Let’s Try Soups and Stews
Hello and welcome back toWhat’s Cooking? , an open thread where you can share your brilliant thoughts, tips, recipes and opinions on all food related matters. Autumn has arrived, which means that I have focused on warm and soothing dishes, especially soups.
As always, I have several topics of conversation:
- Let’s start with stocks: how do you do them? What’s usually in your bag in stock? Is it always a chicken carcass or is it meatless? As you’d expect, I’ve got a lot of scraps, but my new favorite treasure is the rind of garlic.
- What’s your favorite cream soup? I can think of a little more delicious and soothing food than a bowl of corn chowder.
- How do you feel about using cheese in soups? Obviously I’m a fan of fried gruyere over a plate of French onions, but my mom used to make cheese and potato soup with Velveeta. I haven’t had this in years, but I bet it will work.
- Where did you end up in the big discussion about clam chowder? I’m a New England team, but aren’t they all?
- What’s the best noodle soup for your plate? I can’t think of a single noodle soup I didn’t like, but I’m in the pho phase right now.
- What’s your favorite multicooker soup recipe? I don’t actually use a multicooker to make so many soups and stews, but I would love to hear your favorites.
- How to make soups rich and flavorful, rather than soft and diluted? For me, it’s all about having a super tasty broth and paying attention to each ingredient individually. Coloring the vegetables before they come into contact with the broth will give them depth.
- What’s the weirdest soup or stew recipe you’ve ever made? My stepfather cooked a beef stew, filling the multicooker with cubes of beef, young carrots, diced potatoes and onions. Then he cover up and I mean cover -Everyone in ketchup and let them hang out for about eight hours on low. Sounds awful, but it actually worked out well.
As always, feel free to go for any soup-themed walk or touch you like. If it has to do with soup, stew, biscuit or chowder, I want to hear it.