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Potato and leek soup. Making it it tonight. Can’t wait!!

Roasted butternut squash with carrot and red pepper, needs a good kick of ginger and black pepper.

Chicken soups. Especially the never plain ones with few ingredients.

Miso or Thai Tom Yum(?)

alphabet soup

Split pea with a mountain of crackers

Potato stew! Potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, no blending or milk

Carrot Orange soup - hear me out, this is awesome. Coarse chop onions and sauté in a soup pot. Add a bunch of chopped carrots and cook with some veg stock. When tender use stick blender to make smooth and add orange juice, salt and pepper to taste. My wife makes this whenever someone is sick or has a surgery and feels weak. It is a magic soup!

Red chilli and bean soup!

• 1 red capsicum
• 1 medium onion
• 1 celery stick
• 1 medium carrot
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• 400g can tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 700ml vegetable stock
• 1 can mixed beans
• 25g kale leaves, shredded

1. Chop capsicum, celery, carrot, and onion. Crush garlic.
2. Heat oil in large pan, add chopped vegetables, saute for 5 minutes but don't colour the vegetables.
3. Add chilli powder and cook for a minute.
4. Blend the tomatoes and add to the pan with puree and stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Drain and rinse the beans, stir into the soup with kale. Cook for a few minutes until the beans have warmed and the kale wilted.
6. Season with pepper and serve.

Love this soup! Usually swap the kale for spinach though.

Chicken soup and lentil soup. Especially lentil soup, I can't recommend it enough. Look up merdzimek chorbasy or turkish version of it (dunno how to spell it correctly but the name is same).

Sometimes I turn leftover rice into avgolemono, a delicious lemony Greek soup.

All my fellow mushroom soup lovers should make some Hungarian mushroom soup sometime. So good.

My favorite soups that I occasionally make are duck pho, lobster bisque (it has been way too long since I've made this one, but it's a lot of work), fish chowder, French onion soup, and Hungarian mushroom soup.

Do you happen to have a link to the Mushroom soup recipe you made or something similar?

Khao soi

I make this cream-based Cajun chicken noodle soup. It’s bonkers good with a slight afterburn counterbalanced by the cream. 11/10 amazing.

When I’d make it for the restaurant, we’d go through half of it just from the staff performing “quality control checks.”

Ok so I keep telling people if nothing else good comes from this shit year, 2025 was the year I learned to appreciate the value of a good home made soup. So, I am so excited to see this post!

I use vegetable better than bullion base, chop a big club of ginger in a food processor then add it to the base, add in 2-3 jalapenos, key lime juice, and Sriracha

While all that's simmering, I sautee red onion, broccoli, and shrimp, then add all that to the soup and let it simmer together for a while. Sometimes I'll add tofu. Usually eat that for a few days. It's awesome especially when you're sick.

A potato and beef soup known locally as "Slavic soup" (sopa eslava). Likely brought to my chunk of South America by Polish immigrants, and then adapted to local tastes.

Other soups I really enjoy are

• chicken, leeks, carrots, rice
• ramen of all types
• beet soup
• lovage soup

Mushroom soup is definitely my favorite 🍄

My wife's chicken ginger soup. Really comforting.

Lazy tomato soup. Serves me (1)

Half a can of canned tomatoes (200g)

A red onion, diced

Garlic to taste

Your choice of protein (I loooooove chickpeas)

Add broth to desired thickness

Put everything in pot, simmer for 7-10 minutes and season to taste. Enjoy

I'm making ham and bean soup now. It's super simple - toss a ham hock and chopped ham into a slow cooker with 8C of chicken broth, add a finely chopped onion and a couple cloves of minced garlic, toss in a can of petite diced tomatoes, add a bag of 15 bean mix (soaked overnight), cook on low for 8-12 hours. Season with chili powder, salt, and pepper. Squeeze in the juice from a lemon for brightness. Tastes best after resting for a night in the fridge.

• miso soup

• beer cheese soup

• sopa azteca

• pozole verde

• carrot-ginger gazpacho

• watermelon gaspacho

• red lentil soup

My regular rotation are:

• tomato bisque
• barley and lentil stew
• broccoli cheddar soup
• ministrone
• black beans (cuban style but vegetarian)
• carrot-ginger soup
• ramyun or ramen
• 5 bean chili

I enjoy but seldom cook a couple of indian soups: rasam and sambar.

Dutch erwtensoep with rookworst.

Pumpkin soup, onion soup and of course, rice soup which I also named it poors soup, its only rice + leftovers in the fridge.

Cream of mushroom soup is top tier along with pumpkin/squash soup, dill pickle soup, lentil, and lemon rice.

Italian style chickpea or lentil soup is always great, you can make them almost the same too (just swap out the legumes)

Ham noodle soup with those extra thick home style noodles and the ham cooked so long it's stringy

Šaltibarščiai, or cold pink soup :3.. which is a popular dish where I live during summer

My absolute favorite is potato soup, but made like it was a fully loaded baked potato so it has sour cream, chives, cheese and bacon in it.

Not too big on soup, but I think egg drop soup is great.

Split pea with ham hocks
Chickpea curry
Chicken lemon lentil
Chili

I am saving this post for the recipes...

Oooh, it’s been so long since I had mushroom soup. Thanks for the idea!

One of my favorites is Goulash.

I made french onion soup yesterday. The house still smells like caramelized onions. I have leftovers, but I ran out of cheese and somebody threw away the rest of the stale baguette.

Seaweed soup with beef.

Chicken 'n dumplings

I have a green chili stew recipe I love; one of my favorite foods.

• 2-3 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 or 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp cumin
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ½ tsp oregano
• 2 to 3 lbs red or gold potatoes, cut into small chunks
• 3 large cans chopped green chilies
• 5 to 6 cups chicken broth
• 2 to 4 tsp canned chopped jalapeños
• 1 ½ to 2 lbs pork loin, cut into small chunks
• 1 to 1 ½ tsp salt, to taste
• Sour cream

Heat the oil in a 2 quart saucepan, add the onion and garlic, and cook, covered, over low heat for about 5 minutes so that the onion can wilt.

Uncover the pan, raise the heat to medium, and stir in the cumin and pepper.

Stir for 2 or 3 minutes, or until the onions start to show signs of browning, then add the chicken broth, oregano, salt, green chilies, jalapeños, & pork. Add potatoes until pot is full.

Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for at least 1 hour.

Remove from heat and let settle for 5 to 10 min.

Serve hot, add sour cream to servings per taste. Garnish with cilantro, avocado, tortilla chips, cracklins, etc.

cream of mushroom and seafood chowder are so delicious. also really like kale soup.

I haven’t yet. Do you fry the bacon then use the fat to sweat the leeks?