The Infinite Joy of Flexible Soups

I mean, they're ENDLESS

Ciorba soup in Romania. Image by the author.

I’m in the land of soup, and I don’t hate it.

Here in Romania, it’s called ciorba and it’s everywhere. I’ve been chowing down on Hungarian-style goulash, chicken soup with semolina dumplings and soups packed full of beans, vegetables and potatoes. I’ve avoided the tripe soup (too rich for my blood I’m afraid) but pretty much everything else goes straight in my gob.

It’s March which means in much of the northern hemisphere, soup is still very much on the menu. And there probably isn’t a more Capsule Pantry-friendly type of dish.

It’s just so flexible.

Mark Bittman recently wrote The Four Truths of Easy, Flexible Soups and point number one was:

You’ve already got whatever you need.

That’s especially true if your pantry roughly follows TCP storecupboard list.

So. It’s time to tackle soups, TCP-style.

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