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Old 05-06-2008, 02:43 PM
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One a week we had that when I was a kid. My dad 's mom added milk. My mom added a chopped green pepper or celery. I throw some boullin in and the kids like to sprinkle cheese on top........The name Macaroni Soup :D :D
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Funny funny... That's what we call Hungarian Goulash!

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Old 05-07-2008, 12:10 PM
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Mom didn't use stewed tomatoes, but regular ones, and they were usually ones she'd canned herself from our garden.
She added corn.

It was called Homemade Soup!

sometimes the meat wasn't ground beef, but little pieces of beef she got on sale or leftover from a roast or something! LOL!

Isn't it funny how it's all basically the same thing (minus this, add a little of that) with a different name?!

We make something like it, too...I usally add tomato juice or V8 and some carrots...sometimes a little rice or barley...sometimes some cabbage...just whatever is on-hand at the time....or whatever we had for supper the day before.... :wink:
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I absolutely adore V8 juice in soup. It just tastes better to me. I have never, ever made this recipe--isn't that tragic?? My mother was NOT a good cook but on those cold, winter days, this was the best thing around.
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Old 05-09-2008, 02:05 PM
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Around here they use to call it Poverty Meal because the ingredients and recipe were given out at local food pantries. When I was a Jaycee, we would deliver packages to shut ins, or older folks with no transpertation from the local food pantry once a week. When we had this in their bundles a couple ladies would giggle and then there were a few that got , well, lets say a bit hot under the collar and offended. But that was ok...so long as they got the fixins for a hot meal, a little pride saving was cool in my book LOL.

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