Winter and soup (talvi ja keitto)...

[AldenG]

Cod, salmon, diced tomatoes, water, chablis, vinegar, baby lima beans, rice, yellow corn, then fennel or mixed italian seasonings. It's a pale, translucent, tomato-thin base similar to chaudrée in the Canadian Maritimes with light seasoning.

Also crab claws, clams or mussels in shell, salmon, shrimp, cod, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, chablis, vinegar,lemon juice, yellow corn, sometimes rice, then basil, cayenne and white pepper. A version of cioppino.

Also beef cubes, sauteed onions, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, burgundy, vinegar, green beans, mushrooms, baby lima beans, rice, yellow corn, pepper, mixed italian seasonings. It's an opaque, tomato-thick base.

[tuulen]

PS. Tuulen i thought you would eat pea soup more often when i look your nick

OMG! Are you saying that pea soup makes wind?

Yes it does, and smell too. In army friday morning ment that air was so thick you almost had to cut your way out of room...
You probably knew that your nick can be red as "i wind" and only way you can "wind" is...

I was in army, US Army, but I know just what you mean about a bunch of guys living in close quarters with each other.

Everybody gets to know each other very well, and that is part of what makes army a team, to work together.

However, the Saami sometimes wear a four-pointed hat, a hat of the four winds, and that is where I took my nick from.

Edit: The Internet, after all, is a means of communicating by an electronic "wind". So, I am "of the wind", tuulen.

[tuulen]

Cod, salmon, diced tomatoes, water, chablis, vinegar, baby lima beans, rice, yellow corn, then fennel or mixed italian seasonings. It's a pale, translucent, tomato-thin base similar to chaudrée in the Canadian Maritimes with light seasoning.

Also crab claws, clams or mussels in shell, salmon, shrimp, cod, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, chablis, vinegar,lemon juice, yellow corn, sometimes rice, then basil, cayenne and white pepper. A version of cioppino.

Also beef cubes, sauteed onions, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, burgundy, vinegar, green beans, mushrooms, baby lima beans, rice, yellow corn, pepper, mixed italian seasonings. It's an opaque, tomato-thick base.

Mmm! Sounds good! Now, all you need to do is to package those recipies into a can, and perhaps commercial success could be yours!

[Karhunkoski]

Well... Creamy clam chowder

I read that first as "Creamy clam powder", made me howl that did, thanks!

[Pursuivant]

I do a lot of miso soup - makes me a misogynist

[Halldor K]

Yes it does, and smell too. In army friday morning ment that air was so thick you almost had to cut your way out of room...

Image French Foreign Legions barracks rooms after serving French Onion soup in the mess...

Then imagine joint French-Finnish training field operations

hahaha there is only so much the human mind is capable of withstanding!

[luulio]

My latest favourite is sweet potato & ginger soup. Spicy and comforting in the cold!

[AldenG]

I forgot to mention the bay leaves.

[tuulen]

My latest favourite is sweet potato & ginger soup. Spicy and comforting in the cold!

Hmm? I have not tried that combination yet, but I do like sweet potato, and I do like ginger.

How much sweet potato, and how much ginger?

Any other ingredients?

[sammy]

Seljanka fish soup with mushrooms, capers and Russian pickled cucumber (is that suolakurkku?) - with a bit of smetana of course *drool*

I also quite like the Portuguese Caldo Verde.

[JuliaB]

Making Sunchoke soup right now.

Shallots, sunckokes, turkey stock, bay leayes and cream. It sure smells good already, can't wait to eat it.

[tuulen]

I like many kinds of seasonings and spices, but if I could have only one of them it would be black pepper. Now, this is my home area where I now have several centimeters of wet snow recently, and the cold damp weather is still here, if only a degree or two below freezing. This is the weather when I like soup the most, and so I made a big potful today, including a whole chicken, lots of vegetables, and plenty of black pepper, mmm!

[CarmenfromTexas]

Any time of year but especially in the winter time, my family and I love Leek Soup. There is some tomato, rice, and milk in the soup and it takes a while to saute the leeks until they are soft but it's very much worth the effort.

Soup is great comfort food.

[Pursuivant]

Annoyed by the can of mussels dropping out the third time now, I decided of buying some spinach and fresh "sweet" chillies so tomorrows -20 will be confronted with a potful of "kalaluu" or "callalloo" ... a slightly "finnischized" recipe as I can't be arsed to go find okra, but I think my version works in the cold...

[Cloudberry]

My mum used to make the best cabbage soup. I'd have to say that makkara soup, milky fish soup, pea soup and cabbage soup are my favs. Is there a Finnish soup cookbook?