How to make homemade soup

[miss]

OK silly questions but apart from the basic stuff like vegetables (for a veg soup) or chicken (for a chicken soup) what else do i need to include and how do i do it! Recipes ive seen on the internet are too complicated and include ingredients ive never heard of!

Thanks

[Ward-Minter]

go with the flow as simple as that.

water plus stock (veg, chick of meat)

The meat (chick or beef, lamb doesn't make good soup!)

some veg    simple as that For thinner soups more water for thicker soups add cornflour or pulses that can soak up the juice.

Also if you want a creamy soup substiute half fat single cream for stock.

[Haggisdj]

There are some good, EASY, recipes in the Carol Vorderman Detox books...

[Xollob]

There are some relatively simple recipes on this BBC site.

[Ward-Minter]

broccoli and cheese soup. great for the coming winter.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/cheesesouprecipes/r/bl30222v.htm

[butterfly76]

I throw in any leftovers normally just veg and potatoes put it in my slow cooker and add a tin of chicken broth or lentil soup loads of pepper. I leave it in there from the morning till I get home from work when I empty it into my blender....mmmm lovely thick hot soup with a big crusty roll!

[butterfly76]

Oh.. I mix the tin soup with some water

[loopey]

made 1 today - 3 onions,1 green pepper, 2 celery stalks, half cabbage,2 tin toms and 3 veg stock cubes put in large pan cover with water and cook, then liquidise - it was yum!

[darkstar]

Try Pea soup (Yellow Split Peas) I Large onion,  Stick of Celery,  Carrots   Swede   Dark Cabbage.  (amounts to taste)  Yellow split Peas    Large sheet of Bacon Ribs        Put in large pan and boil for one and half hours.   serve with crusty bread    Better 24hrs  later    (can use bacon  shank)        

[Piper-AK]

I love soups.  Basically, I just bung a load of finely chopped stuff that I think might taste good together in a pan, cook it for about 45 minutes until it's all nice and mushy and then liquidise half of it (or more if I want a non-chunky soup).  Stock cubes are my essential items, as well as herbs, to give a nice flavour.

[WendyS]

It's encouraging to see how many other people actually bother to make their own soups in an age where the trend is all for convenience food.   I was beginning to think I must be a solitary freak for indulging in this activity.  I can't think of a more inexpensive and satisfying meal and with so many winter vegetables coming into season one is spoilt for choice.  Celeriac is my latest favourite veg to include, and we also make our own  stock as well whenever we have bones to spare.  When a relative of mine was once about to throw out her Christmas turkey carcass  I scrounged it for stock and am sure I caught a look of pity in her eye.  She probably thought we were so reduced to poverty that we had to resort to gnawing bones !  Keep experimenting Miss and when you feel bolder, try pulses (lentils, beans etc).  It's almost impossible to make a bad soup and most of them are great for dieting too.