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elarbeeRussians eat soup with every lunch (or it might be more correct to say dinner in this context), but Americans have it as a meal. I've never even heard Americans delineate everyday meals into the three courses that Russians do.
Meanwhile, Andy doesn't usually like soup, but I do, so we compromise and I make it infrequently. Usually, he eats it on the first day and I have it for lunch for a few days thereafter - I tend to make a big pot.
Here are some soups I've been liking to make lately:
Avgolemono
Creamed spinach soups of various kinds (or kale, too)
Ochazuke
Easy borscht: store-bought borscht soup base plus diced beets, cucumber, hardboiled eggs and sour cream (OK, it's actually more like холодник)
And maybe some other ones I'm forgetting. Maybe my brain turned to soup, too.
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star_invention for reminding me of my other favorites:
Miso (with tofu and rice or noodles to make a full meal)
Chicken soup with matzoh balls
Creamy tomato
Various kinds of mushroom
Meanwhile, Andy doesn't usually like soup, but I do, so we compromise and I make it infrequently. Usually, he eats it on the first day and I have it for lunch for a few days thereafter - I tend to make a big pot.
Here are some soups I've been liking to make lately:
Avgolemono
Creamed spinach soups of various kinds (or kale, too)
Ochazuke
Easy borscht: store-bought borscht soup base plus diced beets, cucumber, hardboiled eggs and sour cream (OK, it's actually more like холодник)
And maybe some other ones I'm forgetting. Maybe my brain turned to soup, too.
ETA: Thank you
star_invention for reminding me of my other favorites:Miso (with tofu and rice or noodles to make a full meal)
Chicken soup with matzoh balls
Creamy tomato
Various kinds of mushroom
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Date: 2011-09-13 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-13 12:33 am (UTC)К слову - огурцы и яйца в борще? Уже на рассольник смахивает.
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Date: 2011-09-13 12:32 am (UTC)Though I do like the idea of 3 course meals that I learned of in France (not Russia).
And yeah, I hate soup. I must not be Russian.
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:36 am (UTC)то же самое в учреждениях типа детский лагерь, больница и т.п.
меня всегда хватало только на суп и котлету %)
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:05 am (UTC)во всяких лагерях-санаториях еда обычно оставляла желать :-/
в америке, кстати, супы часто подаются в cups, толком не наешься. а маминого супа или борща мне всегда хватало в качестве полноценного обеда.
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:34 am (UTC)I was never a fan of soups and stopped eating them when I was a teenager. The only soup I like is clam chowder but I hardly ever eat it.
Mark is a big fan of avgolemono. He always orders it at La Mediterranee.
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:59 am (UTC)We've been making a ton of gazpacho lately - there are absolutely amazing dry farmed tomatoes at the farmers market this time a year, and I have a super easy recipe for making it. I seriously make 2 large batches of it a week.
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:13 pm (UTC)Peppers are a garnish, we never use them. :)
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Date: 2011-09-13 03:54 am (UTC)I still remember being traumatized as a kid in first grade when my teacher would insist that every kid had to finish all three courses of their lunch before leaving the table. I never had enough appetite to eat that much food. I would finish my soup and would sit there crying into my plate of so-called meat while she threatened not to let my whole table go to recess if I didn't finish. My mom had to come in and yell at her. Ever since then I have an adverse reaction to the words "pervoye i vtoroye".
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:07 am (UTC)The first three grades the group procession to the cafeteria and the daily yellow milk made me hate food, so by the time I transferred to a new school in the fourth grade and it was up to each student to visit the cafeteria, I just didn't. My mom gave me a ruble for lunch each week and I just didn't eat. But that's another story.
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:45 pm (UTC)I didn't eat much as a kid either. I was picky and never had a big appetite. My mom didn't pester me much about it though. I was scrawny until my early-mid 20s. We came here right when I started the 4th grade. I went to a Jewish school for a while, and my packed lunches had to be kosher, so most days I would have a plain cheese sandwich or a plain turkey sandwich (with just the meat and bread), a piece of fruit, and some snack. I ate that way all through high school too and at some point I stopped eating breakfast because I couldn't stomach it too early in the mornings.
I don't cook a lot of russian soups. I like borscht, but Lars hates anything with beets so if I make a pot (and I always end up with a big pot) then I have to eat it all week. I prefer Italian Wedding soup to russian soup with frikodelki. I like chicken soup, but I make it with a bunch of veggies, not just chicken and noodles like my mom's. I prefer minestrone to my mom's bean soup recipe (again, more veggies!). And my favorites are creamy soups like cream of broccoli or clam chowder.
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:51 pm (UTC)I totally didn't eat much as a kid, I think I survived on grechka and potatoes.
And speaking of frikadelki - Two-ball soup! But yes, creamy soups are the best - Andy complains about the fat content so I use skim milk and a bit of corn starch, the consistency is just as good.
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:44 am (UTC)Моя одноклассница когда-то съездила в старшей школе на год всего по обмену в Штаты, и набрала 10 кг! Это тогда, когда средний вес девочки ее возраста был 40-45 кг, и при том что во втором полугодии она спохватилась и начала регулярно ходить в бассейн.
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-13 05:51 am (UTC)А одноклассница ездила в США из Украины в середине 90-х. Понятно, какое там тогда было разнообразие)
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:10 am (UTC)Borsch
Italian Wedding Soup
Minestrone
Fish soup (not to be confused with 'uha' - bleh)
Turkey veggie soup
Matzoh ball soup with chichen/turkey
Misso soup
Rassol'nik
I think there are a couple more, but I don't remember now.
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:09 am (UTC)Unfortunately, I can't consume many typical American soups because I can't even stand the smell of celery, and it's a frequent ingredient in broths.
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Date: 2011-09-13 04:56 pm (UTC)http://www.ruscuisine.com/recipes/soups/n--85
it looks like a lot of ingredients, but i had a spice mix (cajun-style) that contained pretty much that exact mix of all of the herbs
also, i hated the idea of using ketchup, so just used tomato paste instead
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:04 pm (UTC)the dried cherries, however, are -- they are such an amazing combination with the lamb
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