Comments on: Soup is Good Food

By: Conz

Conz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:13:13 +0000

Hi soup lovers– I just got back from LA where I was tending to the heart of a friend and she requested my Split Pea Soup w/Ham. Here is my recipe for ya’ll:
Follow the directions on the split pea package– I use chicken stock instead of water–I like my carrots and celery chunked up into bite size pieces–Add a couple of hambones or hocks, saute’ onion and 4 cloves garlic, add to soup. After about an hour or so, give or take, remove hamhocks, cool, remove meat, add back to soup. Sometimes I put in a cup of red wine– I always add more love than the recipe calls for. Vegetarians–leave out ham, add extra love. ENJOY!

By: beezersmom

beezersmom — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:45:10 +0000

Sometimes when I am cooking for my family or for friends, I think about the small gestures I am making and how (mostly) women have been doing this act for thousands and thousands of years. Nothing I am doing is original. My mother, her mother, and so on, have been doing the ritual of the hearth forever. Doesn’t that make it sacred?

By: Barb G.

Barb G. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:12:16 +0000

A big mug of hot chocolate, cinnamon toast and my mom sitting at the kitchen table. There to greet me after a long day at elementary school; asking about my day, connecting as mother and daughter. In out busy family this was “my time” with mom. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:47:50 +0000

There’s nothing like homemade soup. My mom’s chicken soup with matzoh balls is the bomb. So much so that her new Japanese granddaughter-in-law, who isn’t all that excited about non-Japanese food, requests it, weekly. Besides my mom’s soup, the classic comfort food for me is cream of wheat, and now burritos are on my list. Comfort doesn’t always have to be nostalgic. Connie, I can smell that soup you describe, it sounds so divine.

By: Christie

Christie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:45:33 +0000

Crikey, I can smell that soup Conz! I’ll be right over. Don’t you just love that scene in Fish Called Wanda where Cleese is naked and the people come back to the flat? Its so English to avert your eyes and carry on as normal.

By: dearpru

dearpru — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:29:32 +0000

It’s chilly, damp and raining (again) today in Vermont, making me wish I could knock on your door and sit down for a bowl of fragrant, steaming soup–with you and the other smart, funny and earthy women I’ve come to know through fiftyisthenew.com.

By: Cindy L

Cindy L — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:25:05 +0000

The process of making soup is an act of comfort for me, too. This week, my mother-in-law and husband prepared to move my father-in-law into an assisted living home. (He has dementia.) It has been an emotionally trying time for us all, so the first thing I thought of was to head to the kitchen to start a pot of vegetable soup to feed them.