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?

You’re throwing words like ‘opined’ around and accusing others of snobbery? Also, you mean unreconstructed, not unreconstituted.

No, I meant unreconstituted: "Not converted to a current orthodoxy or lifestyle from one regarded by other people as outdated or extreme"

What's wrong with opined? Would you like me to dumb down my language for you?

You're clutching at straws. You bailed out of a disagreement by throwing personal insults, and you're pissed off that you got one back. Tough.

I’m with OP’s mother here

Who cares. Like seriously

Obviously nine pages of MN posters

Look all of you are ruining this thread.

If your all going to talk about soup then I must insist that you post some lovely recipes for me!

Thankyou to the posters who have understood that important fact and have shared already.

obviously I think soup is a good thing and definitely a meal (as long as there is nice bread or rolls to go with it)

Soup is not a meal.

YANBU soup is definitely a meal. But maybe not canned tomato soup or similar, I’m really talking about homemade soup like yours with beans etc in. Almost all of my soups contain potato’s/beans/lentils along with lots of veg and they are plenty filling enough. Healthy and cheap too. If I’m eating for dinner I eat with homemade bread, if for lunch then no bread, I don’t need it at lunch time.

Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode.....anyone? Lol

Soup is dinner. It is not tea.

I had soup for dinner last night made from the innards of the Halloween pumpkin (plus a carrot, onion and some red pepper) - it was delicious.

penguinsetpamdas And micromanaged. I see it too. In fact I see some kind of Russian face because I clearly see a black fur hat over the gold (quite stern) face. What’s odd (as if a Russian behatted gold faced thing in a bowl of stew isn’t a little odd) is that the argument swirled on around your posts as if nothing remarkable had happened.

Btw that really is a stew not a soup I think !

Starter or lunch in this house

Sorry, I see the thread evolved a little whilst I left to 'eat my soup' last night

I have no qualms about eating soup any time of the day, or cornflakes for dinner, or chocolate at 7am. It was simply my mothers shock that made me wonder if everyone else thought the same, or if it was some kind of marmite 50/50 thing.

If anyone knows how to make one of those consummé super thin broth type soups, that would be great though. I do like those as a starter out when somebody else has made them, but have never attempted myself as have visions of lots of sieving or muslins involved.

A good hearty soup can be more filling than most meals. All Hail soup!

I think it's fine for dinner. Sometimes I have it for lunch and dinner.

Soup is definitely a proper meal! I can’t remember the name of the show but it was presented by Dr Michael Mosley and he did an experiment where two different groups were served the exact same meal; chicken, veg, potatoes and a glass of water. One group ate it plated just as above, the other had it turned into a soup.
They then monitored how quickly their stomachs emptied over a period of time doing active stuff, and the soup people stayed fuller for longer. FACT.

Love soup!

Fascinating - soup can certainly contain as much stuff as a meal. Big hearty soup followed by a main course is surely too many calories for one meal. This soups, consumme or one with just light vegetables would perhaps be more appropriate as a lunch or a starter. So we are all right really.

Yes it absolutely is a meal. I seem to recall a documentary a while ago, think it was about weight loss but anyway, it was scientifically proven that soup was actually more physically filling than solid food.

Just seen a pp said the same, that was the programme I was referring to.

I'm with you OP. In the autumn/winter months, nothing like a hearty soup.

YANBU soups can totally be a meal at whatever time of day.

I love soup. I often eat it as a meal. I’m not wedded to strict ‘meal/type of food’ correlations. I can/do happily eat leftovers for breakfast or have just a plate of sliced tomatoes for dinner and often have porridge for lunch and so on.

BUT for some irrational reason soup at night doesn’t seem right for me either on its own or even as part of a more diverse meal. This is wholly irrational but quite ingrained in me I think. It’s to do with the liquid element for some bizarre reason.

@Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom

Here is my cheat Crab and Sweetcorn soup. It is the dish I go to when I really can't be arsed to cook but want something nice to eat after a tough day. I do things by eye so don't have weights I can impart but its not hard to guess.

Frozen sweetcorn cooked in stock. Blitz to a liquid, put back in the saucepan (if you don't have a stick blender) then add some more frozen sweetcorn for texture and then cook for about 5 minutes. If you like spicy food, now is the time to add chilli or chipotle sauce.

Finally open a tin of jumbo crab meat, add and heat through. Then you are ready to serve. If you need something really filling, add butter beans to it. Sounds odd but works.

Soup is a nice meal but it's a lunch to me.

A thick broth with bread and dumplings is a good tea.

I'm intrigued as to why everyone Greeks obliged to specify that they like crusty bread- are there really people who would otherwise assume a proliferation of flaccid baked goods being flopped into bowls of soup or is it borne of a desire to recreate Nigella's pseudo-sexy food descriptions?

DoJo I’d assume most people only have a regular non-crusty sandwich loaf in for a normal week. I’d buy crusty bread specially for soup/casseroles. I don’t think it’s poncy in this case to add the descriptor.