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Title: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 20, 2007, 12:59:51 PM
just about to go for my lunch and there a place across the road that does a wide range o soups! have been eating homemade vegetable for the last few days and fancy a change!! im thinkin minnestrone?! any other suggestions?!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Our Nail Loney on September 20, 2007, 01:02:35 PM
Homemade vegetable is very very hard to beat.

Scotch broth is good as well, I like a soup with some meat in it. My auntie makes vegetable soup but with beef in it and its class. She also uses vegetables freshly grown from her garden, class.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 20, 2007, 01:11:51 PM
Minestrone is your man
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: ziggysego on September 20, 2007, 01:15:08 PM
Carrot soup or Minestrone soup.

However, it's hard to beat the good old vegetable soup.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Our Nail Loney on September 20, 2007, 01:16:05 PM
I absolutely hate tomato soup though!

Even the smell near makes me retch!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 20, 2007, 01:18:25 PM
but im pretty hungry so im thinkin with the pasta in the minnestrone it mite fill me more than just a cream of chicken or somethin like that, im lookin a soup with a bit of substance, a bit of balls if you will!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 20, 2007, 01:19:14 PM
Quote from: 5iveTimes on September 20, 2007, 01:16:18 PM
You cant bate an oul bowl o Chicken Soup.

If you would stick to an oul bowl o Chicken Soup on a Friday night instead of a Chinese & bottle of wine you wouldnt be in the shape you are in ...........;)


Go for the minestrone with pasta young man
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: 5 Sams on September 20, 2007, 02:02:27 PM
Yer only man.....

Campbells Chicken Noodle
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!?? (edit:back from lunch)
Post by: kinghen on September 20, 2007, 02:11:33 PM
just back from lunch and ended up goin with the minestrone and it didnt disappoint! thanks to all!! i ended up goin all out italian then and got a ciabatta with mozarella and sun dried tomatoes and parma ham!! best lunch ive had all week id say! and i know its a bit "la dee da" but im not a bummer, as im normally a hang sangich dunked in the scotch broth kinda guy!!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: downredblack on September 20, 2007, 02:19:18 PM
Yer Ma's leek and spud is hard to whack
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stew on September 20, 2007, 02:23:14 PM
Baked french onion is great stuff.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 20, 2007, 02:29:48 PM
ma's leek and shpud= great shout, the leeks just give it a nice peppery touch will the spud gives ya that feeling of eatin somethin filling and wholesome that other soups cant!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: john mcgill on September 20, 2007, 02:33:14 PM
Best soup, other than what my Mum used to make, is the clam chowder from Legal Sea Food in Boston.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 20, 2007, 02:35:12 PM
I dont know about chowder john
I have reservations about classing it as a soup
It fills you up a wild amount, which if you are going for a 3 course meal a soup shouldnt do (imho)
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Gabriel_Hurl on September 20, 2007, 02:41:30 PM
Erin Country Veg - pity it costs nearly $3 a pack here
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: supersarsfields on September 20, 2007, 02:47:24 PM
Spud and leek is the best by a long way. Not one with lumps of spuds in it but rather one were the spuds have been through a blender and it's really thick.
Bung in a load of pepper and bobs your uncle!!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Puckoon on September 20, 2007, 04:36:09 PM
New england clam chowder.
Lobster Bisque
McElroys (rest in peace) vegetable soup.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stpauls on September 20, 2007, 04:43:16 PM
i have been known to make a great chowder, can't beat it with some warm crusty bread!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Puckoon on September 20, 2007, 04:44:09 PM
Christ its only 8.45am and Im ready to ate the end of the desk here. :-X
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: downredblack on September 20, 2007, 04:47:22 PM
StPauls , What would you throw into your chowder ?
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Niall Quinn on September 20, 2007, 04:50:18 PM
Quote from: full back on September 20, 2007, 01:11:51 PM
Minestrone is your man

Did you know that minestrone actually means soup (or 'one soup') in Italian, so when you ask for minestrone soup, it's tantamount to tautology!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 20, 2007, 04:52:10 PM
remember the simpsons when mayor "diamond joe" quimby's son/nephew was lauging at the french waiter for how he pronounce chowder???  ;D ;D ;D

chow deeeaaarrrr
chow deeeeaaarrrrrrr
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stiffler on September 20, 2007, 05:43:34 PM
Potato and leek

Carrot and Corriander

Scotch Broth

Everything else sucks ass
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: pintsofguinness on September 20, 2007, 05:51:12 PM
In order...
Homemade chicken and vegetable (my mammys - better than all your mammys I bet)
Chicken and sweetcorn
Chicken Noodle
Mushroom is really nice if you get it right!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: john mcgill on September 20, 2007, 07:48:06 PM
In Ireland we are superb at vegetable soup.  My wife, the gourmet that she is, cannot understand when I go to top class restaurants and I ask what the soup of the day is and why I am disappointed when it is not vegetable.  This is down to far way fields syndrome when I was in England and the States.
I think that the States is the best place for soup, pea and ham, chowders, minestrone and so on.  I also think that it is the best place for cooking steak.  I know far away fields syndrome!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: ziggysego on September 20, 2007, 07:49:57 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on September 20, 2007, 04:36:09 PM
McElroys (rest in peace) vegetable soup.

If we're on the same page, that place was a dark old dump.  :D Rué's much better, same people though.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: hoopsaaa on September 20, 2007, 07:52:27 PM
Little tiny bit of water and a big slug of Jameson - my own recpie.

Or even better save water and just have it on its own.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Puckoon on September 20, 2007, 08:30:30 PM
Quote from: ziggysego on September 20, 2007, 07:49:57 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on September 20, 2007, 04:36:09 PM
McElroys (rest in peace) vegetable soup.

If we're on the same page, that place was a dark old dump.  :D Rué's much better, same people though.

Ah ziggy - you are right. But it was my old dark dump, and the soup was fecking spectacular. I always enjoyed the front bar. Rue is ridiculous - 8 quid (16 dollars) for a f**king hamburger? And thats exactly how I phrased it to the boss just 2 months back.

Just back from lunch - had vietnamese seafood noodle soup. Not the most spectacular - but a good spicy feed none the less.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Fishbat on September 21, 2007, 05:12:51 AM
There is no such thing as bad soup, no matter what the mixture is its all good.

But theres something very special about veg soup made from the turkey bones at christmas,  could live on the stuff.

Actually i would be a lot healthier i'm sure if i did
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: maddog on September 21, 2007, 09:25:11 AM
Chinese chicken and sweetcorn is one of the handiest made and is lovely

However fav soup was experienced last night just.

I took a pound of ripe tomatoes (from the garden mind) slice in half
one red pepper sliced
one red onion peeled and cut into 4 quarters
3 or 4 garlic cloves unpeeled
olive oil

stick the lot in a baking tray and glug the olive oil over the top and roast at 190c for 35 mins (turn halfway through)

Put into the food blender with a couple of pints of stock and whizz her up.

Stick a fine sieve over the top of a saucepan and pour in the mix and let the sieve catch all the tomato skin and seeds.

When it has all run through stick in a pinch of sugar,a good dose of fresh ground black pepper and a wee bit of salt.
Cover and boil up for 10 mins. Take a cup full of small pasta (maccaroni) and throw it into the soup and cook it for 10 mins. The starch off the pasta will thicken the soup.
Dish it up with a bit of fresh basil on the top.

If any of you taste a better soup let me know ;)
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stpauls on September 21, 2007, 09:32:28 AM
Quote from: downredblack on September 20, 2007, 04:47:22 PM
StPauls , What would you throw into your chowder ?

DRB, i got the recipe out of Darina Allen's cookbook and of the top of my head I put cod, mussels, prawns, bacon, cream, salt and pepper, spuds, oinons (i think) and some other veg in it. in work at the minute but can get you the recipe when i go home this evening!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: oneillcup2007 on September 21, 2007, 09:36:38 AM
Maddog Im a bad bad cook but I reckon I could cook that.  What is a couple of pints of stock though?
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: oneillcup2007 on September 21, 2007, 09:40:48 AM
Did anyone evr try the soup diet for losing loads of weight. 
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: downredblack on September 21, 2007, 09:46:20 AM
Thks. StPauls . Sounds a nice drop .
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: maddog on September 21, 2007, 09:51:51 AM
Quote from: oneillcup2007 on September 21, 2007, 09:36:38 AM
Maddog Im a bad bad cook but I reckon I could cook that.  What is a couple of pints of stock though?

Boiling water and about 4 oxo stock cubes (usually do 2 veg 2 chicken)
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: oneillcup2007 on September 21, 2007, 09:54:45 AM
class thanks
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Bensars on September 21, 2007, 09:59:45 AM
Has to be Clam Chowder.

Nicest i ever had was a hotel in naas. Osprey Hotel. Sheer class
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:28:05 AM
Is anyone else dodgy about classing chowder as a soup?
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Bensars on September 21, 2007, 10:35:05 AM
Quote from: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:28:05 AM
Is anyone else dodgy about classing chowder as a soup?

Come on Fullback !!    Of course its a soup. No different to a hearty vegtable soup.

Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:38:35 AM
As I said previously bensars, when I have a 3 course meal I dont want to be about to burst after the starter. Undoubtedly some chowders fill you right up & you cant enjoy the rest of your dinner (IMHO)
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stpauls on September 21, 2007, 10:39:14 AM
depends on how much seafood is put in to it, i would certainly class it as more of a main meal the more chunky/meaty it is!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Bensars on September 21, 2007, 10:45:32 AM
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Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:47:50 AM
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Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: maddog on September 21, 2007, 10:58:06 AM
Quote from: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:38:35 AM
As I said previously bensars, when I have a 3 course meal I dont want to be about to burst after the starter. Undoubtedly some chowders fill you right up & you cant enjoy the rest of your dinner (IMHO)

If you have the chowder (one i do is haddock prawns and broccolli) and a few rounds of crusty bread you wont need another bite. No way should it be used as a starter.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: stpauls on September 21, 2007, 11:00:52 AM
Quote from: maddog on September 21, 2007, 10:58:06 AM
Quote from: full back on September 21, 2007, 10:38:35 AM
As I said previously bensars, when I have a 3 course meal I dont want to be about to burst after the starter. Undoubtedly some chowders fill you right up & you cant enjoy the rest of your dinner (IMHO)

If you have the chowder (one i do is haddock prawns and broccolli) and a few rounds of crusty bread you wont need another bite. No way should it be used as a starter.

agreed!!!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: full back on September 21, 2007, 11:02:53 AM
Am there as well
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: The Real Laoislad on September 21, 2007, 03:55:10 PM
Potato and Leek
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 21, 2007, 04:09:04 PM
haddock, prawns and broccoli!! ;D ;D :o

three of my fave foods!! thats gonna have to be tried out! nice shout!!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Our Nail Loney on September 21, 2007, 04:11:29 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm gonna be honest that sounds like my worst nightmare

Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: ziggysego on September 21, 2007, 04:14:50 PM
Nothing right about it atall.
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Puckoon on September 21, 2007, 04:20:34 PM
Agreed a large bowl chowder is a meal when served with bread. Doenst exclude it from being a soup though. And the fat content is unreal. Still though, its soup of the day in most resturaunts on fridays over here so, sllurrrrrrrp! ;)
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 21, 2007, 05:26:12 PM
our naill sure all you eat is chicken pie!!!

i love chicken pie!!!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Our Nail Loney on September 21, 2007, 05:31:21 PM
There's only one 'l' in nail! And you know I eat soup as well, sure remember you thught I was on a diet I was eating that much of it??

Have sorta went off chicken pie lately, probably had too much of it!
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: kinghen on September 21, 2007, 05:42:02 PM
iiiii dont want any trouble  ::)

was meant to put a ! instead of a l - im still a wee bit drunk from last nite, hatfield was good craic! was talkin to molo and johnny mess!! rriiittttee
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: pintsofguinness on September 22, 2007, 04:08:28 PM
Quote from: maddog on September 21, 2007, 09:25:11 AM
Chinese chicken and sweetcorn is one of the handiest made and is lovely

However fav soup was experienced last night just.

I took a pound of ripe tomatoes (from the garden mind) slice in half
one red pepper sliced
one red onion peeled and cut into 4 quarters
3 or 4 garlic cloves unpeeled
olive oil

stick the lot in a baking tray and glug the olive oil over the top and roast at 190c for 35 mins (turn halfway through)

Put into the food blender with a couple of pints of stock and whizz her up.

Stick a fine sieve over the top of a saucepan and pour in the mix and let the sieve catch all the tomato skin and seeds.

When it has all run through stick in a pinch of sugar,a good dose of fresh ground black pepper and a wee bit of salt.
Cover and boil up for 10 mins. Take a cup full of small pasta (maccaroni) and throw it into the soup and cook it for 10 mins. The starch off the pasta will thicken the soup.
Dish it up with a bit of fresh basil on the top.

If any of you taste a better soup let me know ;)


I take it you weren't hungry when you started that?  :-\
Title: Re: favourite soup flavour!!??
Post by: Tony hawks on September 22, 2007, 10:44:15 PM
Hot and sour soup for me