what should I have for dinner?

[XzanderX]

I was thinking soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.


and other suggestions or should I just go with that?

 

[avi]

but what kind of soup?

 

[XzanderX]

I don't know really... I really want cream of crab, but there is no why I can get a good cream of crab any where in stuttgart. so I would probably go for a tomato or asparagus soup.

 

[avi]

tomato soup would work well with grilled cheese.

this gets the avi seal of approval.

 

[XzanderX]

ok I'm going then... tomato soup it is!

 

[FrostGiant]

Frozen Pizza!
Raman Noodles!
Mac & Cheese!


And if you don't have tomato soup you can just boil some water and squirt ketchup (catsup) in it. It's the same thing.

 

[chupe666]

Something that never made sense to me:

how they can make all these "Cream of" soups out of things that have no cream in them. Cream of Crab? I don't think crabs have cream in them, and if they did, I probably wouldn't want to eat it.

Cream of :
Tomato?
Mushroom?
Onion?
Crab?
Cream?
the Crop?
Crap?

 

[xfer]

ANY soup with cream or milk in it SUCKS. i hereby decree this, no argument allowed.

 

[avi]

you can make 'cream of...' soup with potato. No need for dairy.

 

[chupe666]

KPLZEXPLAINHOWCUZIDON'TGETITKTHX

 

[avi]

it has to do with consistency, not presence of actual cream.

 

[chupe666]

I was totally just looking for a picture of the soup, but check the ingredients!

Although we all know Campbell's is not really soup. It's crapinacan.

 

[RealmArchitect]

so, what kind of cheese would you be using? bread? for the sandwich of coarse.

 

[xfer]

well, like when you make rhode island clam chowder (clear broth, no dairy), you can get the broth thicker by cooking the potatoes very long, or beating them up a little, so the starch thickens the clammy water...

 

[The Dope]

Same with Hatteras-style chowder, also a clear broth, which I prefer in the first place.

 

[avi]

Originally posted by xfer
well, like when you make rhode island clam chowder (clear broth, no dairy), you can get the broth thicker by cooking the potatoes very long, or beating them up a little, so the starch thickens the clammy water...

that's what I was saying

 

[xfer]

How does Hatteras differ from Rhode Island-style?

 

[The Dope]

I don't think I've had Rhode Island style, so i couldn't really say. They sound pretty similar though. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some restaurants in the Hatteras area just decided to rip off Rhode Island style and call it Hatteras.

 

[minxnim]

everything out of RI is all wonky and messed up.

 

[xfer]

The wonkiest and messed-up thing is when I was looking for a Rhode Island chowder recipe variant on the web, a lot of the returned results were the Governor of Rhode Island's official version. Nice, but the recipes had cream in them and were thus New England-style. BLECH.