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Default Oxtail Soup (WAS: Sweet Mama!)

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Ranée at Arabian Knits > wrote:

> In article >,
> hahabogus > wrote:
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> > Potato leek soup isn't a manly man kinda soup. Manly man type soup has got
> > meat in it or beer.
> > To me a leek is a wanna be onion, just tastes like weak onion, no umph!
> > Manly
> > man soups gotta
> > have umph.

>
> That's funny. My very manly husband, who isn't even all that fond of
> most soups, loves potato leek soup. It is thick and flavorful. Maybe
> you have a bum recipe? Or bum leeks?


My potato leek soup has lots of "umph" to it. I add it at the table.
It's Tabasco sauce, or some other variant of red pepper sauce. My
daughter and sons like "umph" also, but my wife doesn't, so that's why
we add it at the table and not much on the stove.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA