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When I was little, we lived across the street from my paternal grandparents. Both my parents worked and if I was too sick to go to school, my grandmother would look after me. She would always make me a batch of her chicken noodle soup. I loved it because it was always full of shredded chicken in a broth that was flavored with celery and carrot. In her version, the noodles were macaroni, too. I thought that was the best part! I still make this whenever I need a comforting pick-me up meal.

Some of my favorite meal soups are probably in this cookbook :o) Lots of family hot pot meal action growing up- love the use of fresh ingredients and simple seasoning that are trademarks of Japanese cooking.

My favorite soup still to this day is a home made veggie and beef soup my mom would make. Beef, rice, carrots, celery, and onions. Simple, but she would always use consomme for the base instead of like a beef cube, which I think made all the difference in the world.

The thing I will still remember most about the soup is that it seemed to stay hot forever, which made it great for winter meals gorwing up.

Growing up, my mother would make a great minestrone. The house would be filled with the inviting and warm aroma as it simmered away on the stove. Needless to say, I now make it for my family.

I love my mom's mushroom barley soup. Just smelling it makes me feel cozy and full!

However, I just recently had Burmese food for the first time, and the samusa soup was incredible. Cabbage, broken up falafel, jalapenos, onion, a nice not-too-spicy kind of curry broth. DELICIOUS. I want it all the time now. Too bad there are no Burmese restaurants in Chicago...

I love soup so much. But I have to say... Italian Wedding Soup or New England Clam Chowder are near the top of my list. I'm planning on making some split pea this week. Yum!

A thick, hearty split pea and ham soup.

Today I'm home sick with a nasty cold and all I want is a big bowl of chicken soup with some kind of small chewy dumplings and a bunch of garlic and a touch of chili in the broth

Nabeyaki udon! Yummy broth, chewy udon noodles, napa, tofu, kamaboko, egg...mmmm!

Fish chowder on a cold, wet day. Creamy, smoky (from the bacon -- everything's better with bacon, you know), peppery, and thick with flaky white fish and potato pieces. I'll never understand why anybody bothers with clams.

I like to make soup using a chicken carcass for the broth base. First I boil the carcass in a pot of water and strain out the bones and skin. I also pick off any remaining meat and add it to the pot. Then I add noodles, spices and veggies. It is different every time, but very filling and satisfying.

Posole with some corn tortillas on the side.

French Onion duh!

My wife's chicken soup...pozole...any noodle soup from New Chao Chow though the beef stew noodle soup is the heartiest if you are looking to fill up.

Hungarian Goulash Soup.
Big chunks of tender meat and wedges of slow-cooked potatoes. If I close my eyes, I can just about smell it.

My meal-worthy soup memories are mainly not home-based. When my mother would try something with barley, it generally turned into a comical disaster due to the unanticipated expansion of the barley. I'm waiting for Pho to become as prevalent in suburban CT as it seemed to be on my last visit to Seattle...

I agree with all of the pho comments. My best bowl was for breakfast, atop a roofdeck overlooking Ho Chi Minh City!

Potatoe Leek Soup!

I'm a pretty picky soup consumer, and the only one that consistently gets me running to the dinner table is pho. So good when you have a cold!

Definitely going to have to go with pho. Love it. Yum!

so many choices....pho is good. or chinese style beef noodle soup, with star anise and spinach and pickled mustard greens. or chinese style hot pot, or in my house, also known as, let's clean out our refrigerator and put everything into this hot pot on a portable butane burner. dipping sauce- raw egg yolk (don't worry- it gets cooked with when things are dipped into it...at least I think it does), soy sauce, sesame oil, and sacha (bull's head bbq sauce brand). so good for wintertime!

I love making and eating Italian Wedding soup. Ooh, and my mom's borscht, which I just got a large delivery of.

Egg drop whatever

Stock plus egg plus anything in frig/ veggie bin
always good

Pretty much any kind of chowder wins. I fell in love with potato and corn chowders (believe it or not) at the dorm cafeteria in college, and now I'll find excuses to make them myself even if it's not seasonally appropriate.

My favorites are all the Korean soups -- seaweed, tofu, kimchee, soon dooboo, dduk, etc. They're all good, I can't choose one. And pasta fagioli too.

So craving a super thick cream of tomato right now -- preferably with a grilled cheese sandwich!

I was sick this weekend with a cold and made the Filipino Chicken Soup (penicillin) called Tinola. The best thing ever--like traditional chicken soup but with ginger and garlic. How could it not cure a cold?

“Sai Min” (saimin/saimen/saimian) is one of my favorite dishes that combines the best things in the world in one bowl of happiness and yumminess. I’ve had it at the hands of my island-famous great-grandfather (who used to own a store/restaurant in Hawai’i, and would cut the noodles by hand).

I thought it was a Cantonese dish, but after much research, I have found that it is unique to the islands! No wonder everyone I talked to about it had no clue what I was saying.

from the same part of the world: a big bowl of ramen.

this is so weird, I just went to a shabu shabu place in Brooklyn yesterday. I had a hankering for flash cooker meats and we always see this place is packed. We were given strange looks and menus but I guess they never see two white guys and a handsome indian guy finish a whole pot of hot and spicy broth with a platter of meat in less than half an hour. But overall the place was great and food was so amazing.

I make a really good minestrone and also chicken-vegetable-noodle. Potato and onion when you are sick.

Gotta be French Onion w/ a great big crouton and a whole mess of crispy cheese on top!

Vegetarian chili!

Meal-worthy soup? It's a toss up between a good pho tai, tom kha gai, and chicken lemongrass soup.

But, if you want to have a soup that just makes you feel good, you cannot beat a nice big bowl of miso with spring onions and fried shallots.

Tomato corn chowder made by my mother.

I love soups and stews. I could eat soup everyday. For a cold blustery evening, a hearty gumbo or sausage and lentil soup is great!

Butternut squash soup with turkey sausage over rice! It's so filling and delicious. I can't wait until it cools down in Florida so I can make some!

My Mom makes a wonderful pot of homemade vegetable beef soup. She uses a huge pot and adds many wonderful veggies, including some home canned and frozen. She always gives each of us a half gallon or more to take home and sends jars full of soup to our neighbors. She says she can't make a small pot. Actually she usually makes three pots, one with everything for most of the family, one for my daughter without meat and one for my son without beans.

Pho or anything with a ton of udon noodles!

Chick pea, sausage, kale, basil oil.

My gramma used to make this soup she called "ga la tong" which was like a chinese-style chicken and dumplings. It used up leftovers from the previous night's dinner and she'd drop pieces of dough in to simmer into dumplings while also thickening the soup. It was so comforting and no one but her knows how to make it!

Vichyssoise, nice and hot now that the weather has cooled off a bit.

I'm a big fan of udon -- there's something about savory broth and thick noodles, I even like the fish cake -- but the meal-worthy soup that I make when I'm feeling unwell is a garlic-heavy take on chicken noodle... With broth I've made, grilled chicken pieces, carrots, lots of garlic, and gnocchi in place of the spindly pasta seen in canned and envelope varieties. It always manages to warm me up.

When I started making stock, I used to season the hell out of it, creating the richest chicken soup ever.

Oh, who am I kidding? I still do it, and it's fantastic. I just have to remember not to use it in the wrong recipes!

kimchee soup! kimchee + stock + tiny bits of tofu = mmmmmm

My favorite meal-worthy soup has got to be Baba's borscht;
but I really enjoy experimenting with seasonal veg at home.

I would adore this book!

Pho. My boyfriend's family is straight from Vietnam and his mother is an amazing cook. Now that the weather is getting cool again his mom has started to make pho during the weekends. It is so filling and the warmth stays with you. It is the best soup I've ever had.

Carrot soup with a little dollop of sour cream!

Gazpacho! Made the old school way, thick with bread tomatoes and oil, topped with.....hmm.... serrano ham, basil, green onion slivers, etc..... I miss summer already.

My mother used to make a brothy soup of tomatoes, potatoes, and ground beef, flavored with sesame oil. I loved eating it with rice!

pho! I never feel like I need anything else after I eat a big bowl.

Pho, usually, but given that this is a Japanese cookbook, Chukka Soba from the Korakuen chain of ramen-yas in Japan.

Chicken soup and matzoh balls

Spicy Hot and Sour Soup is the way to go. It's good for you, dietetic and easy to make.

My friend just had a baby and I brought her a pot full of Minest and Beans. I also make a lot of Borscht.

As a teenager I was on ski patrol at Mont St. Saveur in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. Always being weight conscious I would eat a salad for lunch at the chalet and would leave the hills at 4 o'clock Sunday's to beat traffic into Montreal and get home to my mother would have made her standard Borscht complete with flanken and tomatoes and onions and cabbage. I would scoff down two bowls and then lay down to watch sunday night tv....this was a routing that lasted from my early teens to my late 20's..... that borscht...and those ski hills..

Lentil or french canadian pea

Sexpot Hotpot.

For me, vegetable tofu soup is usually enough for lunch, or anytime I have a craving for it

When I was growing up, my dad used to make a family sized soup noodle out of a couple of ramen packets and whatever leftovers were in the fridge. Dinner for four in under 10 minutes.

Ochazuke!

My fiance and I have a favorite soup we've shared with several friends. Italian sausage, small shell pasta, beans, thyme, and lemon combine to make a really delicious soup. We make at least once a month, even in summer. It's light, and yet very filling.

Japanese Ramen from Hokkaido!

Seafood chowder!!!!

Great idea for a restaurant

beef barley soup- yummy and full of vegies and beef

new engladn clam chowder with french bread, yum.

I have a friend who runs a Chinese restaurant in Northern California... her hot and sour soup is to die for. After a few years of harassing her, I finally got her recipe. I don't make it as well as she does, but man. It's good.

My grandmother's recipe for potato soup. It had bacon, onion, carrot, celery, potato's, milk, flour, salt and pepper in it.
Then it was topped in individual bowls with cheddar cheese.
Just add a hearty slice of rye bread as a side, or a biscuit and you were set.
Yum.

nothing better than chicken tortilla soup.

German Potato soup - so filling and warming!

One of my mom's friends gave her a recipe that was her husband Jerry's favorite. It has ground beef, onions and bow tie noodles. We have always called it Jerry Soup.

A thick lentil soup - yum!

Thanks for the giveaway!

Best hot pot I ever had was King's Noodle House in Toronto. I always save veg and meat parts in the freezer and make stock for soup and cooking. That reminds me, I need to make a batch up.

I'm not going to lie. I love free stuff.

My favorite soup is what my Mom makes chicken w/squash and long rice with various vegetables.

Chicken stock, udon noodles, sliced pork, chili oil and green onions

my homemade chicken soup is the best comfort food, feeds the soul

On these terrible blustery cold miserable days there is nothing like beef and noodles (the noodles MUST be home made). It just warms you up from the soul out.

So many different soups I grew up with to choose from but I would have to pick foul nabet. My mother would make it once a year. It is a traditional Egyptian soup made from broad (fava) beans, that have been soaked in water until the germinate then cooked in a lemony garlicky broth.

After it was done, we'd fish out the the cooked broad beans and eat them edamame style, eat the tender insides and discard the tough skin and eat the tasty broth to which we'd add toasted pita bread "croutons".

Pho is a favorite when feeling under the weather, or just wanting something tasty and quick!

I was village hopping in Southwestern China and one of the villages held a water buffalo fight as part of the welcoming ceremony. Later that day, my friend and I were fed this delicious hot pot meal, consisting of the losing water buffalo (sorry buddy). A few minutes into our meal, my friend pointed out that he and i had a single ball in each of our bowls that nobody else seemed to have. In short, eating a water buffalo testicle wasn't horrible...little chewy...i definitely haven't had any more since then. Overall, maybe not my favorite, but definitely one of the more memorable hot pot meals I've had.

Pho for sures! Its cheap, delicious, and easy! My mother, who is paranoid of "unknown meats" in asian restaurants even tried it....and liked it! Insane!

There is nothing better than a good chicken and wild rice

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When I was a little girl, my grandmother always made sure to prepare a pot of her decadent chicken soup whenever my sister and I went over to her house. With a recipe that calls for an entire silkie chicken, > four cups of water, and a sprinkle of goji berries, simmered for hours, the soup was an magical elixir to cure any ailment or maybe just to put a happy smile on the chubby face of a five-year-old glutton. To this day, almost twenty years since her passing, I still associate the wonderful memory of my beloved grandmother with her delicious chicken soup.

P.S. Despite following her recipe, not even my mother was able to recreate Grandma's soup. My guess is it really was magic...

I love soup. Made a pot of potatoe soup the other evening, getting ready to make gazpacho.

The soup I make that is meal worthy is gumbo. However I love the soup meals at our local Korean and Vietnamese restaurants. I wouldn't even know where to start to make them myself (plus I'm too cheap to buy the separate ingredients so mine would be substandard anyway).

Chicken broth. Eggs. Rice. So comforting and so basic.

A chicken tortilla soup...very good...

My favorite has to be my Mom's vegetable soup. She makes it with all sorts of fresh veggies, a good soup bone or two and a variety of pastas. Talk about delicious!

I like to make a hot and sour chicken soup with misc vegetables

The most popular soup at our house is a simple potato soup that I make nearly every Monday morning for lunch. Our kids love it!

We make a mean minestrone!

I'd have to say Split Pea and Lobster Bisque, my favorites! Thank you!

I love to make a Korean soup made with fresh chicken cooked in water and spiced with plenty of grated fresh ginger. The chicken is shredded, and a cup or two of cooked rice is added to the broth and cooked until the soup has the consistency of "chowder." Serve in Oriental bowls and garnished with sliced green onions and Korean sesame salt. Delish, and very healing if you are suffering from respiratory "flu."

My fav. meal worth soup is a big bowl of old fashioned home made chicken stew with veggies

Minestrone :)

My Momma liked to make big ol pots of soups and stews. All us kids and our kids would come over and eat. Sometimes she'd be creative and add different things. My Daddy would smell it and come in and ask what she was cooking. She would tell him she was making "stuff". It was funny. She was a great cook.

My favorite meal worthy soup would be homemade bean soup with ham and bacon in it. I make it with a ham bone and let it simmer for about 3 hours. Very tasty and filling. I also like my mom's homemade vegetable soup with fresh veggies from the garden! Mmm good!

Wild rice soup. A thick, creamy base with vegetables and chicken added. Top with parmesan cheese and homemade croutons.

homemade soups, starting with meat bones and ending with seasonal vegetables....the best! takes hours to simmer on the stove...but the end results are used in so many meals...the simplest being laddled into a big bowl and with a crusty bread on the side.

I'm a simple kind of lady, so my favorite soup is homemade chicken noodle. I like to make it with escarole and egg noodles. It's just so delicious.

I love minestrone soup with garlic breadsticks.. MM! I could eat that every.single.day!

I love vegetable stew!