Comments on: Fish Soup for Winter Dinners

By: Mimi54

Mimi54 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:12:22 +0000

Michaela, it is a great soup. You can hardly go wrong with those ingredients! Thanks for letting me know.

By: michaela

michaela — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:11:33 +0000

I have used your recipe tonight and the soup smells delicious! I am sure that this is a winner.

By: Soup Beautiful Soup » Here in HP, Highland Park, New Jersey blog

Soup Beautiful Soup » Here in HP, Highland Park, New Jersey blog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:45:06 +0000

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By: mimi54

mimi54 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:37:16 +0000

Hi, Gally,

It really makes me happy when folks tell me that one of my recipes made *them* happy. So thanks for letting me know! And in fact I think I’ll add a little heat to the soup next time, too, in the shape a tiny chili pepper. Your dinner and background music sound great, although I agree that having to shoot a rattlesnake must be disturbing. You must be having warm weather: snakes like to sun themselves.

By: Gally Moravec

Gally Moravec — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:02:05 +0000

The soup turned out wonderful. What I ended up doing is mincing up both some of the green bell and some of the red jalapeno ~ I deveined and seeded the little hot bastards first ~ and putting them in where the red bell would have gone in. It made it just a little bit hot, well, warm, rather muy poco picante like. And I cooked a bit of corn cause I was going to try putting some in the blender but ended up just putting the corn into the regular soup.
Man, it was perfect, Mimi. Your directions are so clear and easy. I was able to do it in these clear increments using the timer.
It was done when Ernest and Ralph got back with a load of wood and they loved it. I had to make the garlic bread out of Walmart hotdog buns but still, nice surprise for them, they were very happy. Did some tapioca pudding and some ice tea. I got down some country music right fast on Itunes ~ Steve Earl! One of them kind of days. I guess cause it is so weird here. A rattlesnake was right outside the back door last week and Ernest had to shoot it when he got home from Walmart, which I hated. That is, that it had to be shot. Then this morning on my walk I run across a rattler stretched out in the road. I made a sound like Curly of the Three Stooges and took off running! No need to shoot that one. On a later walk, he was gone.
Thanks for the great recipe, Mimi! The starter is bubbling away. I am going to look over your site real good before I mess with it.
Gally

By: mimi54

mimi54 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:49:31 +0000

Hi, Lorna,

I guess you’ll have started your fish soup by now. It’s fine to leave out the green pepper – or to put it in. The nice thing about this soup is that it has flexible margins. No saffron – OK! The thyme will do, and the cherry tomatoes will mellow both flavor and color. Jalapenos? Sounds good to me. Let me know how it turned out… and when you bake with your new starter, too.

By: Gally Moravec

Gally Moravec — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:25:11 +0000

Ok, in about an hour I want to start on this fish soup. Here is what I got: a pound of cod, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, parsley, bay leaf, fresh thyme, salt, black pepper, eight cherry tomatoes, one fourth of a big old dark green bell pepper, and any number of small red ripe jalapenos. No saffron. But once one of my no good ex husbands stole some for me. I think he traded it for some weed though.
Anyway, what about this pepper, Mimi? Do I need to leave out the green bell entirely and just put a shredded jalapeno in there the last ten minutes? Jalapenos are about as big as the last joint of my thumb.
I hope you get to answer this in the next 45 minutes, but if not, I will still be glad to get your slant on this cause it will make it better the next time.
Oh! My starter was doing heavenly based on your instructions. But what I did with it was a disaster. Best not dwell on it.
But I started a new one today!
Thanks ~
Gally

By: Here in HP, a Highland Park, New Jersey blog » Recipes for Pesach

Here in HP, a Highland Park, New Jersey blog » Recipes for Pesach — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:55:48 +0000

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By: mimi54

mimi54 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:17:06 +0000

Your Leora-like way is the best way to go. All your substitutes make sense to combine with fish, and I’ll bet your soup was great. I’m really glad you and your family enjoyed.

Lucky you…I could never get thyme to grow for me.

By: Leora

Leora — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:26:41 +0000

I finally made this fish soup. It was DEE-licious. We basically ate it for supper.

Of course, in my Leora-like way, I substituted, because I didn’t have all the ingredients. I have no saffron (I don’t even see it for sale here), so I used turmeric. I didn’t have a leek, so I used some leftover cabbage and some collard greens at the end. Tomatoes in winter here are like plastic, so I used some canned tomatoes. And I didn’t have a bell pepper, but the canned tomatoes and turmeric gave it plenty of color.

I grow thyme on the edge of my sidewalk, so fresh thyme was just a matter of going out the front door and grabbing a bunch.