Kitchen

[151949]

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.

[qvcfan526]

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!

[Harpa]

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.

[jlkz]

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!

[Crisso]

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

[151949]

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.

[151949]

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.

[151949]

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.

[marmot24]

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!!

[Snicks1]

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.