I love to make soup on Sundays. Fry down the onion and celery and maybe garlic and toss whatever is in the fridge into the stockpot and let it cook for a couple hours. Makes the whole house smell amazing and makes food for a week.
Bowl after bowl after bowl of soup.
Ssssoooooooouuppppppppp.
Same soup again and again and again and again.
So I came up with a solution. I call it Soup That is Based on that Story in the Bible Where the Lady Keeps Taking a Coin from Her Purse or Maybe it was Wheat from a Sack or Water from a Well or Fish from a Barrel but the Purse/Sack/Well/Barrel Never Runs Empty but Whatever the Story is, My Brain Automatically Tells Me it's Pickles from a Jar, Most Likely because I Haven't Heard nor Read the Story in Thirty Years and I Loved Pickles as a Small Child and I'm Not Motivated to Check the Facts because I don't Care because it's the Moral that Counts.
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"Pickle Soup"
Pickle Soup is simple. You start with the basic-est of basic soup on Sunday, and then every day you add something else so it's a little different each time you eat it.
Today I made potato soup. Tomorrow I'll probably add broccoli. Cheese the next day. Then carrots the following. A can of corn. Dice up those tomatoes. The halfabagga frozen peas that's in the back of the freezer. Some crab, maybe.
It's a good way to use up what you have, eat something that doesn't come off a lunch truck, feel creative in the kitchen, and make up your own bible stories upon which to base your life.

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I love this :)
I think you are thinking of the old Italian folk story, Strega Nonna, who makes soup and feeds everyone.
Sounds good and yummy!
i don't know why i'm so intimidated by SOUP. it's kind of embarrassing.
great idea! I love soup.
Then write a book: Pickle Soup for the Soul.
Seriously, it sound like a great plan
Sounds good to me!!
Hugs
SueAnn
We never have enough leftover to add anything. This is a soup loving family. It's one meal I know I can make and everyone will happily eat without grumbling.
You had me at Potato. OMFG.
I usually make soup once a week and it is usually "Clean out the Fridge" soup. Whatever is sitting around and will kind of go together gets tossed in the post.
I actually started some yesterday, roasted some beef short ribs with onion, celery, yellow pepper and some garlic that was just about ready to be ground into powder. No pickles went in the pot though. ;)
It was Oil from the Jar. Working with a Deacon comes in handy sometimes.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%2017.1-15&version=NIV
I love soup! I love soup that lasts for a week. And I love chili - EVERYTHING STEW!
I second your soup making on Sunday chic... That's pretty much the norm on Sundays at our house too... Make a big pot that will be my lunch for the next few days at work and a back-up meal on the nights I don't feel like cooking :)
This is the same strategy I use when make my infamous beer-bacon-cheddar soup, in that every day it hasn't all been consumed, I add another half pound of bacon to it.
i just got a soup cookbook from the library called Love Soup and swear to God, there's a recipe for pickle soup in it. with pickles and everything.
This reminds me of a bucket we used to have in college. We'd add something new every day: cigarette butts, toenails, dip-spit, semen. And at the end of the week, we'd pour a bunch of lighter fluid in and set it on fire, sometimes indoors. It's a wonder I'm still alive and not really a social degenerate.
Yummmy . . . old fashioned delicious soup.
I make lots of soup.
Care to have a soup potluck party?
Everyone brings one ingredient and you put it all in a giant pot and simmer.
When all the leftovers in the fridge go into a soup pot, I call it "Punishment Soup", but the family laughs and eats seconds! It always turns out great. Well, almost always. And pretty great.
Some great ideas here from your friends! I also love soup!
Stay warm! It was 5 degrees this morning in St. Louie!
Sunday is my soup day, too. :)
Pumpkin this week.
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I like soup on Sundays too. It's one of the few good things about winter. It just seems warmer somehow when there's a pot of something wonderful bubbling away on the stove or in the crock pot. It fills the house with happy smells.
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