Ahhhh..Soup weather.

Love the cool nights and September days. It is the time of year I kick the soup habit into high. Nothin like a good soup and sandwich meal after working on or driving tractor. What are some of your favorites? Mine hands down is venison vegetable.

Ham and split pea.

My wife conjurs up the best chili soup I've ever had and she made a big pot of it couple days ago! Too bad we can't share taste tests.

My favorite is my Grandpa's hamburger soup recipe. It's a bit like chili, but more... soupy.

Chicken & rice cooked the old fashion way,Throw the carcas into the pot and cook it off the bone with some of the bones left in.Us kids would try to get the wish bone.

jimmy

Local eatery has something they call "Stuffed Pepper Soup". Don"t know if it is original to them, but think of the ingredients used in Stuffed peppers (hamburger, rice, etc.), but in soup form. Really tasty. I just googled it and found several variations. Might have to go to the store and make a batch.

Kirk

Weather has finally started to cool off here in Tx.

Friday it was 104, Sat 83, and upper 60s at night. Yay!

Chili or bean soup with ham.

Larry

My homemade steak/vegatable soup with dumplings hard as rock in it. When you eat them, they almost "thump" when they hit your stomach.

wifes vegetable soup, or her corn chowder, or potatoe soup, guess like all of the she makes

Sure would like that recipe. Heck, lets post em all to a yt cookbook.

Wifey made apple dumplings without me even asking. Meanwhile I put the breadmachine to work.

Mark,

Here is the recipe. Enjoy! ~ SweetFeet ~

STEAK SOUP with ROCK DUMPLINGS & VEGETABLES
NOTE: the flour on the meat and from cooking the dumplings in the soup, make this a thicker soup similar to beef stew.

MEAT & BROTH INGREDIENTS:
Round steak (trimmed of all fat and/or membranes)
Flour
Crisco
Beef broth (lots of cans… I like low sodium so I control flavor myself)
Diced onions
Salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder

1. Heat broth in heavy-bottomed stockpot, along with diced onions—while you...
2. Slice your steak in strips about 1/4 inch thick and about 1” long. Roll strips them in flour. Brown them well in skillet with Crisco or oil. Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder.
3. Once all meat is seasoned/browned (at this point the cook and all family members should snitch a taste or two of meat, it’s good)...add meat to your heated broth. Simmer on low heat for a couple hours until meat is very tender.

4. Now mix up your dumpling batter and let it sit for a bit for the glutens to form. Recipe is at bottom-you may need to double or triple the amount depending on how large a pot of soup you are making.

VEGETABLES INGREDIENTS:
Frozen green beans
Frozen peas
Frozen corn
Shredded carrots
More diced onions (the ones added earlier will be cooked down to about nothing by now)
5. I add the vegetables to the stockpot when it is near meal time—don’t like them overcooked.
6. When vegetables are about 1/2 to 3/4 cooked, that is when I add and cook the dumplings in the soup.

ROCK DUMPLING INGREDIENTS: (they have no leavening agent-so they are SOLID):
1 cup white flour
1 egg
Enough water stirred in to make the batter a think, yet somewhat flowing consistency…*for more flavor dissolve in water: Watkin’s, or other brand, beef soup base powder for flavor
Some salt and pepper
7. Drop dumplings by tablepoon into boiling soup. Cook until done… the raw batter will sink—but as the dumplings are getting done, they will float to the top of the soup.

Thank you very much. It is on this weekends list. I am the cook for wife and 3 young kids.

Mark W,
Hope your family will like it, my family sure does.