On 7/13/2015 9:51 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> 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!

That is good stuff - I can't say that I like green bean casserole but I
don't mind it every once in a while, but only if you serve me the top
1/2" or so. Hee hee.

>
>> 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...

That could be do-able. OTOH, stuffing a flank steak with soup is
something that could only have existed in the 60's.