June 05, 2004
Soup's On!
 I just added two soup recipes to the collection: Chicken Noodle soup, and Split Pea Soup
These are basic soup recipes,although the addition of soy sauce to the Chicken Noodle soup is a trick of my own. The Pea Soup recipe is one I learned from my mother and grew up eating. It's one of my favorites, although there were times we substituted hot dogs for ham in the recipe, and sometimes I find myself missing them.
The key to giving most soups real flavor (so they don't just taste like water or broth) is properly sauteing the onions, celery and carrots for about ten minutes until they're really soft and slightly wet looking. This is commonly known as "sweating down" the vegetables. Most soups begin with this combination, except for cream soups where you wouldn't add the carrots in until later or they might add an orange tint to your soup.
posted by John at 10:30 AM
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