Soup

It's a mild but rich flavour made sweet by the onion. It's nice cold too but we have it hot.

I'm not really pink and grinny you know dodoguy, but I do smile at every opportunity. Cooking is one of my favourite things. I have tried to make a turkey meatloaf and hated it. It was gross which is very strange because I love turkey very much. I've never had turkey soup...I'll have to look up my recipe file and give it a go.

I think I had Minestrone soup once and it was superb except I think there was celery in it and that spoiled it for me....I detest cooked celery unless it's melted into the dish. I puree vege soup and make a broth. I know Minestrone has to be chunky with all the different bits.

Hi again,

You might have forgot to put the corn in the turkey meatloaf.

No meatloaf is complete without corn!

(Goes well in Minestrone too).

Homemade anything is the best I think.

I've never made chicken soup or minestrone. I'm a only ever used to make beef/vegetable soup and oyster soup. I'll have to look into Minestrone as I love anything rich. I'm having to seriously watch what I eat though so rich is pretty much out. I have no discipline whatsoever and my scales are only able to climb...they never go down.

I solved with problem with my scales goung up and not down.
I threw them away and never bought another set.

Well then~ thank you your majesty for visiting my humble post . Nothing gets wasted in our house either. I have animals and there is just me so I make a big amounts of dishes and freeze portions for another day. I even make a big pot of dog food that feeds two dogs, sometimes the cat and lasts for a week. .

Wow PearlGrace, some of those soups sound awesome...like whole meals. I've had gazpacho, I can't remember much about it but I did enjoy it. Is the white bean and sausage soup hard to make? It all sounds delish! Mmmmm.

Hello MsTickle.
The recipe for the White Bean and Sausage Soup is quite simple. It's from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine #10. You know, the little ones, about the size of the Readers Digest, in the grocery stores? It takes less than 30 minutes total to cook from start to completion and only about half that is prep time. The recipe serves 4. Here goes.

Brown 3/4 pound (I use 1 lb.) of sausage (I used Jimmy Dean's Sage sausage, but any will do) over medium heat, breaking up in small pieces. Add 1 small chopped onion and 2 minced garlic cloves. Cook and stir til sausage is browned and onion soft, about 8 minutes.

Add 14.5 oz. can of diced tomatoes (I use low sodium if I can find it) and 1 14.5 oz can of reduced sodium chicken broth. Bring to boil. Then, turn down to simmer with cover partially on until tomatoes are soft, 10 minutes.

Stir in a 19 oz. can of cannellini beans, drained and rinsed and simmer for 2 minutes til heated.

Add coarse salt and ground pepper. Stir in 1 TB chopped fresh basil if you have it, or a little dried basil if that's all you have.

Sprinkle grated parmesan and whole fresh basil leaves on the top after you ladle it into bowls.

Hope you enjoy this, MsTickle. I usually make grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches with this soup. My husband really digs this meal!
Take care.
PearlGrace

Thankyou so much. I'm not sure about the sausage as we don't have those in Australia. What sort of meat is in the sausage? Our sausages would fall apart if we cut them up to cook them.

MsTickle,
There are all types of sausages but for this soup, I use pork sausage. It's okay if it falls apart (like what we call "bulk sausage" in the U.S.) because that will just make small bites of meat in the soup. One could also use a well-seasoned turkey sausage or chicken sausage in this soup as well.

Take care.
PearlGrace

Hi Gerty, now yours is the second post that has mentioned cheese soup. I'm quite surprised. Yours sounds so very rich and yummy, I'm sure it's fattening. I'm trying to be good with what I eat...lol. Instead of cream in my pumpkin soup I used Carnation light and creamy evaporated milk. It has less fat content than the normal one and is recommended as a substitute for weight~loss programs that call for cream.

Yes, those cheesy soups can be bad if you do them all the time. Home made soups we have more control of. My cheesy soup was what I chose to do instead of eating out to get a quick meal. We have to weigh the values of our food and time.

I like to cook soups with meat bones for hours. These are the best kind for me. So nourishing.

my kids like eat bones soup with rice. I suggest for kids did'd like to eat..this food good for them.

You can eat the pumpkin soup cold Pye. It's very nourishing. I love chicken anything so I'm surprised I've never made chicken soup. I love "cream of...." anything too. I always make my beef/vege soups with barley...yummmmm. I actually bought a tin of pea and ham soup the other day. I just can't beat Dad's but I'll give this a go. I'm usually disappointed in canned soups.

Good luck with the article...I'm sure you'll come up trumps mate...you are a great writer.

I'll go along with that last statement mtdewgurl... .

It's like dieting....I like the seafood diet....If you see food...eat it.