I make veggie soup almost every week and have never followed a recipe.
Fine for veggie soup, but if you do that with ribollita, you leave out the juniper. Which is where I was going wrong.
I make veggie soup almost every week and have never followed a recipe.
I was inspired and made Italian Wedding soup. Yum. Homemade meat balls, loads of spinach, it was soooo good. Thanks for the idea!
I'm a pozole freak--anyone else? --s6
Absolutely! Give me until tonight and you'll have it.Recipe or it didn't happen!
(Please?)
Recipe or it didn't happen!
(Please?)
Every time I roast a chicken (which is fairly often) I make stock from the leftover carcass, so I always have a TON of chicken stock in my freezer. The two soups I make most often are garlic soup and tomato fennel.
I love me a good soup.
A good, sharp meat cleaver can be used to chop through bone more easily than most knives....Last Thanksgiving, I planned on saving the turkey carcass and making turkey stock, but I found out none of my knives (which suck on a good day. Dear Santa, please bring me new knives) were sharp enough to get through the bones...
A good, sharp meat cleaver can be used to chop through bone more easily than most knives.
Also, if your knives are of decent quality, honing them often with a sharpening steel will help to keep them in top form almost indefinitely without the need to replace them.
The best quality kitchen knives I've ever purchased were for my daughter as one of her gifts when she was married. Within a year, all of them had been misused to the point where they couldn't cut through the crap of a conversation, let alone soft meat.
She blamed her husband for their sorry state, but either way, it was sad to see great cutlery abused and wasted in such a fashion.
I don't do soups. Not because I don't want to, but because I'm not good at them. Except for lobster stew.
But I had this idea of a chicken stock based soup with leeks and celery, perhaps some cream, and then some added Stilton cheese. Can any of you soup makers help me here? Is this workable?
Are you looking for a cheese soup, similar to a cheddar soup? Or are you looking for perhaps a puffy cheese dumping to go with the soup?
Tonight I'm going to experiment with a new dumpling recipe that includes an egg. Normally I have avoided those but according to the book I mentioned previously in this thread adding an egg will make the dumpling more airy.
They weren't great knives and I've had them almost 16 years (bridal shower gift) so I don't feel guilty about wanting new ones. They'll be a gift to me.A good, sharp meat cleaver can be used to chop through bone more easily than most knives.
Also, if your knives are of decent quality, honing them often with a sharpening steel will help to keep them in top form almost indefinitely without the need to replace them.
The best quality kitchen knives I've ever purchased were for my daughter as one of her gifts when she was married. Within a year, all of them had been misused to the point where they couldn't cut through the crap of a conversation, let alone soft meat.
She blamed her husband for their sorry state, but either way, it was sad to see great cutlery abused and wasted in such a fashion.