Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Soup by any Other Name

Last night, several friends who were intrigued by my soup quest forwarded their favorite recipes...special thanks to Kim K!  And, I opened my January 2013 issue of Real Simple this morning, and found two pages of soup recipes.   I feel armed and ready...for at least the month of January!

But all these recipes got me thinking about what can be called soup, or not.  Soup is defined as  "a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients."  So I guess I can expand my soup recipe search to include broth, consomme, bisque, stew, chowder, chili and the list goes on.  While this seems to limit our meal times for soup to lunch, snack and dinner...I am looking for a "breakfast" soup...any suggestions?!?

For tonight, I made a Moroccan chicken with chickpea soup.  Will report back tomorrow on how it goes over with the family.  

Soup Mom

3 comments:

  1. look forward to hearing the score on the Moroccan chicken with chickpea soup! You should set up a 1 to 5 or 1 - 10 scale and let the family vote and rate each of these recipes for us... then post any of the recipes that score 70% or above... just a thought :)

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  2. for breakfast - how about an egg drop soup... maybe add a wee bit of bacon bits too... this recipe looked good http://allrecipes.com/recipe/restaurant-style-egg-drop-soup/

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  3. Hi! So, in my "once a week cook a new soup/stew" quest, I began with a Chicken Verde with Hominy Stew. It is a light version of Posole. It was great but prep time was too long for a weeknight unless you are making it for the next day (which I was).

    I had some for lunch and it was fabulous.

    I've been planning on doing this for the last few years but never got around to it so thanks for the motivation!

    Kim K.

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