What is your favorite soup?

[Warehouse23]

I don't think I ever met a soup I didn't like. Back in college at Chicago, I used to go into the Food Life eatery underneath the Hancock Building around 10:30 am on cold days before exams, order the "Bottomless Bowl of Soup," and proceed to eat soup and study until the place closed. All-day soup for $5.95 was perfect.

 

[Hijinks]

Also: Next time you eat soup, insist on calling it "sloop" until you've annoyed everyone around you. Continue to do so until you no longer find it funny.

Or if the person knows who Rachel Ray is, call it a "stoup" i.e. too thick to be a soup, too thin to be a stew. Most. Annoying. Rachel-Ray-ism. Ever.

Store bought: Campbells Butternut Squash Soup. I thought it sounded weird and decided to try it. It is yummy!

The southwestern corn is also yummy nummy goodness.

Here's my favorite soup. I make it every 3rd or 4th D&D night and the guys always like it

1 large can chunk chicken (drained)
1 can red kidney beans (drained)
1 can black beans (drained)
1 can white hominy (UNdrained)
1 can sweet corn niblets (UNdrained)
1 large can diced tomatoes w/green chiles (UNdrained)
1 package taco seasoning mix
1 package ranch dressing mix

Open cans; dump all ingredients in crock pot. Cook on low 6 hours or high 4 hours. Serve with sour cream and nacho chips. You can try to go healthy and skip the cream/chips, but while it is an excellent soup, sour cream enhances it to godliness.

I also like corn chowder and can dig up a good recipe that I got from Food Network (Tyler Florence, I think) if anyone wants it. And I love miso as well.

 

[frankthedm]

I do like salt a good deal so I do like the mass market canned soups more than they deserve.

New england clam chower. The thicker the better. Old country buffet used to have a really good and thick version.

Kosmos in romeoville, IL had an excellent baked french onion soup, though maybe too salty.

My grandfather makes an excellent homade vegtable beef soup.

 

[kenobi65]

While I do love cream based soups (and chowdahs), I don't really eat them anymore ever since I went to the doctor and she told me my blood type was "Hellmann's".

All that means is that, when the cannibals* finally get you, they're going to use your blood to make cream-based soup.

* - possibly from Paizo, if one recalls the tragic cannibalism episode from last winter.

 

[Chaldfont]

We made the aforementioned onion soup with Guiness last Sunday. It was good, but very salty. Next time I would make sure to buy unsalted beef stock.

Next up: a mushroom bisque recipe my wife found on the web.

 

[OakwoodDM]

Never liked soups really. The only one I do like is pea-soup. I don't even know if it's very known in elsewhere but here in finland it is pretty traditional.

At the very least it exists as far away as England. In fact, it's so well known that thick fog is sometimes called "a real pea souper".
We also have Pea & Ham soup, which happens to be one of my favourite varieties.

 

[Slife]

Clam chowder. New England clam chowder. New England Clam chowder without any bacon.

 

[Stormborn]

Here in the deep south any kind of chowder is not a common thing. Actually, soup in general isn't all that common in my experiance. However having said that my favorite soups are, in order:

1. My wife's Kale and Chicken Sausage Soup
2. Ukranian Borsht (mostly cabbage, little or no beats - I lived in Kiev for a year and a half, it grows on you)
3. Special Hot and Sour Soup - the kind with bits of chicken and shrimp etc in it
4. Corn Soup from a local Mexican resturaunt - its really thick
5. French Onion tied with New England Clam Chowder



Does Chile count as soup? If so my mother's chile would be #2.

 

[Merkuri]

Wonton Soup. One of my favorites, best at a little hole in wall where you can order in Chinese.

You know, I really really miss the type of wonton soup from my hometown. It seemed that every Chinese place made it the same way, so it just felt normal when I was living there, but when I moved none of the Chinese places we've tried have made it the same way. The places here use almost paper-thin noodles and a much lighter broth. I miss the old way, even if it did probably have MSG.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

New England Clam Chowder with a splash of Green Pepper Tobasco Sauce.