Time To "Step Up"And Get On The Soup Box!

Fine lot of help you are! I still haven't decided, and time's a-wastin'. It doesn't help that DD and I were supposed to go grocery shopping (this morning) but DGD wanted to along. According to DD, we had to wait for her to get up. I just heard her walking across her bedroom (her room is right above The Hovel). It's cold. It's raining. I really can't get motivated to go out now. Maybe I'll make a shepherd's pie. Or a chicken pot pie. Or one of those soups. Still can't make up my mind, but when I finally do, I already have all the ingredients.

How much you wanna bet that DGD doesn't wanna go along after all? Kids.
 

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More noyds escaping. Now DGD doesn't want to go grocery shopping. She only wants to go out to eat. I don't think we have an emoji that snorts steam from the nostrils so just picture it. DD and I were up at 7. Figured on grocery shopping not later than 10. So...now we're going grocery shopping tomorrow morning at 9. Well, yanno, unless we need to wait for DGD to get up and decide if she "feels good" and wants to go along. According to DD, she's "cranky" because she doesn't "feel good." How much you wanna bet she feels fine as soon as she makes some plans with her friends.

Rant over. I'm gonna make some kinda soup because, dammit, I don't WANT something from the freezer that can be nuked. I. Want. Soup.
 
Oh, I love to make soup. I make "refrigerator stew" when my vegetable bin needs cleaning out. In go the limp carrots and floppy celery and the week-old half onion. In go the plastic container of lima beans from dinner three days ago and the potatoes starting to sprout. I might make chicken soup or I might make beef soup or there just might be vegetable soup with some Better than Bouillon flavoring it. Who knows.
 
"Refrigerator Stew" what a great Idea! Here's another link...

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So I made chicken pot pie, ate a piece, took the rest over and put it in DD's fridge. We reheated it and had it for supper Monday night. Yesterday I still wanted soup, but just when I was gearing up to create a pot of Mexican potato soup, DD brought me a cup of some kind of more-than-delicious Dairy Queen. That was around 2, and I wasn't hungry again until around 8 when I didn't feel like cooking. Maybe I'll try again today.
 
Mexican potato soup is finally in the crockpot. Did we think I'd ever get that far? LOL I might even make apple crisp for dessert if my desire for apple crisp overcomes my loathing for peeling apples.

Remember stoves with deep well cookers? As I recall, they were only on electric stoves. A back burner could be lowered and an insert that came with the stove put in there. My mother and grandmothers used to keep it on simmer forfreaking ever and almost all leftovers were added to the pot. On a busy day, like laundry day or Saturday when bread making took up a good bit of time, a Jar of home-canned tomatoes was added to it, the heat turned up, et voila!, soup for supper. It was never the same twice, but it was always good.

Something else they were good for was browning Sunday's pot roast first thing on Sunday morning, turning the heat down, and letting it cook while we were at church. It was a heavenly smell to come home to, especially in our cold, cold winters.

Those deep well cookers were probably what generated the notion and invention of the Crockpot.
 
To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.
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There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.;)​
 
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Meanderer said:
The strangest soup in a can.

Gather round the soup-box while I tell you about the strangest soup I ever saw in a can. It was in a "Foods of the World" type store, and there sitting on the shelf ....for $4.85...was a can of Bird's nest soup! I did not buy it, but I came close!

"The soup calls for the nest of a bird called the swiftlet or cave swift. These birds produce special nests found not in trees but in caves throughout southern Asia, the south Pacific islands, and northeastern Australia. (It would be closer to spit soup.)

As you can imagine, it’s not easy to attach a nest to a cave wall. These industrious birds use a mixture of seaweed, twigs, moss, hair, and feathers to fashion the nest. The truly bizarre secret ingredient: saliva. Male birds gorge themselves on seaweed, which causes them to salivate like a Labradoodle at a picnic. Saliva threads, which contain a bonding protein called mucilage, spew out of the bird’s mouth. Once dry, the saliva acts as cement. The crafty avian will continue to build on to the nest until it can support the weight of its bird family. The process usually takes about forty-five days."

http://andrewzimmern.com/2014/01/01/bizarre-bites-birds-nest-soup/

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They offer this soup in some Chinese restaurants in my area. Never tried it.
 
I thought about making a simple hamburger veggie soup today. That's as far as it got--thought about it. Then I thought about making pintos and cornbread. That's as far as it got--thought about it. A job well thought over is half done so there's hamburger veggie soup and pintos and cornbread half done. Maybe tomorrow.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I thought about making a simple hamburger veggie soup today. That's as far as it got--thought about it. Then I thought about making pintos and cornbread. That's as far as it got--thought about it. A job well thought over is half done so there's hamburger veggie soup and pintos and cornbread half done. Maybe tomorrow.
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Meals should be well thought out, instead of well thawed out!;)
 
So no hamburger and veggies were harmed yesterday. No pinto beans and cornmeal were harmed, either. I had Cheerios for supper. But I've been jonesing for tuna/noodle casserole for a while so made some today. Mine gets peas in it. DGD doesn't like tuna. DSIL doesn't like peas. I made it anyway, took it over to DD's kitchen and set it down on the top of the stove. I just went over to get some for lunch, and it had already been dug into. Hmmm. It's not soup, but it does have a can of cream of cr@p soup in it, so that counts, right?

I'm still wanting hamburger veggie soup and pinto beans and cornbread.

I'd post a recipe for hamburger veggie soup but it's one of those by-guess-and-by-golly soups. A little of this, a little of that, whatever veggies are available at the moment and envelope of onion soup mix. If it's just veggie soup with no meat, I throw in an envelope of Italian dressing mix. A creative cook I'm not.
 
Ina said:
Meanderer, Fried okra or pickled okra is very good, but boiled okra gets slimmy. :sick:

Watching someone eat boiled okra with the threads hanging down, and sliding
off the spoon (slimy): especially if a piece falls off and they try to grapple
with it-can't pick it up because it is so slick-ug!
Wrestling with boiled okra is a sporting event, not for dinner table.
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Sounds like fun, Jerry! I never tried Okra....but did enjoy the musical....
 

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