Question of the Day, Friday, September 11

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Good morning! 
 And Happy Friday! 


When the seasons change, so does my way of cooking. During the summer, we do a lot of grilling and we'll eat a lot of fresh salads and fresh vegetables. Come fall, though, and I will start making a lot of soups and stews. I'll use the pressure cooker more often and I'll use the crock pots more often. There's nothing like coming home to a big crock pot of soup or stew and then all I need do is defrost a few yeast rolls from the freezer or bake up a quick cornbread or a pan of biscuits. Or when I have cooked chicken on hand, I'll make a nice chicken pie with a cheesy crust on top.

What's your favorite soup for fall or winter? When you think of all the cold and snow, what do you want for dinner?

With us, it's usually a pot of chili or beef stew with herbed dumplings. Or a crock pot full of chicken corn soup. Or that chicken pie I mentioned above.
 

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- Chicken Noodle (Though I can be picky about the brand)
 

- Miso or Ramen

- A type of Dutch soup, made with Dutch noodles, broth, tomatoes, celery, carrots etc that I actually make all myself. Woo!

- My mom's Chili. Which I really need to eventually learn to do myself!

- Any sort of really good, herby-tomato-spicy soup. 






 
 

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I don't eat much soup but my favorite is won ton from a local Chinese place. There's no such thing as fall here and no real winter to speak of. It goes from full summer to a few weeks of colder weather at night and in the mornings in January/.February but we rarely have to wear anything more than a light jacket and since it generally warms up in the afternoons, the kids usually wear shorts to school all year.

 I heard that it snowed once not far from here back in 1973 but the flakes melted before they hit the ground so I guess that doesn't count. 

I like to make pot roast and chili in the crock pot but I do that at any time of year.
 
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One of my favorites is day after Thanksgiving soup.  Turkey carcass, lots of veggies, some pasta or barley.  I do it in the crock pot.  

Which reminds me I think I need a larger one 
  

I've been saving up all this season's fresh corn cobs in the freezer.  I think I have 8-10 of them now.  Some kind of corn chowder is upcoming.
 

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Ooh corn chowder, that's a good idea. My fresh veggie box this month had 5 or 6 corn cobs and I haven't figured out what to do with them.
 

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Ooh corn chowder, that's a good idea. My fresh veggie box this month had 5 or 6 corn cobs and I haven't figured out what to do with them.
Yea, we get a fresh box too and for weeks there's been corn in it. I didn't think about freezing the cobs until about a month ago.  I think we still have at least a couple of weeks for corn so by then it should make quite the big pot of, well something.
 

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My favorite is beef stew.  I have never been a huge soup fan, I used to try to become one.  I have noticed that many people that I know that don't seem to have issues with controlling their weight are huge soup fans.  I tried to become one because of that but I didn't succeed.
 

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Yea, we get a fresh box too and for weeks there's been corn in it. I didn't think about freezing the cobs until about a month ago.  I think we still have at least a couple of weeks for corn so by then it should make quite the big pot of, well something.
We only get it once a month and I look forward to that day every month. We just got it on Tuesday.
 

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Winter and colder weather bring out my crockpot. I cook a lot of stews and soups and other comfort foods in it during the winter months.

One of my favorite winter soups is what I call Camp Soup. I also love chili, spaghetti and potato soup in the winter, all of which are cooked in the crockpot.
 

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Yea, we get a fresh box too and for weeks there's been corn in it. I didn't think about freezing the cobs until about a month ago.  I think we still have at least a couple of weeks for corn so by then it should make quite the big pot of, well something.
What is a fresh veggie box?
 

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What is a fresh veggie box?
Here, we can pay $13 or $17 a month depending on size and you get an assortment of veggies and sometimes fruit. This month, more fruit than normal because of the season. We got a watermelon, cantaloupe, corn, butternut squash, an onion, some tomatoes, zucchini, green onion, Swiss chard a cauliflower and a broccoli.
 

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I love soup!  My soup cravings have already begun!  Which type I want depends on the day.  I love a good Italian Wedding Soup!  My Gram made the best!!  I love New England Clam Chowder or Cream of Crab.  Sometimes I crave a good chicken noodle soup and sometimes a minestrone or veggie soup.  Split pea and ham is amazing too!

I don't do much cooking my own soup.  No one else in the house is much of a soup eater.  Sometimes I will put soup over rice and trick them into eating it. 
 

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Miso soup is my absolute favourite - I have some just as a broth every day!

I like veggie soups too, but nothing too starchy...unless its a good lentil soup that feels like a full meal in a bowl, that is :yummy:
 

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I make a chicken soup once a year for the passover. That's it.
The Japanese restaurant near me does the most fabulous spicy corn soup. It's delicious and I even have it in the summer and blow the heat.
 

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Amy's organic brand soups, especially the lentil vegetable (not the plain lentil one) and the butternut squash. They are the best soups I've ever had out of a can. I love soup and could eat it for lunch everyday. I never make my own, though. Maybe that should be my cooking project this autumn!

The other thing I love when it is cold out is a good beef chuck roast in the crock pot with red wine and thyme, served with carrots, potatoes and gravy made from the juices. Yum.
 
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