Making soup again today and damn!

[Fuzz]

The beef stock that I'm making right now is driving me nuts, it smells so good.

I browned the soup bones in the oven first with some carrots, onions and celery. Browned some stew beef in the stock pot first, removed it and set it aside, then transferred the stuff I had in the oven into the stock pot. Added garlic, a tomato, 3 small potatoes cut up, another onion, fresh parsley and oregano from my garden, whole peppercorn and some salt and covered with filtered water and it's gonna simmer there for like 5 hours. Smells so good.

In the soup goes the browned stew meat, potatoes cut into small bite size pieces, carrots, celery and homemade spaetzle. A meal all by itself.

And no, you can't come over! Ok ok, you can if you want, but you gotta bring fresh crusty bread and beer!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. When we make stew, we use tomato sauce...

It gives it something extra. I also put in stewed tomatoes...and we usually don't use stew meat. We use Sirloin Steak. Then we put in potatoes, baby carrots, green beans, and corn. Yummy Yummy Stuff. We usually let it sit on top of the stove for hours and just let it boil. But your stew sounds good too, I've just never had it with beef stock.
Duckie

[Fuzz]

2. It's not really a stew, more of a hearty soup

[acmavm]

3. Made soup yesterday out of left overs. Left over pot roast with mushrooms

and gravy from a couple days ago, left over sirloin (splurged big for the grandson) from Friday.

Left over beef gravy is excellent in the broth. I don't use milk, but I do use cream of mushroom soup. And I used diced tomatoes when making the roast.

Put in a pack of mixed vegetables and some farfelle (bow tie noodles in case I didn't spell it right), and voila, my son and grandson's favorite soup. (They don't like potatoes in it very well, they prefer the pasta).

[lizziegrace]

4. That sounds wonderful!

It's so cold here today.

I cooked a chicken and a tenderloin in the crockpots yesterday. The house smelled so good.

:)

[Heidi]

5. Tonight: pulled pork with homemade barbecue sauce and homemade

cole slaw. I'm soooooooooooo hungry, and your soup sounds _wonderful_. *Dying of hunger / send soup*

Spätzle????????? Are you Swiss?

[Fuzz]

6. Parents are from Germany

Came here in '59. Picked it up from them, although I 'kick it up a notch' with additional spices depending on what I'm making it with.

Wife's parents are from the Phillipines, trying to pick up some cooking tips from them too. My mother in law's eggrolls are awesome, her rice noodles are pretty good too. But that's about it actually. She can't cook very well :(

[Heidi]

8. My poor Swiss husband

is subjected to southern US cooking once a week, "bless his hoart." I'm a pretty good cook, but my Italian cooking pales in comparison to Call Me Wesley's. Our weekly menu: something American or Mexican, something Swiss or German, something Italian, something stir-fried, then three days of wingin' it. :hi:

[xchrom]

7. pardon me -- i'm drooling.

you're going to de-fat the stock?

what do you do?

[Fuzz]

11. Going to go do that now

Strain it first through some cheesecloth, then put it back in and do the egg white and egg shell thing to clear it up, then strain it again and then skim the top if it needs it.

[xchrom]

13. oh. you. are. good.

[hippywife]

9. Sounds good!

Gonna make taco soup later with barley in place of the beef. It's chilly and rainy here today so a good soup is definitely called for. :hi:

[Kali]

10. Mmmm lentils and smoked sausage "soup" last night with cornbread

Was going to do a pork roast tonight but we are too low on spuds for the garlic mashed to go with the roast and too far from town to just dash out for stuff, so spaghetti it will be. Might remember to do some fresh bread (pizza crust?) if the gang is lucky.

[Fuzz]

12. Nothing better than homemade soup.

Takes a long, long time, but it's worth it and I'll have enough stock to make more for at least two more days.

Was D-LISH-IS!

:D