Favourite homemade soup

[Lemondrizzle4A]

What are your favourite homemade soups.
I have just batch cooked:
curry parsnip soup
roasted butternut squash soup
celeriac and apple soup.
my favourite of those is curry parsnip soup.

Best soup I had was in a pub, sweetcorn and smoked cheese chowder with chorizo on top. Unbelievable. I think It had cod in it as well

Leek and potato with butterbeans
Celery and almond soup is amazing

My best ever soup was in a pub too. Ethically totally unreasonable, but oh my god, I remember it 20 years later.

A thick, perfectly seasoned potato soup, with a slab of fois gras melting silkily into it.

It still remains the finest thing I have ever eaten.

Leek and potato. Cheap and filling and super tasty!

I don’t know what it’s called but does anyone have a recipe for that delicious thin hot Thai soup, kind of like a milky white coconut broth that has bits of chicken, button mushrooms, strips of veg?

I made this for my food tech gcse. The teacher was over the moon

I make a very simple tomato soup, I saute onions in a lot of olive oil for 10 minutes and add tinned tomatoes and a tin of water, tps salt, tbs sugar. It is the only soup my children eat. You can also add a handful of lentils which go unnoticed once blended.

my favourite is leek and potatoe soup.

Ooooh, this is my favourite!

My mum‘s chicken soup. And it takes me ages. It’s a real labour of love as I need to spend at least 24 hours making a really nice stock from several kilograms of chicken bones from the butcher, and even when I make this soup, with loads of leeks carrots and potato and then the chicken meat, it’s always best if it’s just left for several hours and then eaten once the flavour is really developed.

We like

lentil and bacon
broccoli and cheddar
tomato and lentil
minestrone

Courgette and Philadelphia
butternut squash
celeriac
home made chicken stock soup

Chicken chowder topped with crispy streaky bacon and made with leftovers from a roast
leek and potato is my batch cook standard

some of these recipes sound lush - need to up my soup game!

Sounds yummy.

I make a sweetcorn chowder but with pancetta. Yours sounds good must try it.

Loving this thread. Homemade soups are such a great thing and can be a meal in themselves. I grew up in a large family, money was tight and you learnt how to make cheap meals and how to make them go further. Sadly domestic science as was has gone out the window and we have generations who can’t or won’t cook and spend their money on convenience foods.

I need to up mine as well. I like to batch cook but my very large freezer is bursting at the seams and although all good intentions to use what is in there I still keep filling it with homemade soups etc and there are only two of us.

I want some soup now and I've not even had breakfast! And this has reminded me I ha e a soup making machine that I've not used since I moved house 7yrs ago.

Guess what I'm doing today?!

To be fair, we didn't learn to make soup in Domestic Science at my school. We had a compulsory year of Needlework (awful) and then a compulsory year of Domestic Science, which meant cooking eked out with a few theory lessons about nutrition and also (genuinely) the care and maintenance of dishcloths.

In the practicals, we learned to make shortcrust pastry, which was very useful as my mother never made it and I've made it several times a year ever since. We also made a casserole of some sort, goodness know how given the time constraints. I think we had to get it into the oven by the end of the lesson and come back to collect it at some later point. I'm not sure it was in the fridge at all before getting it home in the late afternoon. I suspect this would not happen now, but we were fine. Probably also a cake (Victoria sandwich?). Scones made with lard, which were not good. My mother made lovely scones (not with lard) so that was a wasted lesson for me, except to save me from ever making them with lard again, I suppose. Possibly fruit salad as an early lesson. No soup, though.

Any time there's a thread asking if it's OK to have soup as an evening meal there are always a lot of people saying they never eat soup, hate soup, and stating as incontrovertible fact that soup is not filling enough to be an evening meal. So silly, given that soup comes in many forms and most people would have bread or a sandwich or a scone with it if there isn't any carbohydrate in the soup and it was intended to be a main meal.

This sounds delicious! Could you share the recipe?

Roasted tomato and red pepper
broccoli cheese
broccoli and cauliflower
cauliflower cheese
leek, bacon and potato
mushroom

Courgette and coriander with a swirl of crem fraiche. I make it in the summer and eat it chilled.

I also do a pea and ham 'soup', I use my slow cooker. Soak 2 packets of dried marrowfat peas over night. Rinse off.

Pot a piece of ham in the slow cooker, my mum always used a ham shank but they are not that common wear I live so gammon joint has to do.

Once the ham is in the sc add the peas and boiling water to the max fill of the sc.

The longer it is cooked the better it is, I have been known to do this for 24 hours.

After about six hours the fat / skin is starting to come away from the ham so I take it out, throw the fat and slice the meat and that goes back in the slow cooker.

It is over 50 years since I did domestic science but I clearly remember making lemon curd and another time Eccles cakes. Only problem was every week my family wanted me to make them as they loved them so much.
I also remember having to do needlework- making an apron for DS. I must have been really arsey as when it came to options DS went with needlework and I point blank refused to do it and ended up spending those lessons with the Year above doing extra DS which I loved.

You can also do the same with broccoli, you need to make it quite concentrated . Ie lots of broccoli not much water .

I’ve remembered a few more that I used to make
Thai curry soup, onion, Thai curry paste with carrots, butternut squash or sweet potato, and coconut milk. Sometimes all 3 vegetables or one or two depending on what’s in the fridge or freezer.
Prawn and cherry Tomato soup, with loads of garlic onions as well, with hunks of bread.

Thai chicken green curry soup with noodles.

Youngest Only eats augolemni (the Greek soup) hence why I tend to just make that now!

I have soup most days at lunchtime, often lentils with whatever veg is in the fridge.
We recently enjoyed leek, butterbean and crispy chorizo soup, a bit bland for some maybe but with the chorizo it's lovely. The recipe was on the Good Food website.