Discovering soup
 

Soup has traditionally been Mus-go; aka clean-out-the-refrigerator. Some more successful then others. Since discovering "UMAMI", success has been more consistent. So tonight I make a version. The second night of roasted chicken from the market. I love the flavor of roasting-the carmelized juices. Pulled off the lg meat pieces for hubby and simmered the rest. Then removed skin and bones. Added the stump of celery, green onion that were past prime and mus-go-mushrooms. Then the seasoning: saurkraut, siracha, rosemary, salt, garlic. Finally added pasta for a version of chicken and noodle soup. Very good. Glad to have leftovers.

The umami were: carmelized skin and juices, celery, mushrooms, saurkraut.

That sounds like a good soup. It gives me ideas. Thanks for sharing.

I could eat soup all year. There are so many recipes to try that I never get tired.

Think it's time for beans. Maybe white bean chili. Chicken, cilantro, onion, cabbage, green chilis. Hm.

My favourite is Ox Tail soup....
Ox Tail simmered with shredded cabbage, carrots, onions, diced potato, maybe a bit of rutabaga and pot barley. I make a big batch and can it.

A funny story about Ox Tail...I went to my regular Saturday farmers market and asked the butcher for ox tail. It was really busy and really loud, so we were just about shouting to each other. I asked the price and he told me, I was surprised and shouted back..."That's a lot of money for a piece of tail, isn't it?", just as it suddenly got really quiet for a moment. The butcher looked at me with a straight face and said, "I wouldn't know, ma'am." and a bunch of people in the crowd burst out laughing.

I've discovered pressure canning and now always have French Onion, Chicken Noodle (without the noodle, yet) and Ox Tail soup on my shelf along with beef stew and chili, sloppy joe and spaghetti sauce etc. Makes meal prep so easy!

Watson

I used to do a lot of soups, now that hubby is keto and I am low carb we do less of them. Not that there aren't plenty of soups out there that fit our profile. I often eat a can of soup (usually Progresso) for lunch, even a full can isn't that big a hit calorie or carb counting -- depending on variety.

Today or tomorrow I'm going to try something different, we used to make Bean Soup from the dried multi bean packages and a ham bone. The way the hubby liked it was really Ham Soup with Beans more than Bean Soup with Ham. We bought two spiral hams on sale after Christmas, one is still on the freezer but this one we portioned out to slices, the unsliced part which will be chopped up for the soup and the bone. I got low salt chicken broth (it was a salty ham!), frozen green beans, onions, celery, a can of chopped tomatoes, and husband will "allow" one can of beans (he chose great northern). Should be great!

We always boil a whole ham for about 45 minutes before baking. It eliminates some salt.

Iceblossom, my DH is also keto. Look for black soy beans--canned or dry. They are very keto friendly and can be substituted in any recipe but are especially good in recipes calling for pinto or black beans. You will probably have much better luck at finding them in the US. Here, I can only find them at the health food store and at $3 a can, they are not a kitchen staple.

If you do find them at a popular grocery store, please let me know. The DD goes to Michigan occasionally and doesn't mind shopping for me.

Soup is good food! Is the low carb version of ham soup as satisfying to me as the multi-bean, not so much but it is tasty. Personally I rather like the Veg-all style or frozen mixed veges including carrots, corn and peas but that's too much for the hubby.

Gingerk, maybe I should have my husband research frozen peeled edamame (soy beans by any other name). He likes to research things. I'll keep my eyes out but I'm not really seeing the black soybeans for less than $3-4 can.

Choices for soup are really different. Is it d/t location, ethnicity, dietary restrictions, or what?

And ham: to get salty ham, I've had to order cured Virginia ham. In California, ham was never salty. How interesting.