

My wife's other job is as a cook at a coffeehouse/vegetarian restaurant. She brought home some delicious tomato bisque that I'll eat tomorrow. Temps are supposed to fall here tomorrow...below zero tomorrow night.

Damn, buster! It ain't supposed to be that cold where you are. :eek: Where's Al Gore when you need him?

I made some awesome veg soup day before yesterday. Bet I'll never manage to replicate it. just about to have the last of it for lunch today.... the pitiful amount beest left me.... ;)

Don't you hate that? I'm not much of a cook, but there are a few things I can make quite well. One is bean soup with ham hocks.

I follow a basic recipe, but somehow it always turns out different than the last time. Maybe I shouldn't drink when I cook.

:D

Ditto the soup made with no real recipe. I'm eating some yummy homemade veggie soup for lunch rfn! :D

The bisque was delicious...I put a little Crystal hot sauce in and threw some tortilla strips on top. Unfortunately, we had no croutons.

Currently a chicken/mushroom/potato/onion is in the final stages. I'll let you know how it was...smells OK right now, but it's amazing how I can ruin stuff in the final moments without even trying....

...noms :D

wernt those yams Tastey Buster ??!!

Anyone ever hear of 'gruel'? Growing up my great granny called it the poor man's soup. It was made with corn meal, lots of butter, salt and pepper, and if we were lucky would have some type of chicken or other meat in it.

Gruel was what the thin porridge/broth was called in 18th/19th century England. Made famous by Oliver Twist it was a staple of the workhouse diet. It had a few other names, that i can't recall now, that were more commonly used in workhouse dietaries.

Oh, but nowadays they call it "polenta" and it's a fancy delicacy.

absolutely right - growing up in a first generation Italian family Grandmother called it "mush" and we ate it regularly -
breakfast? put maple syrup on it
dinner? tomato sauce

You bet. Thanks for the post, zip