[CFrance]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Do you have a good recipe for this "du jour" soup? Maybe the Wednesday or Thursday variety?

Ha ha! Good one.

[Walter123]

Originally Posted by CFrance

That's because du jour is grown all over France and tastes quite different depending upon the region and terroir.

Just like wine, very interesting. LOL.

[Walter123]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Mais oui. It always has that Je ne sais quoi.


This not directed at you, Walter, but...Upscale pfffft. Most of us are trying to have our money outlive us. The PRICE is RIGHT at most local restaurants and most restaurants have at least a couple of items that are always delicious. And Chez Home is still open for good food, simply prepared...and.. There are amazingly good frozen entrees these days.


I really don't like food snobbery. Some folks think they are such gourmets. I think some of them are just picky eaters and their mom didn't make them eat what was on their plate. This is not directed at you Tomwed or anybody posting...it is just a rant. Now I feel better.

Oh NO!!!!!!! Are you saying that there are soup snobs in The Villages? NO SOUP FOR YOU............COME BACK ONE YEAR!

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Do you have a good recipe for this "du jour" soup? Maybe the Wednesday or Thursday variety?

I think it's the French version of a rue (?sp). Not like you will rue the day, but a Southern cooking rue

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Walter123

Oh NO!!!!!!! Are you saying that there are soup snobs in The Villages? NO SOUP FOR YOU............COME BACK ONE YEAR!

Better we have soup snobs than soup nazis

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Mais oui. It always has that Je ne sais quoi.


This not directed at you, Walter, but...Upscale pfffft. Most of us are trying to have our money outlive us. The PRICE is RIGHT at most local restaurants and most restaurants have at least a couple of items that are always delicious. And Chez Home is still open for good food, simply prepared...and.. There are amazingly good frozen entrees these days.


I really don't like food snobbery. Some folks think they are such gourmets. I think some of them are just picky eaters and their mom didn't make them eat what was on their plate. This is not directed at you Tomwed or anybody posting...it is just a rant. Now I feel better.

No offense taken but I disagree.

When my kids were very little they had no preconception of what tastes good. I'm not sure if taste buds dictate what you eat. I think it's environment. So I fed my kids anchovies, broccoli, mushrooms, asparagus, mussels, clams, spinach, eggplant--all foods that some people won't eat. I enjoyed them so they enjoyed them. I didn't need to make them. The boys have a much richer life when it comes to eating. My wife is picky and so is my daughter. I never forced her either. More often than not I had to make two meals, one "wit" and one "witout". I cook well because I couldn't, and still can't afford to eat out.

As I get older I tend to gravitate to peasant food. The term does sound snobby but the food uses easily found ingredients that poor people ate. I think Marcella Hazen is my favorite cook.
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[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by tomwed

No offense taken but I disagree.

When my kids were very little they had no preconception of what tastes good. I'm not sure if taste buds dictate what you eat. I think it's environment. So I fed my kids anchovies, broccoli, mushrooms, asparagus, mussels, clams, spinach, eggplant--all foods that some people won't eat. I enjoyed them so they enjoyed them. I didn't need to make them. The boys have a much richer life when it comes to eating. My wife is picky and so is my daughter. I never forced her either. More often than not I had to make two meals, one "wit" and one "witout". I cook well because I couldn't, and still can't afford to eat out.

As I get older I tend to gravitate to peasant food. The term does sound snobby but the food uses easily found ingredients that poor people ate. I think Marcella Hazen is my favorite cook.
Take a look:

I read this three times and we really don't disagree. That would ruin my day. I am your fan.

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I read this three times and we really don't disagree. That would ruin my day. I am your fan.

I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking and didn't mean to offend.

[Walter123]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I read this three times and we really don't disagree. That would ruin my day. I am your fan.

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[rcook715]

I don't go to upscale restaurants to order soup

[golfing eagles]

Still no takers on Vichyssoise? You don't know what you're missing.
Now my runners up:
Italian wedding soup
Gumbo
French onion overloaded with cheese on top
Gazpacho
Lobster Bisque
New England clam chowder (from Durgin's Park)

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by rcook715

I don't go to upscale restaurants to order soup

I do! Just had a butternut squash soup to die for at a very good restaurant ( not in FL). I love a good chef's soup as a starter to a well executed meal of moderate portions.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Walter123

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I agree Walter. I am sappy a LOT.


And I changed the subject right in the middle again. I was waiting for the folks who say that there isn't anything edible in The Villages so I could attack them and say they are picky eaters..They didn't post so I just attacked anyway.


My very favorite soups are;


Mushroom Brie
Beef Cabbage
Italian Wedding
Mock Turtle
Tomato Bisque
Corn Chowder
Potato


Any can be ordinary but they all can be wonderful if made with skill.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by CFrance

I do! Just had a butternut squash soup to die for at a very good restaurant ( not in FL). I love a good chef's soup as a starter to a well executed meal of moderate portions.

A little off topic, but not far. This thread reminds me of one very hot summer in Jackson Mississippi (weren't they all though). My wife makes fabulous soups of all varieties but got on a kick of making various borscht soups over a couple of weeks. And they were all served cold. After the third or forth evening our kids called me at work the next afternoon to complain that Mom was making more cold cabbage soup and would I please bring home an edible alternative. I picked up a pizza and, as I recall, my wife was not particularly pleased. She served the borscht the next evening anyway.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by dbussone

A little off topic, but not far. This thread reminds me of one very hot summer in Jackson Mississippi (weren't they all though). My wife makes fabulous soups of all varieties but got on a kick of making various borscht soups over a couple of weeks. And they were all served cold. After the third or forth evening our kids called me at work the next afternoon to complain that Mom was making more cold cabbage soup and would I please bring home an edible alternative. I picked up a pizza and, as I recall, my wife was not particularly pleased. She served the borscht the next evening anyway.

Nothing better than leftover pizza washed down with day- old borscht!