Old People Love Soup
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I make a vegetarian soup about once a week or every other week. For regular soup I use the food processor to chop carrots, onions and celery to make the soup base, then add broth and main ingredients. Another fave is miso soup, which is incredibly easy…I usually add scallions, mushrooms, tofu, maybe Japanese radish.
But I also liked soup before I got “old.”
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I’ve made soup from a dried mix. The Hurst “ham bean” one.
No bueno. The big beans stay hard and the small beans turn to mush. I’ll have to try the Bobs version. His stuff is generally solid
@Steve-Miller said in Old People Love Soup:
I’ve made soup from a dried mix. The Hurst “ham bean” one.
No bueno. The big beans stay hard and the small beans turn to mush. I’ll have to try the Bobs version. His stuff is generally solid
We made the 13 bean chili recipe that's on another Bob's soup mix. Came out great.
Just a note...the Bob's soup mixes don't have anything but real ingredients. No salt or seasonings, so you can really make them your own.
Some of Bob's recipes for the 13 bean mix:
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There is a localish company called Mitchell’s soup that we really love for bean soups. Their split pea soup is heavenly - it doesn’t get thick and gloppy like some do. They tell you to add ham or bacon but honestly next time I won’t bother. I usually fry an onion in the bottom of the pot as well. I’ve never been a huge soup fan but over the last couple years have gotten more into it. I turn 50 this year so perhaps I’m part of the old people phenomenon?
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Did anyone else grow up eating Riviera brand minestrone soup? My favorite growing up but none of my friends would eat it. Company went out of business years ago but I see someone has bought the name and it looks the same in the picture on the label. I’ll have to hunt it down.
It’s “San Francisco style” - nothing like regular minestrone. Very dark gravy, very thick. Very distinctive flavor and aroma. Copycat recipes make it look like a real project to scratch make but it might be worth it.
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No canned soups when I was growing up. We did occasionally have Mrs Grass or Lipton chicken noodle soup mixes.. I thought the Mrs Grass was better than the Lipton.
Mom made borscht (hot and cold) and a barley/kidney/pickle soup. And even though I grew up in the middle of a bunch of Italians, never had homemade minestrone until I was in my 30s.
Here's someone's attempt at duplicating your Riviera minestrone. Didn't look too hard to make.
https://www.quarterwaterfoods.com/2020/03/riviera-minestrone-2020-coronavirus.html
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How do you heat miso without killing the bacteria that is supposed to be in it?@CHAS said in Old People Love Soup:
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How do you heat miso without killing the bacteria that is supposed to be in it?You don’t really deliberately heat it up. But you have to mix it into a hot liquid to create a broth. We add miso at the end of the cooking time. Take some hot liquid from the soup, put it in a separate bowl or Pyrex cup, dissolve the miso in that, stirring with a spoon. And then add to the bulk of soup. Or heat up a cup or two of water, dissolve miso in that, then add to the soup.
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Not soup but I can tell you by observation old people love to play games. Not only shuffleboard but also about ten other games. I didn't know how one of them was played until a few weeks ago. I don't know any of the rules. It's like watching children at recess. I say good for them! Not my thing.
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Not soup but I can tell you by observation old people love to play games. Not only shuffleboard but also about ten other games. I didn't know how one of them was played until a few weeks ago. I don't know any of the rules. It's like watching children at recess. I say good for them! Not my thing.
@Daniel I admit that games can be fun and contribute to cognitive health and social connection, but I think robust activities like travel, attending concerts or museums, practicing an instrument, vigorous exercise, auditing a college-level course, etc., can more strongly enhance well-being.
