z z wrote:
> My family never did soup-I don't know if that was because we were all
> big people and felt we needed more sustenance?
>
> Today I watched PBS Jacques Pepin preparing soups. He did something I
> have never seen before that makes me want to experiment with soup now.
> He topped his soup with chopped hardboiled egg...and banana slices???!
>
> Do you do soup?
>


I'm making a big pot of now -- French Onion soup, except I'm adding
celery to it along with the onions. Never tried that before, I hope it
works. The onions and celery are cooking down in a covered pot with a
little pepper and some beef fat, and it smells wonderful.

Wife brought home a bag of beef short ribs or rib scraps last weekend
and I roasted them briefly and then simmered until they fell apart.
Made some really rich stock (which I'm using for the soup this weekend)
and enough boiled meat for a few sandwiches, and lots of good bones and
gristle for the dogs.

Bob