To think that Soup is a meal?

[StrawberryTraveller]

As in a decent, homemade Minestone soup we are planning to eat tonight

I was merrily chopping ingredients for dinner tonight, when my mother facetime called us.

Mother: oh sorry, didn't mean to disturb you
Me: thats fine, im only chopping ingredients for dinner tonight
Mother: ooh what are you having?
Me: Minestone soup
Mother: what? soup? for dinner?
Me: erm yep, why not? we like Minestone soup
Mother: (still gobsmacked) what, all of you?

And so on and so on for about 5 minutes. Its a Jamie Oliver recipe, with lots of vegetables in, bacon, harricot beans, and pasta. Hearty, and filling after a day of diy and walking.

If I had called it Minestrone casserole, containing the same ingredients, im sure she would have declared in a marvellous idea. Its just because it contained the word 'soup'

So, is 'soup' dinner for you also?

We have soup roughly once a week in the autumn/winter months.

Mexican three bean tonight with toasted pitta.

I couldn’t eat soup for dinner. I’d feel hard done by when I was little and we were very poor we ate a lot of soup and tinned potatoes!

This is like 克勒多 - that is not for Heron and it wasn't you we suspected of being a spy Sciencels or Woolly killing people in high speed rail crashes with soup not Heron

Not for me. I associate soup with being ill and when I was little my Mum always gave me chicken soup when I wasn't well.

Hi Soup-er people! Thought this might be the place to ask this, but what can i do soup wise with a butternut squash and some leeks? Need using up and all I can think of is soup, glorious soup and tiger loaf and salted butter... ❤

Roast the butternut squash in its skin - with a couple of roast onions maybe - and scrape the flesh out of the skin when it’s cooked. Blend together with some stock for autumn soup or add Thai red paste and coconut milk for a spiced soup. Leeks could also go in or do a leek and potato one as well.

Noted and auctioned.

Has mulligatawny been mentioned yet? We mustn’t miss the signal.

Actioned not auctioned. My cypher machine is playing up.

Sounds lovely I'm going to try this!

Soup is a meal here with crusty bread. It has to be quite thick though. I like the Jamie Oliver leek & potato soup but I pulse it until very thick. Dh makes a good broccoli & Stilton.

Adding this to my list to make, also on the list is the Jamie Oliver English onion soup.

Hope you managed to raise a lot with the auction Heron 😉

I watching out for the bloody Mary soup

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/soups/bloody-mary-soup-with-vodka-tomato-salsa

Though I think men maybe at risk from the butternut squash and leek soup here if you look at the picture. www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/waist-watchers/leek-and-butternut-squash-soup

Oh good lord ! But surely they wouldn’t be so brazen? They look golden also. There may be colour code at play - orange pepper as an ingredient may be key to plans. The golden face . . . The golden squash . . . God they’re clever.

It's a good job we are not on the case then. I don't reckon its some people with fake tans behind this with the love of all things gold and orange.

Thank you- will have a go x

I feel this thread is MN at its best! Gloves are off.

Plus a few recipes thrown in...

And a Russian spy conspriracy

Although the photo of the stew (good looking stew) posted some time ago now had a visible Russian hatted / golden faced figure I remain convinced we are in a non Russian scenario here. It also appears only 3 or 4 of us see the face which means we are somehow involved.

This and soup !

Love home made soup, can't stand soup from a can

Why not izzledrizz? I make homemade soup but I also enhance readymade fresh soups and - horror - canned soup with my own ingredients.

It's stunted not to consider doing that.

ks

. I would eat this but would probably need a dessert and starter