/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Nigga I hope you brown the meat first.

>>4906660
I do not. Cubed beef for stew does not need to be browned for soup, unless the recipe calls for it before hand. My recipe does not. and when the soup is done, the beef is cooked all the way through.

>>4906675

>>4906675
Yeah well, boiling chicken for 6 hours will also cook the meat all through...

>>4906685
hasn't killed or made me sick. Been eating this recipe for years now.

>>4906691
yes, but this thread is about soup. DO IT FAGGOT!!!!

>>4906692
TASTE NERVES MATE, DO YOU HAVE IT

>>4906656
No onions or bay thyme etc?

Potatoes come in cans?

>>4906656
> tfw, frozen veggies > canned veggies

>>4906697
add those in at your own discretion. I usually drop in a dry can of peas and half a onion chopped with a shitload of pepper to make it hotter 'n hell.

>>4906696
yes, and the soup tastes fine. You would believe me if you cooked it.

>>4906699
Just saw it
>you wot m8

>>4906699
> welcome to 1960

>>4906703
go with canned. I always have.
>>4906699
yes, and make sure you get the sliced ones unless you want to do it all yourself.

>>4906711
canned have way too much salt, and the texture never fully recover from the canning process, so they're always a bit mushy.

>>4906717
never bothered me none. It's just a simple soup I've never really dressed up. probably would if i had guests.

>>4906723
WHERES THE FUCKIN' SOUP!!!!!!

>>4906711
Go with canned?
As an Irishman, stop.
Just stop.

>>4906734
Well, then Mr. McFaggot, whats your recipe for soup?

>>4906742
Not debating your soup recipe, it sounds great and its nice of you to share it, but canned potatoes is a crime.

>>4906761
i make it in the morning when all i want to do is put the soup on, go to school, and have lunch or dinner ready when i come home.

If you're going to use everything canned, you might as well just buy canned soup.

>>4906817
essentially this.
>>4906765
Come on OP, you're allready slowcooking wich is top tier, it's not THAT hard to cut fresh ingredience and waaaaay tastier/healthier.

>>4906831
Alright, I'll do it and post results when I eat my way through my latest batch of soup. But for the meantime, /ck/ lets have some more soup recipes!

Cheddar Broccoli Soup

2 Broccoli crowns, chopped into bite-size pieces
16 oz. Sharp cheddar.
1 Yellow onion, chopped
3 Cloves garlic, minced
2 Carrots, grated.
4 C. Chicken stock
4 C. Heavy cream
1/2 C. Flour
1/2 C. + 2 tbsp. Butter, divided.

Saute the onion and garlic in 2 tbsp. butter. Set aside.
Combine flour and 1/2 c. butter in pot over med-low heat. This is your roux. Stir continuously about 5-10 minutes, until med light brown.
Add heavy cream and chicken stock until heated.
Add broccoli, carrots, onion, garlic. Simmer for 30 minutes.
Add cheddar, stir until melted.

Spice it up how you want. I use:
Lots of pepper
Sage
Tony's (Cajun seasoning)
Cayenne pepper
Salt

I made this last night. It's quite a lot of soup and freezes wonderfully.

>>4908191
Damn that looks good, and if a T-Rex likes it, then how bad could it be?

Oh hey, a soup thread - perfect. Currently boiling:

1 leek (light green part)
1 onion
1 red onion
3 potatoes
1½ l beef broth

Bonus ingredients below. Will they work? I dunno:
1 sweet potato
2 dl red lentils

I made "taco soup" yesterday:

12 roma tomatoes, diced with skin
1 quart of home canned tomatoes
3.5lbs of sirloin tip steak (run through a 'universal food chopper') browned in a skillet with salt, black pepper, and garlic powder (a small portion is scorched for a smokey flavor)
4 cans (21-22 oz cans) of Bush's beans (2 cans of Black Bean Fiesta & 2 cans Smokehouse Tradition)
4 large red onions chopped and diced
4 large green bell peppers chopped and diced
1 bottle garlic powder (I was out of fresh garlic!)
16oz of white button mushrooms slice and diced
8 ears of homegrown purple Peruvian corn cut off the cob
2 teaspoons of black pepper
2 packets of "taco seasoning"
3 teaspoons of chili powder

I think that's all the ingredients. I put it all into a large stainless steel stock brought it to a boil and cooked it until the onions were just starting to turn clear. At first there's not enough water in it, but after a while and some stirring the vegetables add their own water to it and things turn to a stew/thick soup.

I eat a bowl of this, garnished with shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese and taco-flavor Doritos. Using ground up steak is a lot better than buying hamburger made from who-knows-how-old meat that usually smells off. I'll be eating off this for a couple days and anything left will get canned or frozen for later. This stuff is godly. It also kills pastries, pirogi, and a few other things really well. I'll probably bake some bread later on for dipping it too. So, leftovers never get boring.

>pic from last night's dinner

>>4908385
Also, I made this soup a few weeks ago (Oct 6th). 22 quarts of spicy vegetable soup containing a good bit of my own vegetables from my garden.

>>4908385
Sounds like a more loose chilli, which works I suppose
>taco seasoning
You know that stuff is basically just cumin, right?

>>4908388
I'm getting some kind of soup envy here

>>4908388
Aaaaw Yeah boy! Give me one of those jars please!

>>4908191
I making this for dinner right now, no shit. Going to add some potatoes as filler and a few Anaheims I have sitting around to give it a pepperjack vibe. Aww yeh son.

>>4908392
>You know that stuff is basically just cumin, right?

I didn't have enough money to get all the spices needed to make what was in the taco seasoning packet. Aside from my own veggies the entire thing cost just over $43.

>Sounds like a more loose chilli, which works I suppose

The original recipe was soupier and called for powdered Ranch dressing. I was like "screw that" and instead made it heartier minus the Ranch.

>>4908412
lol Here's some I made back in March, 42 quarts then. It is a bit of a different recipe and less spicy.

http://www.knorr.co.uk/recipes/detail/8334/1/beef-and-guinness-stew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-wRV-vsHg


I make this when I want something warm and filling. I usually end up using Murphy's or Ohara's because I never have and Guinness around.

>>4906656
Shit nigga why don't you just buy canned soup?

>>4908425
this some kind of recipe thread?

i posted this last week in honor of our glorious independence day. maybe you guys like it.

8 dry kaiser rolls
6 eggs
parsley
~300 g cheese
~100 ml milk
1 onion
little bit flour
oil
salt
pepper

cut the rolls into small cubes. cut the onion
and fry in pan. cut the parsley. mix rolls with onions
and parsley and grated cheese. mix the eggs with milk
salt and pepper. now pour the milk and egg mixture
over the rolls and mix it cautiously. let rest for
about 15 minutes.

heat oil in frying pan. now form with your hands balls
from the mixture and put in hot pan. press them to
flat disks with a flipper. fry them from both sides.

serve with salad.

>>4908435
normally canned soups aren't as good as soup you make from canned ingredients simply because of the meat source. It is a lot better to use fresh ingredients of course.

>>4908436
This is a soup thread.

>>4908436
I actually saved this, thanks.

>>4906675
>unless the recipe calls for it
are you serious? I bet you add hot liquid to a roux if the recipe calls for it as well... Sometimes there are universally better ways of doing things (in case anybody hasn't gotten the memo, you always brown the meat, you always add cold liquid to a roux)

>>4908508
Recipes call for certain methods because those methods do something different that normal. It may be a slight change in texture, mouth feel, or flavor. Not following the recipe ensures a dish that isn't exactly the same as the author of the recipe intended.

As for browning the meat prior to putting it into a soup/stew, this changes the flavor of the meat drastically and changes the texture of the vegetables involved.

>>4908423
Shop for spices at an ethnic market, and grind them yourself. Way better value than those little glass jars from the supermarket, and unground keep their flavour much longer. Plus you can toast them before grinding for extra depth. Also, I recommend starting a herb garden. It means you always have them around, you save money, and its a nice hobby.

>>4908594
No such places exist where I live. I order online or grow my own spices/herbs. I was just out of a few things.

I also have several gardens.

>>4908423
got a recipe, friend?

>>4909818
Sorry, I mostly wing-it with whatever I have on hand. Basically, lots of vegetables, make sure there's onions, potatoes, carrots, and garlic. The only recipe I have is in >>4908385 and that's just from recent memory, not actually written down. The stuff in >>4908423 is intended to be served with egg noodles and home-canned beef.

>>4908436
Soup, damnit

>>4908440
yea, but I'm lazy and can find what i need is a can. Albeit, I will chop some veggies this weekend to make some fresh soup.

>>4908508
i am not that fancy, my good sir. And when you stew the beef for 6 hours it gets cooked thoroughly and is nice and tender. >>4908518
this guy has a point.
>>4908385
This looks fucking delicious.
>>4908388
the soup looks great, however, I am cooking for an audience of one. 22quarts is just way to much soup for me. >>4908423 and $43 to make soup, son I spend less than $20 for my meat and canned veggies
>>4908435
Because I can cook and it costs more to get the same volume of soup I can make for next to nothing. Besides, homemade soup just tastes better. (it's the same conundrum of why toast tastes better when you cut it. you don't know why, it just does)

>>4910468
>22quarts is just way to much soup for me.

That is why I can it. It'll last a few years that way. I have enough soup canned right now to eat 3 meals of soup each day for a few months. I tend to stretch things out. who want's to eat that much soup in a row? lol

>and $43 to make soup, son I spend less than $20 for my meat and canned veggies

The meat was a little over $11. I could have bought smelly brown hamburger for $2.49 and got the same amount of meat. But, it wouldn't have been as tasty and it would include the random bone chip which I can no longer abide. Fresh vegetables always cost a bit more than canned veggies. Though it is dependent on season too. I just wish I had more homegrown vegetables this year. Hopefully, the tomatoes I have now will make it to maturity and ripen.

>>4910468
>my good sir

>>4910948
well, considered me corrected