On 7/13/2015 1:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/13/2015 9:15 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:48:11 -0700, sf > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:12:28 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-07-13 8:59 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> Everyone loves pea soup.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> No. I like lots of things, but pea soup isn't one of them.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I loathe split pea soup. I even forbade a stranger next to
>>>>> > me to order it when it was the soup of the day. It is up
>>>>> > there with refried beans, to me. Blech.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It has always been one of my favourite soups, but there is a huge
>>>>> range
>>>>> of the stuff. I was raised with Habitant pea soup, which I think is
>>>>> the
>>>>> best commercially made split pea soup. Maybe it is because that was
>>>>> what
>>>>> I was raised on. I make my own these days and it is infinitely better
>>>>> than store bought. I always make some extra for my brother because he
>>>>> loves it. His wife hates it with a passion.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not a soup lover by any means, but I like bean soup and I've never
>>>> had an objection to split pea. I don't know how people can say they
>>>> hate a general category when they're actually talking about a premade
>>>> product in a can. I will say I hate chickpeas/garbanzos/cici beans
>>>> unconditionally when they are whole and I can say that because I've
>>>> eaten them both canned and reconstituted dry.
>>>
>>> I hate canned soup, any canned soup. I make home-made soup even
>>> though there is only me and then freeze it in single portions.
>>> Quickest lunch going.
>>
>> Amen! I am not denigrating anyone here, but I get so disappointed when
>> I read a US recipe and so often I find condensed soup as an
>> ingredient I am sure there must be many recipes without, but I mostly
>> seem to find the ones that do
>>
>>
>
> Cooking with condensed soup is what American cooks unabashedly did
> during the 60's. I don't think it's a popular thing to do in these
> modern times. OTOH, there are exceptions like green bean casserole in
> which canned soup should be used to remain faithful to the traditional
> recipe.
>

Damned straight!

And Durkee fried onions too!

> When I was I kid, I'd stuff a flank steak with canned beef vegetable
> soup and braise it. It seemed like a fancy thing to do. I wouldn't do it
> these days because frankly, the very idea makes me ill and besides, have
> you seen the prices on flank steak these days?


You need to use Pepperidge Farm, stuffing.

Trust me on this...