It’s split pea or ham and potato for me.
In my mind, soup is just a technique that’s really about the stock. This is just me suggesting that you all should adopt traditional French cooking technique.
For me, it’s saving old chicken scraps and certain veggies and then cooking them until they are mush in water. Grocery store rotisserie chicken skin, bones, and juice; carrots, onions, celery, garlic. Anything getting past it’s prime. No brassicas though. I’ll throw a t bone in there, but while really good beef broth is amazing, good beef bones cost as much as real beef.
Clam juice or shrimp/crab/lobster shells sauteed in butter with water (or the aforementioned stock…) Is also awesome.
Once you’ve got that, just put anything in it. That’s good soup.
Make sure that you put the correct amount of salt in it. If there’s no salt, stock tastes terrible.
Too hot for hot savory water in the summer, Id die
If you think summer is too hot for soup, you’ve never had a good Pho or Tom Yum Goong. Perfect soup for all weather.
It’s becoming summer in the southern hemisphere, and we’re not stopping the soup. We’ll have more Gazpacho and chilled borscht but we’re still souping it up down here.
Give me a recipe for the ideal non seafood based cold soup, that I may supp of this fabled summer soup