cooking primitive solicits recipes for soup; interesting interruption

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wryter2000  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 02:55 PM
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I'm going to need your help in the coming year

I'm part of a group of writers who publish a monthly blog. I got the assignment for doing the recipe section for next year. (Okay, I volunteered. )

As a writer, I'm pretty sensitive to copyright issues and don't want to lift other people's recipes without their permission. I'm going to be using some of my own, but if you guys have your own, copyright-free recipes, I'd like to pick your brain.

I'm thinking I'll do soups for January. I have my own recipes for clam chowdah and lentil. I think I'll work up a cream of cauliflower and cream of mushroom soup, too. If you have ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'll be testing the recipes in December.

dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 03:16 PM
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1. A lot of stuff I make is my own recipe, and I don't care to keep much of it a secret.

Feel free to use anything I've already posted here, for whatever it's worth.

And I'll run through my feeble memory for a day or two, and see if there are any good soups in there.

(I make great chicken soup, but that's not so much a regular recipe as it is a standard process)

wryter2000  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 04:13 PM
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2. Thanks

I'll probably ask for recipes every month, particularly for desserts. They'll probably be popular, and I don't make a lot of desserts.

This will probably be a cook-with-a-can-of-soup crowd, but I want to give them good, simple things whenever possible.

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After which a most peculiar digression:

dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 05:06 PM
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3. "Cook-with-a-can-of-soup", you say? I may be able to contribute more than I imagined.

I'm currently in the midst of one of those "reversals of fortune" that we all experience from time to time.

You know the type of thing I mean: Your beloved sweetie of 9 years joins a cult, invites 5 carloads of Cops over to help kick you out onto the street with nothing but 3 cigarettes and a thick set of bruises to your name, and you end up hiding out 3 states away in the basement of some old school chums whom you hope you NEVER mentioned to her, because she's got 30 fanatical loons scouring the planet looking for more ways to cause TROUBLE for you?

Yeah, we've all been there. And "there" involves a lot of food that comes out of CANS...so I'm working alot of my magick with simple, easy-to-make ideas right now.

Synchronicity rules.

wryter2000  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 06:08 PM
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4. Wow

I hope things get better for you.

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And then things get back on track:

dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 07:33 PM
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6. Are writers as poor as artiststs? I'm an artist, and I came up with this recipe long ago:

(Things ALWAYS get better for me, BTW. Always.

Whatever doesn't kill me... makes me get off my lazy butt and be a GENIUS again for a month or six.

Tedious and repetitive, it is!)

Anyway, here's one of my old 'quick favorites' that I used to make when:
1: someone was coming by for supper,
2: I didn't want them to realize that I normally subsisted on cold canned goods and warm beer, and
3:I only had $3 for fresh ingredients (I suppose it might cost $10 for fresh mushrooms and a pint of cream these days, after 8 years of GWB)

Anyway: It ain't a soup, but it's tasty and looks impressive if you arrange it nicely:

Dick's Flat-noodle Mushroom Parmesan.

1/2 lb fresh mushrooms (sliced)
1/2 pint cream
1/2 package of those big wide cheapass egg-noodles
1 can "Cream of Mushroom" soup (Cambell's makes a "CoM with Roasted Garlic"
these days- It's the best for this!)
Water
Butter
spices
2 pots, 1 lid
Cheapass plastic can of grated parmesan cheese.

Put 2 cups of hot water in 1 pot and turn heat to HIGH, add a level spoonful of salt.

Melt 1/3rd a stick or so of butter in the pot that your lid best fits, toss in the fresh mushrooms and a dash or two of your spices.

(If you know how to use spices, you need no advice frome me here.

If you know nothing about spices, toss in two big pinches of salt, and a smaller pinch of any spice you have that is green/dark green and flakey, not powdery)

Cover that pot, turn heat to LOW....

When water in the first pot boils, add cream and wait...when it boils again, add noodles & Condensed soup; reduce heat to "medium", and simmer it for 10-15 minutes or until noodles are tender, shaking parmesan cheese into the mess

if it still looks watery after 8 minutes or so......

Scoop out a plateful of the noodle/cream sauce mixture, then cover it with a layer of the seasoned mushrooms which have been steam-cooked in their own juices while you were stirring that noodle/sauce mix.

And Grandma with the diverted intestine, giving her usual common-sensical advice:

hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-28-08 07:25 PM
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5. Feel free to use anything I've posted, too.

But quite frankly, the more I look at recipes (and I look at them alot!) I find very little that is copyrightable. They are all variations on the same theme. In the many food blogs, the folks there also use recipes from well-known chefs and bakers but they also give credit and, I'm not sure about this part, but I think if they post it on the internet free I'm guessing you can use it and link to original site. Many food blogs are made up of someone relating their experience at making the recipes, so there is that.

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dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 05:06 PM
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3. You know the type of thing I mean: Your beloved sweetie of 9 years joins a cult, invites 5 carloads of Cops over to help kick you out onto the street with nothing but 3 cigarettes and a thick set of bruises to your name, and you end up hiding out 3 states away in the basement of some old school chums whom you hope you NEVER mentioned to her, because she's got 30 fanatical loons scouring the planet looking for more ways to cause TROUBLE for you?

Hell of a recipe.  

On a positive note, it's soup season!  Yes!!  (Or stew, if you're into that kind of thing.  You perverts.)

It's starting to get chilly here.  I just turned on the heat.

[Wineslob]

dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 05:06 PM
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3. "Cook-with-a-can-of-soup", you say? I may be able to contribute more than I imagined.

I'm currently in the midst of one of those "reversals of fortune" that we all experience from time to time.

You know the type of thing I mean: Your beloved sweetie of 9 years joins a cult, invites 5 carloads of Cops over to help kick you out onto the street with nothing but 3 cigarettes and a thick set of bruises to your name, and you end up hiding out 3 states away in the basement of some old school chums whom you hope you NEVER mentioned to her, because she's got 30 fanatical loons scouring the planet looking for more ways to cause TROUBLE for you?

Yeah, we've all been there. And "there" involves a lot of food that comes out of CANS...so I'm working alot of my magick with simple, easy-to-make ideas right now.

Synchronicity rules.

Shitty bouncy, I'll fix it:

dicksteele  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 05:06 PM
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3. "Cook-with-a-can-of-soup", you say? I may be able to contribute more than I imagined.

 SO, I'm currently in the midst of one of those "reversals of fortune" that we all experience from time to time.

You know the type of thing I mean: Your beloved sweetie of 9 years leaves the cult, invites 5 carloads of Cops over that jump out of the bushes in front of your home to help kick you out onto the street with nothing but 3 cigarettes, a bag of Cheetos, a crappy laptop and a thick set of bruises to your name, and you end up hiding out 3 states away in the basement of some old school chums whom you hope you NEVER mentioned to her, playing Everquest till all hours, all because she's got 30 fanatical loons scouring the planet looking for more ways to cause TROUBLE for you? I can't hook up with ANYONE in that damn game!!!!
DAMN THIS **** ECONOMY!!!!!!!
Yeah, we've all been there. And "there" involves a lot of food that comes out of TRASH CANS...so I'm working alot of my magick with my simple, easy-baked ideas right now. You would be amazed how many meals can be made with pot.

chronic rules.