I will make vegetarian borscht (hot, chunky with beets and cabbage) and top each bowl with optional yogurt, drizzled on in the shape of a heart.

I am thinking about Persian Pomegranate Soup. I'm making a trial run this weekend to make sure it is tasty and not just red (in support of love, lust, hate. )

This one has meat, so not doing vegan as in years past.

Sounds great ladies!! Still pondering my entry but it will not be veg.

Been researching the ingredients of "love" and was actually surprised at some of the purported properties of various items. So in honor of the multitude of foods and spices that can get you where you want to go, so to speak, I'm going to make Aphrodisiac Soup--Tomato, onion, garlic & rosemary roasted in red wine and olive oil, topped with ginger glazed bacon & toasted chili-dusted pine nuts. 10 super-charged ingredients. I take no responsibility for the result.

Due to some last minute work travel I have to drop out of making soup. I'll be back just in time to come and eat and donate.

Made my pork stock today. Smells goooooood!

One spot open now if anyone wants to join us. Or we can just have 7 soups which is plenty. But room for one more if anyone is interested.

I'm not 100% certain my soup will be vegan. If there's someone who knows and can weigh in, please do. It will certainly be vegetarian.

Recipe on http://allrecipes.com/recipe/russian-cabbage-borscht/

I plan to use oil or vegan marg. instead of butter and agave instead of honey, and the yogurt drizzle will be optional

Thanks!

leek- with the subs you mention and a hold on your drizzle you will be vegan.

irisarbor wrote:leek- with the subs you mention and a hold on your drizzle you will be vegan.

Super, thanks for checking for me!

I'm not totally sure yet, but I'm thinking my soup might be Haejangguk. I'm not sure what it has to do with the theme. It is a hangover cure, and everyone hates hangovers. Also there is blood in it! blood-heart-love? seems to add up to me. It's one of the first Korean dishes I learned to make while working in a korean owned restaurant, and also what got me interested in cooking and korean food. It would be a fun thing to offer since it is hard to find in the city, and certainly hard to find a decent version.

Sounds great--was really hoping someone would do something with blood, given the theme!

laikom wrote:I'm not totally sure yet, but I'm thinking my soup might be Haejangguk. I'm not sure what it has to do with the theme. It is a hangover cure, and everyone hates hangovers. Also there is blood in it! blood-heart-love? seems to add up to me. It's one of the first Korean dishes I learned to make while working in a korean owned restaurant, and also what got me interested in cooking and korean food. It would be a fun thing to offer since it is hard to find in the city, and certainly hard to find a decent version.

If you make it, I will definitely show up to try this.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

laikom wrote:I'm not totally sure yet, but I'm thinking my soup might be Haejangguk. I'm not sure what it has to do with the theme. It is a hangover cure, and everyone hates hangovers. Also there is blood in it! blood-heart-love? seems to add up to me. It's one of the first Korean dishes I learned to make while working in a korean owned restaurant, and also what got me interested in cooking and korean food. It would be a fun thing to offer since it is hard to find in the city, and certainly hard to find a decent version.

If you make it, I will definitely show up to try this.

Regards,

You have a deal, see you there!

Cathy--we do have one last soup spot left--feeling inspired???

boudreaulicious wrote:Cathy--we do have one last soup spot left--feeling inspired???

Do soup instead of bread? Yeah, why not. Leaning toward Hungarian mushroom soup presently, though I may do something else.

Regards,

Thanks Cathy--the mushroom soup sounds delicious!!

Cathy2 wrote:

boudreaulicious wrote:Cathy--we do have one last soup spot left--feeling inspired???

Do soup instead of bread? Yeah, why not. Leaning toward Hungarian mushroom soup presently, though I may do something else.

Regards,

If you need more bread, I can do bread and dessert. I make pretty good corn bread.

I'm sure anything anyone wants to make will be devoured! Thanks to all of our volunteers--now we just need to get a BIG turnout of eaters.

I will not be able to make soup for this event. My oven/stove is not working and I am told I need parts/reschedule next week. So sorry to bail and for the late notice.

No problem Wendy--sorry about your stove! Hope you'll still come out to the event.

Anyone else want to step in?

I'm in! I think I'll make a Vietnamese Rice Soup (Chao) with an optional beef heart meatball garnish.

YAY!!!! That sounds DELICIOUS!! Is the recipe, minus the beef heart ball, vegan or vegetarian? Doesn't need to be--just keeping track of which are or aren't!

Jen, the chao will be chicken stock based.

Excellent--thanks!!

trixie-pea wrote:I'm in! I think I'll make a Vietnamese Rice Soup (Chao) with an optional beef heart meatball garnish.

I know there are people who get weird about variety meats, though ground heart is like lean hamburger. If you simply said meatball without heart, I think almost all meat eaters would take it. Add the word 'heart,' then suddenly they are picky.

I look forward to eating this soup with the meatball, whether it is make from heart or not!

Regards,

Cathy--hopefully we will have an adventurous crowd there next week! I will need to add other things (mostly fat) to my heartball because heartmeat alone would be too lean for a meatball. And really since the heartball is just a concession to the theme, it's possible that I do a test run and decide instead to just make a regular ol' meatball spiced with ginger, garlic and lemongrass. Or maybe a heart-shaped meatball.

Looking forward to your mushroom soup, if that's what it ends up being!

trixie-pea wrote:Cathy--hopefully we will have an adventurous crowd there next week! I will need to add other things (mostly fat) to my heartball because heartmeat alone would be too lean for a meatball. And really since the heartball is just a concession to the theme, it's possible that I do a test run and decide instead to just make a regular ol' meatball spiced with ginger, garlic and lemongrass. Or maybe a heart-shaped meatball.

Looking forward to your mushroom soup, if that's what it ends up being!

Personally, I really hope you make heartballs---especially since people can just leave them off if they are too timid to try them. Heart is so delicious--I was nervous about eating it at first--one of probably 100 things I've tried and love because of LTH!

trixie-pea,

I do look forward to the heartball. If it works to your satisfaction, I know they will be delicious!

Next week is coming fast! Let's hope our almost every few days snowstorm pattern is a non-snow day that day.

Regards,

It will be a meatball soup kinda night
I did a test run of the Wedding soup and it turned out delicious
A chicken stock w meatballs made from ground turkey and turkey sausage.
However it was really daunting/exhausting making so many tiny little meatballs for just our family-
which made about maybe 1 gallon of soup.
I may swing by the local italian marts to see if there are any pre-made tiny meatballs available
or at least hit up sur la table for an itty bitty scoop.

Sounds delicious!!