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As its getting to that time of year again i.e. getting dark early and getting colder, I've turned to eating soup to warm the old cockles.

Went 'posh' last week and splashed out on some of that Covent Garden fresh soup (ok, it was BOGOF in sains). Tucking into me Pumpkin & Pepper soup (&very nice too I might add), it got me thinking, what me fav soup is.

As a kid, tomato soup with about 6 slices of bread won easily, especially when ill.

Whats your fav flav?

Making your own soup is the way forward....dead easy to do,  boil up some ingredients of choice and bung in the blender, sorted.

  My particular favourite is watercress soup.

Heinz Soups of the world - Mexican chilli beef and bean.

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Yum yum.

Its all about heinz tomato soup

The Covent and Garden soup is lovely.  My favourite one of them is a leak and potato one.

Minestrone is a nice touch too

with grated cheese in!! YUM!

Also Lloyd Groseman 3 bean in yummy too

Oxtail

Baxters Carrot and Butterbean. A lot nicer than it sounds (fortunately!)

 :nod:   I like homemade soup but heinz tomato is  :king:

is it actually made of Ox's??  :?

Lloyd's Carrot and Corriander is lush

But I am afraid Reg gets my vote

Home made is the way forward

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

nah, goats

out of the mouths of babes

I love you hun !!!

yeah but surley an Oxs tail is not very substantial?  :?  its like a long stringy thing??- it must take alot of tails too make soup!

Goose soup, lovely with a nice bit of bread & butter

 Oxtail....really cow tail, is quite chunky, you can cook and eat as meat.

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My Nan used to serve that with leeks and carrots and it was lush Reg

I bet, I can almost smell it.   Unfortunately, increasingly, we don't sem to have the time for proper cooking...its just so much easier to bung something or other in the microwave.

   Great shame, I'm as guilty as anyone....

I know

She used to braise it and the gravy that it cooked in was pure nectar mate.

That with old fashioned mashed potato with lots of butter and pepper

Oh fuck I am hungry now !

whats new fashioned Mash Potatoe like then?

seriously?

Sorry, figure of speech really, just have not had mashed potato for years

sweet potato, pumpkin or tomato, or leek and potato, or parsnip or carrot  :?

 :shock:

Cos of your illness?

Go and make some now..fuck it

Broccoli and stilton always a winner.

I guess i might try getting in some more covent garden stuff if its that good? I have the Pumpkin & Pepper in the shop at the mo as its bogof at coop as well!

yes mate unfortunately

Home made Italian Meatball Soup. I'm spoiled, me 8)

I'm partial to some broccoli & cheddar too.

Homemade Broccoli soup with pine nuts and goats cheese - that's a real winner even though I don't like goats cheese that much

I'm with Dave on this. Heinz tomato with fresh crusty white bread and butter.

Ooohh, lah-de-dah.

A bit nasty ....

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Is it wrong to quite like Smash :D

I can't claim the credit - it's one of Gordon Ramsay's - but in the time it would take me to make it, you'd could still have my alloys away :wink:

Your boat's got alloys. Cool  :D

Plus go faster stripes and furry dice :D

Has to be Covent Gardens Carrot and Coriander or Heinz Thai Pumpkin (not sure if they sell it over here yet as not seen it but had it in Oz)

Nothing beats home made hot and sour soup though.

Turbo's Tomato Soup. It was in the program once.

Gotta say Oxtail and Tomato are among the best!

I also had Heinz Lamb and Root Vegetable not long ago which was pretty good, and as people have said the Covent Garden ones are good too

I use to love it, then discovered using salt, pepper, potatoes, butter and milk and natural home made is lush

Of course.

But if you are hung over Cheesy Smash and Beans is ready in the boil of a kettle  :mrgreen:

One word, 5 syllables.

Mulligatawny.

lovely stuff.

As a kid i loved ox tail, but i dont know why, coz even thugh ive not ate it for years i still remember what it tastes like and if my memory serves correct, it was rank.

But for me its gotta be my mums leek and potato soup.

Failing that, Heinz Tomato soup

Chicken noodle soup is my number 1.

Although I am partial to lentil............

barszcz is another ace one (beetroot soup) you can get it from tescos in the foreign foods section.

I love that! its pronounced borsch isnt it despite the bizarre spelling?  Its the one they put sour cream on top!  AMAZING!

thats the english way of saying/prunouncing its mainly called barszcz in poland, but some call it borszcz in some areas.

Its Borsch in Russia too.

I hate soup, apart from ot and sour chinese soups (with the meat and egg in and stuff)

This is what its all about. Can't get enough of the stuff.

Heinz do a reasonable version, but you can get it good from most brands.

Also love making my own, with butternut squash a favourite.

I feel Ive learnt alot from this thread

Tomato and Vegetable.

Is that what they call you and tans?  :wink:

Leek and Potato with hot homemade bread.

Which is which though ?

Bagsy being the veg.
Size of my piece is like a marrow  :wink:

I'm tomato because ... ????????

you're a fruit.

hoho!

oh and i second the carrot and butterbean motion. lush.

i quite like the heinz big soups, minted lamb hotpot rules

Bachelors Cup a Soup and cheese and biscuits after work every day  :mrgreen:

Nahh sorry either Heinz' Tomato or Chicken soup don't think they can be beaten for us fussy eaters

It used to be Heinz Tomato Soup but i've now gone off of that a bit and i'm eating a lot of Heinz Vegetable Soup lately. But i only have the tins that are big enough for one person (if you know which ones i mean) not the big tins.

i went out and bought 5 tins of soup today. 5 for £2 heinz soups in tesco.

I find it hard to comprehend that people make homemade soup.You can buy it for next to nothing why bother making it? Its not even as if it fills you up.

Making soups something I've never tried. I might try and come up with my own death soup.

My mum makes soup and in the winter it's lovely to warm you up.

Has to be served with hot buttered bread though.

I think the original idea of soup was to avoid throwing away left overs, but I do agree it seems to be a lot of effort involved

When they bring back rationing, we'll all be doing it

There's no law against it. Plus you can make a huge batch and freeze it. Yes its effort, but often worth it.

I don't care as it my missus who puts the effort in, the only effort involved from me is lifting spoon from bowl to mouth  :wink: Oh, and clearing up the debris  :(

i'm having minestrone right now with the crust off a loaf. yummy.

Oxtail me thinks.

It's a pain to make but the taste is much better and you know what's gone into it - I only do it for a special occasion

I just remembered, chicken soup is fucking lush aswell  8)