SOUP IS GOOD FOOD!

Do you guys love soup?

I love soup. I’m not just saying that so you’ll like me, or because I love the movie “Best In Show”, either.

 I really love soup.

Soup is what I want to eat after I run, no matter how sweaty I am. I want soup.

I used to really like Baxter’s Winter Squash and Carrot soup, but when they “new and Improved” the recipe, I found it to be thin and tasting not unlike old vase water. They don’t even sell the new version any more. Silly Baxter’s!  So now I’m into Campbell’s V8 Broccoli soup.

I also really like Campbell’s Chunky Beef soup – you know, the soup that eats like a meal. And I eat the whole can - none of this one can makes 2 servings crap. My mom…. She’s so funny… she says to me “You don’t have to eat the whole can, sweetie”. Ha ha ha, mom. Yes. Yes I DO have to eat the whole can.  Seniors are so hilarious with the things they believe.

My Dad used to love Royal Cauliflower soup – Royal because it was from someone who used to cook for The Queen. (I don’t know where is appeared originally, but it is not my recipe. If I find out I’ll let you know).  It was mostly cream with a little cauliflower thrown in for manners. Here is the recipe:

Royal Cauliflower and Coriander Soup

4 T Butter

1 medium cauliflower

1 medium potato, cut up

1 medium onion, cut up

2 C chicken broth

2 C milk (probably full-fat milk)

1 t ground coriander

salt and pepper

cream

parsley

Melt butter in a large pot. Sweat vegetables in butter, covered, until soft – about 5 minutes. Add all other ingredients except for the milk and cook until very soft. Transfer mixture to blender and add milk. Puree. Add a swirl of cream and sprinkle with parsley. Serve hot or cold.

My Mom makes a Weight Watcher’s soup that you can eat by the vat full for no “points”. Still, she eats maybe 1 cup full at a time. I laugh at her small soup capacity. I’m my father’s girl.

I’ve tried all kinds of brands in my search for the perfect soup. Imagine’s Organic Butternut Squash soup is so awful that I poured it down the sink without taking a second spoonful. 

While living in London, I became addicted to New Covent Garden’s Carrot and Coriander soup. I bought their cookbook when I moved back to Canada, but it didn’t turn out the same. 

Tomato soup MUST have crackers. Campbell’s is fine, but I’m always in the market for a new tomato soup. Suggestions?

Brian likes Baxter’s Bacon and Lentil soup.

 He also likes Primo brand soups, which I have tried and find them to taste like old tomatoes pureed with old man sweat and pickled egg brine. Not nice. Brian and I are so different in our taste of soups. It’s a wonder we’re still married after 6 months. We do not speak of it.

A caveat, because there is always a caveat: I do not like fish soup. Every weekend Brian and I go to the same pub for our date night dinner and every time the soup of the day is clam chowder. I’ve complained. For years, people, of going there every week. Finally, this past week, they changed it to Spicy Black Bean and Chicken soup. I wasn’t in the mood for soup. Damn it.

My friend Jane likes fish soup. Eww. She’s weird. Likes children and art, too. Totally weird.

What kind of soup do you like?