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Bean soup, but I've had deeply unsatisfactory results using the bones from honey-bakes. But we can get good country ham here, and it's easy to get ham hocks to add. But then I really like my vegetarian lentil soup, too, and there's a superb tomato bisque in the Cafe Beaujolais Cb that everyone loves, and that sweet corn and roasted chile....oh, never mind. The answer is, "lots of them".

With the current heat wave, I have to get in a MN January mindset to think about soup....Nothing is better than a hot bowl of soup & some fresh bread when its 30 below zero!

Favorites: Potato leek (with a bit of bacon & served with soda bread); Lobster (or Crab) Bisque; Bean soup (any kind of beans) when I have a leftover ham bone; hot & sour soup, especially when I am coming down with a cold.

A former roommate of mind introduced me to a divine tomato bisque soup. That's my fall back on cold, rainy days. Also, chicken soup with homemade noodles. Add some homemade wheat bread and I think I'm in heaven.

I have two: borscht and butter bean. Usually, though, my go to soup involves red lentils, carrots, tomatoes and curry spices. It's great, quick, and I almost always have the ingredients around anyway.

This is cheating, but one my favorite things to cook (period) is chili. It's like a cousin to soup, right? It's one of the only things I look forward to about winter.

Gumbo, gumbo and gumbo, chicken or seafood. My roomies in AZ gave me an honorary "Ph.D" in Gumbo....LOL. Non-authentic for the most part, I add red, white and green veggies just because.

I love the way the flavors sort of "layer" first the cooked chicken, with skin and fat removed, bones left in, that gets done first thing and can then cool a bit until I am ready for it. Then the roux.....mmmmmm..... then onions, garlic and the veggies and finally the whole combined melange of wonderful warm smells.

I cook lots of soups, but I dance around (listening to Mark Savoy on the player) when making gumbo.

A North African soup called Harira. My all time favorite.

Garbanzo and Leek soup (from one of Jamie Oliver's cookbooks). Take garbanzo beans and saute them with chopped leeks and garlic, add a potato, and then add chicken stock. Put the whole mixture in the food processor, season with salt and pepper, and top with a generous amount of parmesan cheese - yummy! My roommates in college taught me how to make this and every time I do, I think of them.

Italian beef with dilantini or acini de pepe
Italian wedding
Escarole and white bean
Tomato and rice
Potato Leek
New England Clam Chowder
Onion with ale and the ever gratinous crouton

A favorite soup in our house is a modified Emeril recipe. It's homemade creamy chicken and wild wild rice soup, seasoned with black pepper, fresh thyme, and green onions. I make a huge pot and it's gone in a couple of days.

HHHHhhhhmmmmm... favorite soup from scratch... um... YES?!?! Let's just say that soup is absolutely one of my top three favorite foods. Ever. Anywhere. Against all foods. Period.

I make it constantly. Chunky. Pureed. Beans. Meats. Veggies. Simple. Complicated. MMMMMmmmmmmmm... I love soup.

Lima beans with hamhocks or ham bone (NOT honeybaked... why do people BUY those???)
Tomato (fresh)
Albondigas (I have an EXCELLENT recipe)
Pureed vegetable
Minestrone

I could just go on and on.

Best, most memorable I ever had? The nettle soup in Stockholm, Sweden. It was beyond good. Transcendental. Orgasmic.

{ok. end rave. blush.}

I love to make French onion soup at home, mainly because it's hard to find a good version out (unless you're eating at an expensive French restaurant) -- most are greasy, salty, and overly cheesy. Patience is the biggest virtue you'll need with it, as the onions take a while on low heat to caramelize...but it's worth it.

Dominic
the zen kitchen

I would also have too many to list, so I will list my wifes favorites that I make:

White Bean Chicken Chilli
Chicken Tortilla (w/black beans & fire roasted tomatoes, corn...you get the picture)

My recent two would probably be:

Brunswick Stew
Lentil

I also make a killer White Cheddar and Leek, and sometimes a Pumkin and White Bean (w/a olive oil and parsley puree swirled in the middle). Soup that is....

tyronebcookin

My favorite homemade soup is Lentil Soup.