Author’s note: This is the last time I’m going to acknowledge starting up the ol blog again after a million months of nothing. Going forward I’m gonna jump right in and pretend I’m someone who’s good at committing to projects!
REAL BLOG STARTS NOW!
Tis the season to stick your face in a big bowl of hot liquid and think to yourself “does bathwater count as human broth?”
Today we’re talking all things soup, kids. I’ve asked the smartest people I know to chime in on the matter, since my soup knowledge and opinions are fairly limited AND I always burn my tongue on the first slurp-bite.
So here’s a little bit of what I have to say about soup, and a lotta bit of what others have to say soup-wise.
Me on Soup
Soup is good but sometimes I don’t think it’s filling enough to constitute a meal – I’ll think a small cup will be enough for lunch but then I’m hungry an hour later (might just be a personal problem). Also why is it so expensive? A tiny cup of Chicken Tortilla at the Whole Foods hot bar is like $4 and I know they just dumped it from a big soup bag. I’m a sucker. A soup sucker 😦
In the before times, I would spring for a tomato feta cup of soup at Pret and would eat it with the cute lil Pret roll and that was nice. Once I made the mistake of looking up the ingredients and the sodium count was…concerning. Don’t look it up 🙂
Other soups of note:
- Trader Joe’s sells “Cuisine Adventures” frozen French onion soups – these big brown ice cubes microwave up real nice in 5 min. Has cheese n lil croutons. Apparently you can put it in the oven for 45 min (???) for a real luxury soup experience and the cheese will brown/bubble on top, but if I’m committing an hour to reheating frozen soup someone please plug in my bedazzler because I need a hobby!!!
- Alison Roman’s PLS (Potato Leek Soup) – I made this last week even though I don’t really like potato in soups and I did enjoy it! I added pancetta on top which I think gave it a nice good salty crunch. She wouldn’t shut up about dill in her novella of a recipe but I will admit the dill added something nice so I’ll give her this one.
- Chicken noodle – sick soup. Preferably homemade but I guess Campbell’s with the sawdusty chicken chunks will work too in a pinch.
- Fancy ramen from a ramen place – maybe my favorite of all soups. Love the noodles, love the spicy, love when there’s ground pork on top. I slurp and hold chopsticks incorrectly and get little dribbles on my shirt. My pee is neon the next day which again might just be me (anyone a doctor here?) but it’s a nice little reminder of what once was a delicious dinner.
Others on Soup
Sister on soup:
Last week I was talking about potentially making the Alison Roman soup and my sister said, “Well, it is soup season.” and I said “Oh, because it’s cold.” and she said “No, like being sick.” and I said “Oh, like because of pandemic.” and she was like “No.” and I said “Hmm Ok”. This was odd because neither of us are sick. I feel like she knows something I don’t know.
My mom on soup:
My friend who loves chili on soup:
A friend who replied to my Instagram story selfie on soup:
Maya on soup:
Soup should feel like a warm hug, which makes it the perfect COVID food because it’s the next best thing to human touch.
-My friend Maya
A Tik Tok-er on soup:
Ok that’s all I’ve got on soup for yas today. New posts coming soon! Stay tuned! Buy a bidet!
The Broke Yolk 
Missing the broke yolk. So happy to have a new one today. Thank you and keep em coming- always fun to read
LikeLike