Soup General - It's fall y'all

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Chili (legit chili, not this donkey shit Skyline) is the best soup (well, technically a stew).

My personal recipe:

The Dirty Bird:

Ingredients:
  • 1 lb ground turkey.
  • 1 cup chopped onions
  • 1 tbsp garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 2 cans kidney beans (light or dark, up to you)
  • 2 cans diced tomatoes
  • 1 can tomato paste
  • 2 cups chopped mushrooms
  • 1/2 cup green peppers
  • 2 diced jalapenos
  • 2 sliced ghost peppers
  • 2 sliced habaneros
  • 1 quill cinnamon
  • 1 stick lemongrass
  • 1 tbsp salt and pepper
  • 2 tbsp cumin
  • 1 tbsp paprika
  • 1 tsp chinese peppercorns, crushed.
Instructions:
  1. Set heat to high. Brown the onions and garlic in butter in a dutch oven or large pot, add the turkey, salt, pepper. cook turkey until medium-dark brown.
  2. Reduce heat to medium, add kidney beans, tomatoes, tomato paste, mushrooms, all peppers. Cook for 5 minutes constantly stirring.
  3. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add all spices, along with 2-3 cups water. Cover the pot and cook on medium-low heat for 90 minutes. Stir every 10 minutes, especially if you're using cast iron. otherwise, parts of the chili will burn.
  4. Serve over a baked potato or corn bread.
 
I think my favorite soup is French Onion. I had some like a month ago where the bread croutons were still crispy. Even though they were totally submerged in that tasty broth.
I make a dope soupa toscana I'll share:
Ingredients:
1 lb ground hot italian sausage
4 slices of bacon
32 oz chicken stock
4-6 potatoes
1 large white or sweet onion
4 cloves minced garlic
1/3 cup of white cooking wine (i guess any white wine works)
1/2 cup of heavy cream
2+ cups of spinach
1tsp of flour
1. Brown the Italian Sausage and put aside. I like to drain this and keep the greese out of the broth.
2. Fry up the bacon. I then break those 4 strips into thirds. You can use more bacon than this.
3. Chop up the onion and fry it in the bacon fat. CAREFULLY add in your cooking wine About halfway through cooking the onion i like to add the garlic (this keeps the garlic from burning in the fat) Once your onion is cooked sprinkle the flour over it.
4. Combine the chicken stock and your onions and garlic together. Get these boiling in a soup pot and add in your potatoes. I like to slice them into flat chips. (4 potatoes is a fine amount. I used 6 last time and i think i had a potato in every bite)
5. You want to have your potatoes in a boiling pot for at least 10-15 minutes. Before the full 15 minutes add your already cooked sausage and bacon pieces.
6. Once your potatoes are tender and cooked add in your fresh spinach and stir in your heavy cream. I try to keep the temperature down because I'm afraid of burning the cream. Just wait until the spinach has wilted and it bubbles a little.
This soup is basically the best thing Olive Garden has to offer and this one beats the shit out of it. Enjoy.
 
Probably my favorite soup to make/eat is bouillabaisse. It was the first thing I cooked for my (now) husband. I wanted the first thing I made for him to have something in it I killed myself (we are both avid shooters and hunters), so I went crabbing in the morning and caught some dungeness crab and prawns. Now I make it every new years.
 
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My grandma makes a cabbage soup with potatoes and kielbasa that once you add a touch of sour cream and pepper is absolutely amazing. Whenever she makes it I eat an embarrassing amount of it.
 
Soups good stuff, in the colder weather it's often Stew Sunday at Casa de Basso, I like to mix it up, but my chicken and egg noodle is a hit probably because it's got more chicken in it than anything else.

Ham and black bean is a good one, I find get those big chunks of ham and cube yourself works really well. Sometimes I'll even toss in a red eye gravy with it killer killer esp after moving snow or skiing or something.

When I'm feeling lazy I still am not above ramen with some egg thrown in extra spices or little pieces off a roast chicken etc. I got these really good udon soup bowls from a local asian market and they are like 1.50 a pop but decent lunch in a pinch, I keep a few in my work desk for a snack or to pass if a coworker is hungry. I'm legit impressed the noodle quality too.

I do not do tripe and I'm sorry to purists, but I fucks with Pho hard, but as a decent cook I just go out for it, I can't match it at home... and I keep snacking on the raw slices of steak, with zero shame.
 
I'm a huge fan of soups. I especially like mushroom soups. Portobello, yellowfoot, chanterelle, shiitake. Why favourite is perhaps the false morel.

I like vegetable soups too. Especially pureed ones. I've pretty much perfected the following recipe:

500g sunchoke
500g potato
500g carrot
500g onion
2l of water
butter
salt
pepper

Boil all in a large pot. When everything is soft, take off the burner and use a hand blender to puree it up. Add heavy cream. Cheap and nutritious.

Aside from that I'm also a huge fan of salmon soup. Disregard everything I just said, salmon soup is definitely my favourite. Potatoes, onions, carrots, leek, butter, cream, salmon. All in big chunks. Add salt and pepper.

Spinach soup is also delicious, especially with boiled eggs. You can add nettle too for fiber and flavor.

When I eat out I really enjoy Pho soup with pork belly or chicken.
 
I love tomato soup, especially with grilled cheese.
 
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