Do you have and enjoy having soup more often when it's winter time than any other time of the year?
Winter is coming, and I find myself craving soup more often. What kind of soups do you love to make?
I usually just stick to making chicken soups or corn chowders, but I was hoping you guys had some delicious suggestions to try out! Do you eat soup in warm weather?
While a chilled soup can be a refreshing novelty, I am referring to a hot, stock-based soup.
I grew up in a family that routinely made chicken stock from kitchen scraps and then chicken soup year-round.
I was surprised to find that an American friend only eats hot soup in cold weather. Which doesn't really make sense to me. People drink hot coffee regardless of the weather. And don't eat only cold food in summertime. Naturally, cold and lighter dishes are refreshing in hot weather. However, not eating hot soup at all in warm weather seems strange to me. Is this a common thing or unusual? I could be the strange one!! My friend broke her foot. When I had a broken foot, cooking was difficult because I couldn't stand up for very long so I dropped off several home-made meals from my freezer (that's what had kept us going through my own break- hooray for "frozen assets"). One of them was pea soup which is hearty enough to be a meal in itself. She ate the other things but said she would save the soup for winter time. Hey you guys, I'm a big fan of soups, stews and broths during the winter time and often drink it out of a mug like a coffee in the early to mid afternoon. I like to try new things and wanted to know what some of you like? I'll definitely try many of your recipes if you leave a comment! Here's my personal favorite:
Hi everyone! So it’s winter and a lot of people like myself are heading back to college in my area. Last semester a friend of mine had proposed the idea of doing communal dinners cooked in my dorm hall’s communal kitchen (had a glass top stove, microwave, oven, not much else) but we never got to starting that tradition. I hope to begin that tradition since a lot my friends have an hour commute to campus each day, so I want to be able to something nice for them. With it being winter and with the fact that soup is amazing, I figured I’d ask:
My associates seem to think that hot soups and chili can be eaten you're around. I personally disagree. I believe hot soup and chili should be a fall, winter time food. This is an ongoing debate.
What are your favorite soups and stews to make?
Do you eat vegetable soup often?
Hi! Here in Portugal, vegetable soup is the dish.
Everybody eats soup. It’s every baby’s first meal, all cafeterias serve it, cheap restaurant’s lunch menus have it, even McDonalds sells vegetable soup! I eat soup every day, always have some made in the fridge. Usually our soup is a base of potato, zucchini, onion, carrots, garlic, olive oil and salt. Plus whatever other vegetable you feel like, spinach, cabbage, peas...
Not too hungry? Soup. In a hurry? Soup. Hungry but dinner not yet ready? Soup. Is such a nice healthy habit.
Just curious to know if you guys also eat soup regularly.
Thanks everyone!
P.S. Don’t worry about the size of the recipes for my sake, I would never mind making too much soup and having to freeze it or scale the recipe down.
3:1:1 sweet potato to onions to carrot ratio
roast in some butter for a few minutes until onions turn clear
When is ‘too early’ for soup?
Am I the weirdo for settling down with a bowl, literally right now. Because according to my mate, I am an animal.
Add some salt, pepper and paprika
Add veggie, chicken or duck broth to cover and simmer for ~2h
Soup season is quickly approaching! What are your favourite soup recipes?
I just love the variety of flavours you can get with soups, and in the past year I've really tried and enjoyed stepping out of my "making the same few things over and over again" bubble. I made a fantastic potato soup the other day and have been baking tons of bread so I'm excited to try more!
Here is one of my favourites, salmon chowder!
I like to eat fresh/raw vegetables in the summer, I actually quite like them and is easier to stay into the limits when you can eat an entire cabbage with lime juice. But in the winter I want to have hot food, like soups, and the only soups we make are high in calories. I like to drink tons of tea and coffee (no milk or sugar), but my bad habit of eating biscuits with it ruins everything.
How often do you eat soup or stew - and where do you draw the line between the two?
I was feeling a bit under the weather and made myself some chicken soup. I then realized that the last time I had soup was months ago, when I was also feeling sick. Apparently, soup isn't a big part of my diet.
We ate stew frequently growing as way to repurpose leftovers. Probably ate it at least once every two weeks. We also ate chili with beans every other week or so in the winter. My spouse doesn’t like most soups, but does like chicken noodle soup. We will eat that about once every other month. I also like to order soup at most Asian restaurants, and my favorite type of soup is a brothy and slightly spicy Shanghai style noodle soup. I also eat instant ramen occasionally, and I always eat mine in the broth as a soup.
But how about you all - how frequently do you eat it? Do you eat it by itself or as a part of a larger meal? And where do you draw the line between a soup and a stew?
What do you eat to stay warm in the winter with not too many calories? How do you eat your vegetables in the winter?
250g red potatoes
Soup is better during hot weather than cold weather
When the weather is hot I constant crave and eat soup or soup based dishes.
Pozole, Pho, clam chowder, any meal that has a hot liquid or broth component is amazing during the hot summer days.
No, I am not dehydrated and that's why I think it's better. If I had to guess it's probably cus during the winter your body is cold and gets filled with hot soup and afterwards you just wanna sleep or nap. But during the hot weather days, my body processes it faster and I feel lighter yet full.
250g bacon, cut into small pieces
1 cup chopped scallions
I was traveling in Jakarta, Indonesia. I love their ox tail soup, which is called sop buntut. I went to a restaurant to have it and it was not so hot and almost like room temperature to me. Later I learned the temperature of soup isn't that important in Indonesia. If I asked, they'd give me hotter one. To me, a Korean, soup is supposed to be boiling hot. It always has been. That was the moment that it can be different in other cultures.
In Korea, we often eat something very hot, temperature-wise. After cooking in Ttukbaegi (clay pot), we often serve the whole Ttukbaegi on the meal table to keep the warmness for a long time. You can see Jjigae, Guk, or Tang like boiling lava in Ttukbaegi. Even if it's not stew-like food, we often eat Bibimbap or something moist in the warm Ttukbaegi.
You can see it in every Korean home and every Korean restaurant. You can especially see it a lot in Gukbab restaurants. Gukbab means soup(Guk) + rice(bab). The rice is inside the soup in a Ttukbaegi. When you go to such a place, you will see one Ttukbaegi per person. They eat hot rice in hot soup after blowing once or twice sloppily. They have such a painful expression on their face, all sweating. You cannot tell the sound they make is a sigh, a groan, or whatever.
1 cup fresh or frozen corn
Why don't people just eat soup every day?
It's super convenient, it's healthy, it's tasty, it's easy to eat, ...
Do you have a seasonal dish you like best in that season?
I’d say for myself it’s BLTs in summer and stews in winter.
Edit: 200+ comments- This is why I love this sub. So many people so passionate about food and how we make it. I’ve learned so much- thank you to everyone who have such great ideas for everyone involved ❤️
Why isn't soup seen as the standard food, as in, if one doesn't have anything else to eat, one just eats soup?
3 cloves garlic
I'm daydreaming of fall -- let's all share our best cold weather dishes/meals.
As the title says, I am dying for fall and imagining all the great food that comes with the colder weather. I am of the small minority that absolutely despises summer weather, in small part because I just do not want to cook at all. I have no desire to heat up the house or eat hot foods, so a lot of my favorite meals go on hiatus during the summer.
Currently I am dreaming about enjoying a crisp fall day outside and then coming home and digging into a big pot of chili and cornbread.
1 tsp finely chopped thyme
1 Bay leaf
1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
3 cups whole milk
2/3 cup heavy cream
750g salmon, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp fresh lime juice
Yes, maybe once a week in the winter. My favorite is a homemade taco soup which is almost like a chili - it has ground turkey, beans, Mexican style stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, taco seasoning, and corn, and you top it with shredded cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips. I also like clam chowder, tomato soup, homemade creamy chicken noodle soup, zuppa Toscana (like at the Olive Garden), and others.
chopped fresh chives
My favorite is either Tom Kah Kai with chicken or Vegetable Beef with Chuck. There will always be a special place in my heart for Campbell's tomato soup from concentrate with a grilled cheese sandwich. I would make it for myself as a child to eat at a little table set up like a restaurant and feel so sophisticated.
Cut potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes, then cook in a large heavy saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, 8-10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Cook bacon in a large heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 8 minutes. Transfer to paper towels and drain. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the pot, then cook scallions, corn, garlic, thyme, bay leaf and red pepper flakes in fat over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until scallions are tender - about 5 minutes.
Not a huge fan of soup. If I'm out somewhere and I'm extra hungry, I might order chicken noodle, but I find myself disappointed by it more often than not; otherwise if I see matzoh ball soup or gumbo on the menu, I have a high likelihood of ordering it. Oh, actually I get the broccoli cheddar bread bowl at Panera Bread any time I'm near a Panera Bread, but I really treat the soup as a dip for the delicious bread.
Is soup a main meal?
Help me settle this debate - can soup be a main meal? I'm not talking at restaurant, just at home, and proper nice soup with nice bread and all. Main meal, or only ever a starter?
Add milk and cream and bring to just a boil. Reduce heat to moderately low and add potatoes, salmon, bacon, salt, and pepper and cook, gently stirring occasionally, until salmon is just cooked and begins to break up as you stir, 5-8 minutes.
Stir in lemon juice and add salt and pepper to taste. If it is lacking salt, a splash of soy sauce can be nice! Discard Bay leaf before serving. Top with chopped chives.
Put in blender until creamy in texture
Add salt, pepper and paprika to taste
Serve with some cooking cream I was curious about how often the average American has soup as a meal (not an appetizer).
I usually just stick to making chicken soups or corn chowders, but I was hoping you guys had some delicious suggestions to try out! Do you eat soup in warm weather?
While a chilled soup can be a refreshing novelty, I am referring to a hot, stock-based soup.
I grew up in a family that routinely made chicken stock from kitchen scraps and then chicken soup year-round.
I was surprised to find that an American friend only eats hot soup in cold weather. Which doesn't really make sense to me. People drink hot coffee regardless of the weather. And don't eat only cold food in summertime. Naturally, cold and lighter dishes are refreshing in hot weather. However, not eating hot soup at all in warm weather seems strange to me. Is this a common thing or unusual? I could be the strange one!! My friend broke her foot. When I had a broken foot, cooking was difficult because I couldn't stand up for very long so I dropped off several home-made meals from my freezer (that's what had kept us going through my own break- hooray for "frozen assets"). One of them was pea soup which is hearty enough to be a meal in itself. She ate the other things but said she would save the soup for winter time. Hey you guys, I'm a big fan of soups, stews and broths during the winter time and often drink it out of a mug like a coffee in the early to mid afternoon. I like to try new things and wanted to know what some of you like? I'll definitely try many of your recipes if you leave a comment! Here's my personal favorite:
Hi everyone! So it’s winter and a lot of people like myself are heading back to college in my area. Last semester a friend of mine had proposed the idea of doing communal dinners cooked in my dorm hall’s communal kitchen (had a glass top stove, microwave, oven, not much else) but we never got to starting that tradition. I hope to begin that tradition since a lot my friends have an hour commute to campus each day, so I want to be able to something nice for them. With it being winter and with the fact that soup is amazing, I figured I’d ask:
My associates seem to think that hot soups and chili can be eaten you're around. I personally disagree. I believe hot soup and chili should be a fall, winter time food. This is an ongoing debate.
What are your favorite soups and stews to make?
Do you eat vegetable soup often?
Hi! Here in Portugal, vegetable soup is the dish.
Everybody eats soup. It’s every baby’s first meal, all cafeterias serve it, cheap restaurant’s lunch menus have it, even McDonalds sells vegetable soup! I eat soup every day, always have some made in the fridge. Usually our soup is a base of potato, zucchini, onion, carrots, garlic, olive oil and salt. Plus whatever other vegetable you feel like, spinach, cabbage, peas...
Not too hungry? Soup. In a hurry? Soup. Hungry but dinner not yet ready? Soup. Is such a nice healthy habit.
Just curious to know if you guys also eat soup regularly.
Thanks everyone!
P.S. Don’t worry about the size of the recipes for my sake, I would never mind making too much soup and having to freeze it or scale the recipe down.
3:1:1 sweet potato to onions to carrot ratio
roast in some butter for a few minutes until onions turn clear
When is ‘too early’ for soup?
Am I the weirdo for settling down with a bowl, literally right now. Because according to my mate, I am an animal.
Add some salt, pepper and paprika
Add veggie, chicken or duck broth to cover and simmer for ~2h
Soup season is quickly approaching! What are your favourite soup recipes?
I just love the variety of flavours you can get with soups, and in the past year I've really tried and enjoyed stepping out of my "making the same few things over and over again" bubble. I made a fantastic potato soup the other day and have been baking tons of bread so I'm excited to try more!
Here is one of my favourites, salmon chowder!
I like to eat fresh/raw vegetables in the summer, I actually quite like them and is easier to stay into the limits when you can eat an entire cabbage with lime juice. But in the winter I want to have hot food, like soups, and the only soups we make are high in calories. I like to drink tons of tea and coffee (no milk or sugar), but my bad habit of eating biscuits with it ruins everything.
How often do you eat soup or stew - and where do you draw the line between the two?
I was feeling a bit under the weather and made myself some chicken soup. I then realized that the last time I had soup was months ago, when I was also feeling sick. Apparently, soup isn't a big part of my diet.
We ate stew frequently growing as way to repurpose leftovers. Probably ate it at least once every two weeks. We also ate chili with beans every other week or so in the winter. My spouse doesn’t like most soups, but does like chicken noodle soup. We will eat that about once every other month. I also like to order soup at most Asian restaurants, and my favorite type of soup is a brothy and slightly spicy Shanghai style noodle soup. I also eat instant ramen occasionally, and I always eat mine in the broth as a soup.
But how about you all - how frequently do you eat it? Do you eat it by itself or as a part of a larger meal? And where do you draw the line between a soup and a stew?
What do you eat to stay warm in the winter with not too many calories? How do you eat your vegetables in the winter?
250g red potatoes
Soup is better during hot weather than cold weather
When the weather is hot I constant crave and eat soup or soup based dishes.
Pozole, Pho, clam chowder, any meal that has a hot liquid or broth component is amazing during the hot summer days.
No, I am not dehydrated and that's why I think it's better. If I had to guess it's probably cus during the winter your body is cold and gets filled with hot soup and afterwards you just wanna sleep or nap. But during the hot weather days, my body processes it faster and I feel lighter yet full.
250g bacon, cut into small pieces
1 cup chopped scallions
I was traveling in Jakarta, Indonesia. I love their ox tail soup, which is called sop buntut. I went to a restaurant to have it and it was not so hot and almost like room temperature to me. Later I learned the temperature of soup isn't that important in Indonesia. If I asked, they'd give me hotter one. To me, a Korean, soup is supposed to be boiling hot. It always has been. That was the moment that it can be different in other cultures.
In Korea, we often eat something very hot, temperature-wise. After cooking in Ttukbaegi (clay pot), we often serve the whole Ttukbaegi on the meal table to keep the warmness for a long time. You can see Jjigae, Guk, or Tang like boiling lava in Ttukbaegi. Even if it's not stew-like food, we often eat Bibimbap or something moist in the warm Ttukbaegi.
You can see it in every Korean home and every Korean restaurant. You can especially see it a lot in Gukbab restaurants. Gukbab means soup(Guk) + rice(bab). The rice is inside the soup in a Ttukbaegi. When you go to such a place, you will see one Ttukbaegi per person. They eat hot rice in hot soup after blowing once or twice sloppily. They have such a painful expression on their face, all sweating. You cannot tell the sound they make is a sigh, a groan, or whatever.
1 cup fresh or frozen corn
Why don't people just eat soup every day?
It's super convenient, it's healthy, it's tasty, it's easy to eat, ...
Do you have a seasonal dish you like best in that season?
I’d say for myself it’s BLTs in summer and stews in winter.
Edit: 200+ comments- This is why I love this sub. So many people so passionate about food and how we make it. I’ve learned so much- thank you to everyone who have such great ideas for everyone involved ❤️
Why isn't soup seen as the standard food, as in, if one doesn't have anything else to eat, one just eats soup?
3 cloves garlic
I'm daydreaming of fall -- let's all share our best cold weather dishes/meals.
As the title says, I am dying for fall and imagining all the great food that comes with the colder weather. I am of the small minority that absolutely despises summer weather, in small part because I just do not want to cook at all. I have no desire to heat up the house or eat hot foods, so a lot of my favorite meals go on hiatus during the summer.
Currently I am dreaming about enjoying a crisp fall day outside and then coming home and digging into a big pot of chili and cornbread.
1 tsp finely chopped thyme
1 Bay leaf
1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
3 cups whole milk
2/3 cup heavy cream
750g salmon, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp fresh lime juice
Yes, maybe once a week in the winter. My favorite is a homemade taco soup which is almost like a chili - it has ground turkey, beans, Mexican style stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, taco seasoning, and corn, and you top it with shredded cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips. I also like clam chowder, tomato soup, homemade creamy chicken noodle soup, zuppa Toscana (like at the Olive Garden), and others.
chopped fresh chives
My favorite is either Tom Kah Kai with chicken or Vegetable Beef with Chuck. There will always be a special place in my heart for Campbell's tomato soup from concentrate with a grilled cheese sandwich. I would make it for myself as a child to eat at a little table set up like a restaurant and feel so sophisticated.
Cut potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes, then cook in a large heavy saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, 8-10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Cook bacon in a large heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 8 minutes. Transfer to paper towels and drain. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the pot, then cook scallions, corn, garlic, thyme, bay leaf and red pepper flakes in fat over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until scallions are tender - about 5 minutes.
Not a huge fan of soup. If I'm out somewhere and I'm extra hungry, I might order chicken noodle, but I find myself disappointed by it more often than not; otherwise if I see matzoh ball soup or gumbo on the menu, I have a high likelihood of ordering it. Oh, actually I get the broccoli cheddar bread bowl at Panera Bread any time I'm near a Panera Bread, but I really treat the soup as a dip for the delicious bread.
Is soup a main meal?
Help me settle this debate - can soup be a main meal? I'm not talking at restaurant, just at home, and proper nice soup with nice bread and all. Main meal, or only ever a starter?
Add milk and cream and bring to just a boil. Reduce heat to moderately low and add potatoes, salmon, bacon, salt, and pepper and cook, gently stirring occasionally, until salmon is just cooked and begins to break up as you stir, 5-8 minutes.
Stir in lemon juice and add salt and pepper to taste. If it is lacking salt, a splash of soy sauce can be nice! Discard Bay leaf before serving. Top with chopped chives.
Put in blender until creamy in texture
Add salt, pepper and paprika to taste
Serve with some cooking cream I was curious about how often the average American has soup as a meal (not an appetizer).
