Bowl or Plate (aka Soup-obsessed)?

rosebarnalice
rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Okay, I confess: I'm a soup and bowl nut.

If my hubby is having a chicken breast, green beans and mashed potatoes for dinner, I'll put all of that in a bowl and add a bit of veggie stock and eat it as soup. If he's having black bean enchiladas, I'll take the sauce and black beans and put in a bowl with half a can of tomatoes added and make enchilada soup (skip the cheese and tortilla, thank you.)

*HE* says that mushing everything up together is visually unappealing and makes all of the flavors run together.

*I* say I like the way a bowl feels in my hand, I like eating with a spoons better than stabbing my food with a fork, and I like the "fullness" I feel after eating a big bowl of soup (even if a lot of that fullness is water). AND I contend that the flavors can still be distinct if everything is added together just before serving rather than cooking for hours in a pot.

How 'bout you:
Are you a plate or a bowl? Fork or spoon?

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  • trijoe
    trijoe Posts: 729 Member
    My wife can't stand soup, so I never make it. But I love it when I have it.

    When I was a poor college student, I worked the evening shift in a deli. The owner wanted freshly made soups every day, so he'd throw away the soups at the end of each day. I'd put the old soup in an empty container of some sort and take it home. Boil up a few noodles the next day, reheat the soup, and pour it on top of the noodles for pasta sauce. I lived pretty doggone well on pasta sauce soup.

    Edit to add: Now I heat up leftovers and put them in morning omelets. Yummy!

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