Delicious Ham and Potato Soup Recipe. Fresh Tastes. Last month I wrote about how Italians make clever use of stale bread by turning it into a salad.
This month we go to the Castilla y León region of Spain where clever peasants of yore turned stale bread, garlic, and scraps of ham into a delicious soup. The beauty of this dish is that it makes for a light summer meal when you don’t want to have the stove on for too long, and a hearty appetizer during winter. I’m all for dishes that don’t take a lot of time or ingredients and this soup delivers a lot of bang for your buck. The bread soaks up the soup, giving it a pudding-like texture, while the poached egg lends a creamy richness that belies its humble origins. While most traditional recipes use Spanish ham to make the stock, I tend to use chicken stock just because it’s what I keep in my pantry. Discover how clever Spanish peasants turned stale bread, garlic, and scraps of ham into a delicious soup from Marc Matsumoto of No Recipes.
Ingredients Directions Yield: 1-2 servings. Chili Chicken Soup with Cilantro Dumplings Recipe from Betty Crocker. Baked potato soup. We’re on day two of something called a “wintry mix” which I suspect if I lived in one of those places where one was forced to wear shorts and sunglasses in January, eating food plucked recently from the ground (pea tendrils, anyone?)
I’d imagine constituted a fun day of mixed winter activities, like snowfall fights followed by ice skating and then, if you’re not too tuckered out, some hot cocoa before you head home. Alas, a “wintry mix” is the precise reason my only current goal in life is to flee to someplace tropic and sandy. And make soup. Except, me and soup have been on unstable terms this year.
So I was almost done with soup when I starting thinking about baked potatoes and how it’s been too long since I had a great one and how awesome it would be to make a soup that embodied everything you liked about baked potatoes — including, should you dare, cheddar, sour cream, bacon bits and chives — but in a bowl. I know what you’re thinking: “But where’s the baked potato?” Serves 6. Yammies Noshery: Broccoli Cheese Soup: Panera Bread Copycat Recipe - StumbleUpon. On Wednesday my sister and I volunteered to make the soup supper to go with the Advent service at church. Before you go thinking I'm some kind of charitable, goodhearted soul, I must tell you that the only reason that I do it is because I LOVE COOKING. In case you hadn't figured that out yet. Okay, so I was like, "Whadaya think, Nemo? Will two huge pots of soup, a crockpot full of barbequed meatballs, five trillion chicken salad sandwiches, fifty thousand and two loaves of bread, and a couple bazillion desserts cover it?
" Well, it would have, except everybody had to try a huge bowl of BOTH kinds of soup AND meatballs. Barbequed meatballs in broccoli soup. I had to leave the room. Anyways, we ran out of soup after about ten minutes of serving. So during church I had a sudden inspiration (um, Pastor, if you're reading this, that was a typo. Anways, I burst out of church and ran up to my friend screaming, "Hey guess what!!
Yeah. I mean it would be like getting paid to have fun. Okay.