Soup
 

Now that the weather is cooling off a bit, I'll be thinking about soup! I love soup. I fix a batch and eat on it for several days. I take it to school for lunch, it is so easy to just pop in the microwave.

Do any of you have a favorite soup recipe? I have a few and will post them later.

I eat soup 3 or 4 times a week! I make a potato soup with the sides you put on a baked potato that's probably my favorite. Harold makes a chicken tortilla soup that's yummy and probably my second choice. We don't really use a recipe, just make our own. There's an Italian cafe (Piazza) just outside my office building that has the best Tomato Basil.

I'm ready for homemade chili and enchiladas. For some weird reason, I only want chili when it's cool outside.

Mmmmmmm, soup sounds so good!! I like to make Taco Soup!!

That not weird!!! I ONLY eat chili when it's cool outside too!!! LOL!!

Yes, I love Taco soup too!!! I'm getting hungry!

I have a friend that makes the best potato soup. I really need to get her recipe because I just love it!! I'm not a big chili eater...got sick once on chili....not a good thing...lol.

I do like tomato soup and creme of broccolli. I should really look up some recipes for soup.

Don't know if it's considered a soup, but I love beef stew in the winter time with homemade bread.

Yum, beef stew and cornbread!

I love beef stew too! When I make roast, potatoes, carrots and onions, I save the leftovers, gravy included, cut everything up, throw in a can of V-8 juice and voila! you have beef stew and it is very very GOOD.

I like homemade bread with this, but cornbread is good too!

I make stew out of anything I cook :D When I'm cooking for just myself there's always leftovers, so if I roast a chicken or a beef roast or bison roast, I will make sandwiches for a few days and then cut up the rest and throw it in the slow cooker with some veggies and spices!
My mom makes delicious hamburger soup but I've never tried to make it. I always have enough in my freezer from her!

Well, now you must get the recipe from her and share it with us.

Yes, hamburger soup sounds like something we'd have often at my house! Post recipe, please.

I'll ask her for the recipe tonight :)

Potatoe soup sounds so good right now!!!
And yes I want your mom's recipe for hamburger soup too Lindsey! Sounds yummy.

My potato soup is really really simple. I cut up an onion and as much potato as I want and throw in the pan. I put in enough water to cover and boil till the potatoes are tender. I drain most of the water, but not quite all (for flavor). I fry a piece or two of bacon, cut it up and throw it and the grease into the potato pan. Next I add milk - 2% if I'm feeling fat, and whole milk if I'm not - or maybe even throw in a dollop of sour cream if I'm feeling very skinny. I like lots of potatoes in my soup so I only add enough milk to make it very potatoey. I heat till hot and bubbly around the edges, but do not boil the milk. Add salt/pepper to taste.

That's it. I put it in a bowl and sometimes add a tiny dollop of butter and then I break up toast into the soup and enjoy! Sounds kinda gross, but I grew up on this soup and I love it.

That sounds delicious Gayle! I love potatoes!

I asked my mom for the recipe for hamburger soup tonight, but she was really busy so she's calling me tomorrow night with the recipe!