Soup!

[NovemberAutumn]

I am trying to have soup for dinner more regularly! I often make cream of vegetable; French onion; Italian meatball soup etc and tonight am making a fish chowder.

What soups hit the spot in your family? I'd love to know!

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a578215/slow-cooker-sweet-potato-vegetable-soup/

I made this one the other day and it was lovely. I did fry the onion etc first.

I made a good one the other day, lentil, carrot and sweet potato. I sautéed the potato, carrot, onions and garlic with olive oil and garam marsala spices under a baking paper cartouche (got no lid for my frying pan) to soften while the lentils simmered in vegetable stock, then simmered it all up gently for a hour or so and blended. Had it with fresh coriander and naan bread, it was lush.

Leek and potato here! So easy.

Tomato red pepper and chorizo

Love the idea of cooking soup in the slow cooker.

Lentils a huge hit in our family!

All sounds so good. thank you.

Leek and potato here too. Simples!

Leek and potato always wins here-18 minutes in the pressure cooker

Thai noodle and salmon soup is a great meal - fish stock, lemongrass, coriander, pak choi, red pepper, salmon fillets, ginger

Im just roasting a squash with chilli flakes and garlic. Once done stick in liquidiser and serve wth homemade Foccasia bread.

Curried parsnip.

Good old lentil and bacon hits the spot here.

We love a leek and potato, and also the Tesco recipe for ‘Magic Soup’ which is tomato, sweet potato and red pepper with coconut milk - delicious with a few chilli flakes and cheese on toast.

Ottolenghi's Hawaii onion and chickpea soup is really delicious and perfect for this time of year. The recipe calls the cheesy toast optional, but it's mandatory for me!

Chicken noodle soup
Tomato soup with a cheese scone
Green pea and crispy bacon
Baked potato soup
Italian wedding soup (broth with greens and meatballs)
Cullen skink
Corn and bacon chowder

We eat a lot of pho, laksa, and I love ham pea and mint.

Leek and carrot, just a variation on leek and potato with one small potato to thicken it, then a load of carrots, leeks and an onion and veg stock.

This is delicious, the roasted vegetables and caramelized onion and garlic are amazing
https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2015/01/30/roasted-carrot-chickpea-and-garlic-soup-26p-vegan/?amp=1

One not to recommend: I added pearl barley to a fridge-bottom-soup instead of my usual lentils. I like my soups smooth. Liquidised pear barley has the texture of wallpaper paste and I have a vat of this stuff to get through as DH has rejected it (and he has my sympathy. Sigh.

This one, especially with the potato skins

https://www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk/loaded-baked-potato-soup/

Chicken noodle (with matzah balls!)
Chicken gnocchi
Cream of leek and crispy bacon
Roasted tomato and red pepper

I made a nice bean soup the other day.
Onions, celery, garlic, leek deglaze with splash of white wine,tin of white beans, veg stock, Parmesan bit of lemon zest and seasoning. I blended about a 1/4 of it to give a nice thick consistency.
Add some Kale at the end.

Might be better for the adults than kids!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/minestrone_23211

Above recipe is great but timings needed adjusting for me.

And I added origano.

I make several huge batches of soup every month and freeze them in portions. We eat soup for dinner most days when we don't have guests. My usual repertoire:

Pea and ham made with slow cooked gammon
Sweet potato and butternut squash with coconut cream and lots of red chilli
Mulligatawny
Tuscan bean
Chicken and mushroom
Chicken tom yum with noodles
Tarka daal
Potato and leek with shredded chicken
Scotch broth