cook soup, stew, pottage, or chowder - PEP BB food.sand.soup

This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Food Prep and Preservation


In this Badge Bit, you will make a soup or stew or pottage or chowder. Basically, you're going to be cooking food in liquid. You can do this in a pressure cooker, slow cooker, haybox cooker, or stovetop or even oven. Throw your desired ingredients in your desired liquid (tomato sauce, broth, milk) and cook it!





Here are some great permies threads about soup:
Free and Frugal Soup

Fresh Fava Soup

Vegan Pho Noodle Soup Recipe

Favourite Bone Broth Recipes (Has recipe for egg drop soup and french onion soup)

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

Nanny's Chicken and Dumplings

Portuguese Lunch--Sopa Alentejana

I find it useful to find out common seasonings.ingredient combos for a region, and use those to season my soups. The flavors are complimentary, and even if you don't have them all, they'll generally work well together:

Chicken Soup: Carrots, chicken (or other poultry), maybe peas, onions, garlic, thyme, oregano, rosemary, basil, parsley, celery/lovage, marjoram.

Asian/Pho/Chinese Soup: We can't have soy sauce, but I've found that mixing ginger, garlic, green onions (if I have them) with salt and a bit of pepper and maybe honey makes for a very nice substitute. I like to use chicken or pork or eggs as meat. Peas and carrots work well, too. So do green leafy veggies. Beef+brocoli is also a good combo.

Moraccan-style Soup: Lamb or beef, with dates/figs/apricots. Carrots and potatoes make good fillers. Cumin+cinnamon+garlic+ginger+turmeric+paprika

Mexican Style: Beef or pork or chicken. Stewed tomatoes, corn, beans, rice, peppers.  Oregano+garlic+paprika+onion+chili/cayanne pepper. Cilantro, avocado

My soup combos are NOT probably authentic, but they work together. At least, well enough for my family to enjoy eating it! I suggest looking at a bunch of recipes for what type of soup you want, and using the most common ingredients!


To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - should serve at least 2 people (leftovers!)
  - ingredients are not be pre-processed (no can-of-whatever soup or preshredded cheese, for example)
  - no microwave

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must:
  - post a rough recipe of what you put in your soup/stew/chowder/pottage
  - post a picture of you preparing some of the ingredients (chopping herbs or carrots, for example)
  - post a picture of your ingredients in their cooking vessel
  - post a picture of your finished soup!

Clarifications:
- All food prep and preservation BBs strictly prohibit plastic, teflon or aluminum touching the food at any point