Search & Destroy: Soup

I did a couple of months ago buy a cream of chicken tin in a bold attempt to 'get into soup' but I've not been brave enough to eat it yet.

Destroy: Heinz leek and potato which is a glutinous mess. Any Heinz Big Soups. Packet soups.

Miso = the soup of the devil, I don't care how good for me it is, it tastes like cum.

Destroy:Cup-a-Soups, horrible over salty slop with sad looking vegetables and rock hard "croutons". In disgusting flavours.

This kind of question encapsulates the reason soup is bad.

Tangent: Office so cold that Enthusiastic Graduate S*** is wearing FINGERLESS GLOVES. Will she start up that trend again amongst enthusastic graduate jobbers??

Best soup in the world = bouillbaise, with all the trimmings. It's a soup that creates two courses just by itself!!

never having cooked at age 27 = dud

Search: B'baw mouan, an ultra-spicy Cambodian soup served at a Cambridge/Boston restaurant called The Elephant Walk. Made up of rice, chicken, lime, cilantro, scallions, garlic, and more chili powder than you can shake a stick at. Mmmmmm...

It was good, though the texture and toughness of the intestines was a bit difficult to adjust to. Next time, I'll order the Sushi Deluxe or some nice Udon noodles.

Creamy soups are blech. Onion soup is SO GOOD (including the mother of all croutons, hiding beneath the five-foot layer of thick & crusty cheese, all nice & soggy) - it's a shame I'm lactose intolerant and incapable of rightly enjoying onions. Miso soup is excellent as well - Emma is a mentalist (sic?). Most Italian-type soups (i.e. minestrone, pasta fagioli) could be good, but they're so easy to feck up. Egg drop soup is heinous blech. (I know I misspelled something there.)

And chicken gumbo - specifically, the chicken gumbo I used to gorge myself on while feasting at the All You Can Eat Salad Bar & Soup Trough at a nearby Abdow's Big Boy back when I was a wee pisser. Okra is a wonderful vegetable.

Fave soups -- a clam chowder is a thing of the gods when done right, and must be worshipped. Corn chowder isn't far behind. Miso is of course godlike and perfect for something warm when you don't want tea. The Vietnamese national dish, more or less, is pho, aka soup, and any good Vietnamese place around here worth its salt makes kickass pho combinations, but the basic mix of noodles, broth, beef, hoisin sauce and the like is perfection. I've not had many Japanese soups (I'm not counting Top Ramen or such abominations), but a local place serves up a variant (?) called nabe -- Momus, help me out here -- and with chicken it is divine (it lacks udon noodles, so essentially it's like a lighter stew). Shark fin soup I need to finally try, though I gather the sharks themselves object and they're getting a rough enough time these days as it is. Tortilla soup is likely more a California fusion than actually Mexican but still works when done right, and my good friend Karen is the mistress of Anarchy Soup, aka 'take whatever is around and put it together.' Always works best with a tomato broth (oh yes, a thick tomato soup is a definite highlight of life).

Soup, soup. Pea soup my friends. Pea and Ham - when it comes out the tin it is solid. Num num.

I am curling my toes in glee.

Hmmm Hmmm, Smells Like Minestrone.

Clam chowder (NE style) is another amazing soup, as are the aforementioned french onion and the ultra-trendy (3 years ago) carrot and ginger soup. Mmmmmmmm....

must be with crusty brown bread and salty butter

"Latin" Black Bean Soup A+++

made some clam chowder the other day - butter, tiny bit of flour for a roux, potatoes, fresh clams, milk. so damn simple, but comforting and yumm!!

Perfect timing for reviving this thread! Going to Asian market tomorrow to get ingedients for my wife's wonderful kim chee soup, and am already hungry with anticipation. Like so:

http://aeriskitchen.com/pic/kimchi_soup_01.jpg

oh, good lord, i LOVE kim chee with a passion. there's a noodle joint in Japantown (san francisco) that puts kim chee on top of a bowl of noodles and it's one of my favorite dishes, period.

Oh man, how is that kim chee soup made? It looks fabulous. I adore kim chee but I can't seem to convert my husband.

two winters ago my wife and I had a soup bracket competition. We found 12 soup recipes that sounded good and over the course of the winter we made them all and then pitted them against each other in a March Madness-style bracket. I don't think we ever picked an ultimate winner because we didn't have a way to decide soups that we disagreed on and also it's hard to pick between two totally different types of soup (like how do you pick a winner between carrot sage soup and tortilla soup?) but we added some really delicious soups to our repertoire.