Kitchen

[ECBG]

Campbells soups have fed America!  All the roasts, gravies, and dishes like chicken pot pie that used cream of chicken soup.  Their chicken noodle fed countless sick children as well as all the soup everyone has paired with a sandwich for a meal.

We had some delicious roasts and meat loaf with gravy made with mushroom soup and an awesome chicken pot pie with homemade crust made with oil that is lighter than air.  

For years I didn't add any extra salt (I rarely salt anyway).  

Today, we grill mostly.

[bmorechick]

lol...we are Polish/German. Czarnina (pronounced chodd-nina) was a soup we ate constantly. It was made with duck's blood and homemade egg noodles. Beef soup was another one, chicken soup, string bean soup, lima bean soup...omg YES soup for you!!! NEVER out of the can. We had a huge pot of soup at least once a week, which meant you ate for two days on it.  I make the beef soup and chicken soup, but not czarnina - can't get a fresh quart of duck's blood anymore and you had to cook with it before it coagulated. Memories...

[Peaches McPhee]

Mom did it sometimes.  I do it now and then.  I actually have a cookbook that provides receipes using soup.  

[athenian]

I had Campbell's soup almost everyday for lunch, with a sandwich and apple, but Mother didn't cook many casseroles.  She was a meat, two veg and bread type, and fruit for dessert except for Sundays.  My dad's only main dish, if Mother wasn't cooking, which was very rare, was a casserole with chicken and mushroom soup.  We didn't like it too much.  Poor Dad.

[chickenbutt]

Not at all.  But, to be fair, I had to start doing the cooking when I was 6.  Since I didn't have that as an example, it never would have occurred to me to cook using canned soup as an 'ingredient'.  I learned to cook by trial and error, so I guess I was fortunate (I can say, in retrospect) to actually learn to cook so young.

I cannot see a scenario which would have me cooking with canned soup.  YMMV and that's totally cool.     

[jaxs mom]

Not a lot. My mom made chicken and dumplings from scratch. We did have Campbells chicken noodle for lunch or snacks on occasion. My aunt made that disgusting green bean casserole. If my mom made any of those dishes that called for canned soup concentrate I must have blocked them out like so many of her other meals. I don't cook like that myself. I make stock, sauces and gravy's from scratch. 

[GCR18]

My mother never cooked with soup.  My father was a meat and potatoes eater, not into gravies or sauces.

[CelticCrafter]

My mother never used it as an ingredient.

On the rare occasion that we did have soup for dinner, it was always homemade.

We weren't casserole eaters, my dad was meat and potatoes, so she never made those.

[Kachina624]

The only thing I remember mom cooking with soup was sloppy Joes.  She discovered this quick and easy recipe where she browned a pound of ground beef, added a can of chicken gumbo soup and maybe some other stuff like onions, and served it on buns.  Seems like we had this every other night for awhile.

[ChynnaBlue]

Not very often. She made soup, but didn't cook with soup much. I've never really been a fan of anything made with "cream of (anything)" soups. I suspect my grandparents cooked with soup more often. In my mind, I always associate cream of (anything) soups with mid-century, like strange gelatin salads.