Prepare Interesting Soups for the Week With the Infinite Soup Pot
Many of us have fond memories of our mother’s or grandmother’s kitchen, usually with a constantly boiling pot of soup in the background – an endless pot of soup that adjusts to one or the other over the course of a week.
Serious Eats shows us how to use this humble, perhaps peasant- style approach to cooking in our own kitchen.
You start with one type of simple soup like French onion soup and add additional ingredients to make a more complex soup every day. (Because who wants to eat the same bowl of soup every day for a week?) This is a lot of improvisation, but the sample menu in the article is helpful, as are the following guidelines:
The Neverending Soup Pot is a fast paced process, and the simpler the first soup, the more you can do with it. Any broth is a good start, perhaps with a few vegetables. Maybe adding meat on the second day. The creamy ingredients can end up in the soup pot towards the end of the week, going from broth to soup without ever getting bored. One important difference from Ray’s great-grandmother’s approach: For food safety reasons, refrigerate your soup after each day, rather than leaving it on the stove all week.
The nice thing about this soup-making strategy is that you can use just about anything on hand to make a variety of soups throughout the week.
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