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    Post #1 - March 16th, 2009, 12:04 pm
    Post #1 - March 16th, 2009, 12:04 pm Post #1 - March 16th, 2009, 12:04 pm
    Victory's Banner, in Roscoe Village, has the most phenomenal soup, and I've been trying to track down a recipe for the Moroccan tomato soup with peanuts and chile. I poked around online and tried different recipes that sound like they might work, but nothing's been a respectable replacement. Has anyone tried this soup? If so, do you have a comparable recipe?
    In related questions: the servers there will never give up the recipe, but one told me that there's a Victory's Banner soup cookbook floating around out there, long out of print. Does anyone have this (apocryphal?) cookbook? Would you take my firstborn?
  • Post #2 - March 16th, 2009, 12:26 pm
    Post #2 - March 16th, 2009, 12:26 pm Post #2 - March 16th, 2009, 12:26 pm
    A bit of Googling didn't turn up any leads on the cookbook or the tomato soup recipe...but maybe this recipe for Victory Banner's upama w/ coconut chutney will tide you over temporarily:

    http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=cp&cp.submit.recipeDetail=1&cp.recipeID=124
  • Post #3 - March 16th, 2009, 1:28 pm
    Post #3 - March 16th, 2009, 1:28 pm Post #3 - March 16th, 2009, 1:28 pm
    Thanks! I've never ordered that; now that I've got the recipe, I might have to.
  • Post #4 - March 16th, 2009, 6:40 pm
    Post #4 - March 16th, 2009, 6:40 pm Post #4 - March 16th, 2009, 6:40 pm
    The problem with trying to find exact recipes for any dish in any cuisine is that dishes in every traditional cuisine in the world vary from cook to cook, sometimes dramatically. I've been to Morocco, and the entire time we were there, we had only two different soups -- by name -- but no two were ever alike, except in some key ingredient (noodles or tomatoes or such). So unless you're friends with the cook, you never do find "the recipe." So get a few serious foodie friends to try the soup with you and compare notes on the components and spices you notice, then try to recreate it. Because unless you get the recipe from that restaurant, you won't ever find the same recipe.
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  • Post #5 - March 17th, 2009, 7:51 am
    Post #5 - March 17th, 2009, 7:51 am Post #5 - March 17th, 2009, 7:51 am
    I know. That's why I asked for feedback from people who have also tried the soup. I haven't been able to tap into what all is in there myself, so I thought I'd see if anyone else had my same obsession and had cracked the code. Oh, well!

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