On 7/13/2015 2:35 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> 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.

ROFLOL!

You mean someone actuaklly eats the underneath?

Dang!

>>
>>> 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.


I yield to the power of your imagination and suspension of simple physics.

I must have shared the french onion soup dumplings recipe with you, yes?

Somethings are so wrong they have to be right!