My blogging friends keep posting about soup. I wrote this on Saturday, but they beat me to the actual posting process.
Cooking the Christmas dinner this year, alone, without a mom or grandma or mother-in-law to help, reminded me that I do not have the female trait of multitasking. Planning and preparing a multi-dish meal makes me unhappy. Two or three of the dishes always fail to meet my hopes. I like to focus on one dish, then cut up some fruit, add a salad and wa-la--dinner. Of course, this one dish method doesn't work well for holiday meals.
My favorite part, from a cooking perspective, of holiday meals is the soup. I love making soup--from scratch. I love taking the ham bone or turkey bone and boiling in the flavor to make a stock. I love experimenting with different bouquet garni. I love that I have learned what a bouquet garni is. I love the dirty pages of my trusty Joy of Cooking where I've learned the difference between a stock and a broth. Mostly though I love serving and eating the soup and knowing about every ingredient. I cooked the turkey, made the stock, sliced the veggies, dried the herbs, and added the salt and pepper. I've never made the noodles yet. And I've never grown all the vegetables. But still, I love the soup process. The tasting and adding and adjusting. And while I can't brag about my cooking with any accuracy, my turkey noodle soup is the ultimate comfort food.
So, what's your favorite soup recipe. I understand that with soups, recipes are a guideline and you can change things around. But what kind do you like to make?
4 comments:
Funny that we're both thinking about those good ole soup recipes. Glad we finally got together tonight and thanks for the recipes.
This reminds me I need to borrow some of those fresh herbs you grew in your garden and dried last year. :)
Amanda! You cannot borrow any herbs. Well you could but why borrow them? Then you have to give them back. Eeww.
I agree that soup is fun to make and I usually find it hard to make a really flavorful soup! Mine are usually rather bland! However, the turkey soup we made at Thanksgiving was great! And the ground beef/barley/veggie soup I made this week was also very good - due to the fact that I am not afraid to experiment with the spices and improvise the ingredients! Keep up the good cooking!
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