Soup de Yule

Christmas in Austin found us sitting around a table with friends and a giant pot of soup. "Autumn Harvest Stew" to be more precise. This recipe came from this amazing cookbook: which Billie bought for me for xmas. BEST GIFT EVER. I cant wait to make more of them. Anyway, soup, salad, some amazing tofu, a little boozin' and good company made for one of my favorite holidays ever.
here's a photo of the deliciousness to make your mouth water


and of course, the gang (minus some key members), and then some were here...


In other news, there's a rumor that SG founder Leif Valin will be in town in a matter of days. Hopefully we will have the first official Soup Gang meeting of the Austin meets Colorado Chapter.

and one more thing...in the next week, i WILL be getting parsely tattooed on my leg...since i wasn't kidding when i said it was the king of all ingredients.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS from the kids who were doing soup before soup was cool.
-Meghan

Too Busy to make soup....

Its been busy with holiday season and all, So I wanted to make some kind of post. Above is Rochester's own soup enthusiast Tony Hamlin, riding a bowl that would take a semi truck to fill with ramen noodles.
The pic is from a cross country trek we made in september, that bowl is in Omaha. Party!

Soup Gangster ass Potato Corn Chowder

Following Meghans Post. the Plain Street Soup Posse put together a Roasted Red and Pablano pepper verion of the Potato Corn Chowder...
Served With Collard greens and biscuits, it was NICE!
Ingredients included teh obvious, as well as a dash of Maple syrup, some vegtable bullion, garlic, leeks, carrots and a ton of other veggies. Use a motorized handblender, as well as a ski mask helped with the chowder effect. While making the Soup, Zuess, the white english bull terrier, ate raw biscuits off the table....

Mushroom & Sweet Potato

A little freestyle soup action by Mr. Mihelich himself.

The pot...


The [not so] secret ingredient...


Almost there...


Roscoe, when asked how he felt about it...

Bowl a rama..

No soup in this bowl, unless you consider Kelly Baker a soup ingredient, in which case it could be a bowl of crazy bastard soup, with a pack of newports and some soggy leaves....
I did Manage to scarf down some Tomotillo Squash soup last night, but no pics... oh well.

The Soup About Town

I figured I'd make postings on the soups one can not only make, but buy around town. Today I had some roasted veggie soup from ThunderCloud Subs on Riverside. (In Austin)

It was a little on the mushy side...but it will do in a pinch.



-Meghan

Vegan Potato Corn Chowder, Experiment #1

Wednesday November 29, in Austin, Texas:
Billie and Meghan used a recipe and made vegan potato corn chowder. It was sort of an experiment, really. The recipe ended up being a bit on the bland side, but with a little faux chicken stock, some parsley (the king of all ingredients) and some hot sauce, it was pretty delish. Stew Johnson ate it...but we all know stew+anyfood=happy.

I think the move next time is to add: roasted corn (instead of frozen), roasted red peppers (instead of raw), and some poblano peppers.

Yesterday it was 64 degrees in nyc and 42 in austin.

Happy Souping...Texas Freezes.






PS: soup gang now has a myspace page as well.
Kill the Bad, Eat the Good