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Making soup today....

151949 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:04:46 GMT

My DH's favorite - Italian wedding soup. DH is working out in the garage and says every time he walks into the house it smells more delicious. There is a cold front here in SW Fl today and it was 40 last night and predicted to be 32 tonight so a good opportunity to clear out the fridge and make a pot of soup. I believe by saturday our weather is supposed to get back to normal.

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qvcfan526 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:09:40 GMT

I need some time I am dying for homemade chicken soup. Love soup, great weather for it! We are getting a noreaster on Sunday that could be my soup day!

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Harpa — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:11:21 GMT

hh, one of these days I will make Italian Wedding soup. Just you writing about it sounds wonderful. What kind of pasta do you use in it?

I was watching Ina the other week, and she baked off bite-sized chicken sausages before dropping into the soup, and I thought that was a good tip.

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jlkz — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:49:54 GMT

Know what you mean about the cold snap. When we got to Naples in mid-January the first thing I made was a15-pint pot of marinara sauce !!! Got 4 bags left...maybe I need to make another batch since we're getting company!

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Crisso — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:51:26 GMT

LOVE soup this time of year! I practically exclusively live on it. Please share your recipe.

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151949 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:57:30 GMT

On 2/19/2015 Harpa said:
hh, one of these days I will make Italian Wedding soup. Just you writing about it sounds wonderful. What kind of pasta do you use in it?

I was watching Ina the other week, and she baked off bite-sized chicken sausages before dropping into the soup, and I thought that was a good tip.

This morning I looked up Ina Garten's recipe before going to the store. I found frozen meatballs that were a combo of sausage, beef and chicken so I bought those instead of making the meatballs myself. I had 1 1/2 sausage links in the fridge - a slice of steak so they were cut up small and added as well. I had some celery, a few carrots and part of a head of cabbage to go in and I bought some baby spinach.Publix had Progresso low salt chicken broth on BOGO so I bought 4 of those. I use ditalini pasta - very small tubes - i will boil them before I add them to the soup for the last half hour - otherwise they use up all the liquid it seems. It certainly smells good in my kitchen right now. Definitely can smell sausage cooking. Ina's recipe calls for quite a bit more garlic than I used - I used one clove.

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151949 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:59:20 GMT

On 2/19/2015 Crisso said:
LOVE soup this time of year! I practically exclusively live on it. Please share your recipe.

I don't really use a recipe to make soup - soup is extremely forgiving - just use up whatever sounds good to you from the leftovers in your fridge. That is why restaurants always have soup - they use up the day before's leftovers to make it.

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151949 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:03:39 GMT

HA HA DH just came in for lunch and sniffed the soup pot and said "Goodness, I'm glad I married an Italian". Well, I'm glad he did too. Just for that I think I'll make some biscuits to go with that soup.

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marmot24 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:15:27 GMT

Hi H.H. Your soup sounds so good as here in Pittsburgh it's 6 degrees with wind chill below zero. Let us know how the frozen meatballs are as that is the part I hate the most, making all those tiny meatballs. Oh, just started snowing now too! Stay warm you lucky duck!!

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Snicks1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:23:35 GMT

Your soup sounds good, hh. Definitely soup weather here too, 2 degrees when I got up this morning. We have been eating soups from the freezer this week, various soups that I froze the remaining after I made them in early January, so today I am making a Boston Butt roast with veggies. I'll be happy when it is bar-b-que weather again.

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151949 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:51:40 GMT

On 2/19/2015 marmot24 said: Hi H.H. Your soup sounds so good as here in Pittsburgh it's 6 degrees with wind chill below zero. Let us know how the frozen meatballs are as that is the part I hate the most, making all those tiny meatballs. Oh, just started snowing now too! Stay warm you lucky duck!!

I have been watching the Hays eaglecam so I see the weather there. YIKES! Plus that seems to be all anyone on FB is talking about these days.

We are very very thankful that we had the means to move to Florida in the first place and to be able to come home to the burgh for the summers in our camper. We don't know how long that will last for us but in the end , we will be here in the Florida sunshine. My cousin , who lives in State College, (double BBRR) tried to make reservations to come down to Sarasota for a few days and could not get a room anywhere. They couldn't stay here because we already had company so they couldn't come and in the end they went to Puerto Rico instead. She said it was gorgeous there.

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mousiegirl — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:52:29 GMT

I will be making New England clam chowder today since DH is coming home late, don't want to be at the stove at that time.

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Toppers — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:32:22 GMT

Your soup sounds delicious, HappyHousewife.

There is nothing like a good pot of soup when the weather is cold.

I do like you do and just throw into my soup whatever spices and veggies I have on hand from the freezer, so one pot of soup from the next never really turns out quite the same, unless I am actually following a specific recipe for sure.

Enjoy your soup. I bet that it is going to taste as good as it sounds!