My family loves soup. Don’t you? We love all kinds of soup. It can be clear soup or thick soup. It can be cream soup or Sinigang (Sour soup) or Chinese soup or Japanese soup or Filipino soup… Of course a soup can be comforting on a rainy wet day. Do you find it wierd that we also love to have hot soups in the middle of summer? But we do love soup regardless of the weather! I’m sure almost every Filipino and Chinese have one kind of soup or another with all their meals, rain or shine. We do not consider the soup as a mere starter. For us, the soup itself is already a viand (ulam). We spoon the soup over our rice and eat the contents - usually meat and veggies (laman) with our rice.
Here is another easy to do, nutritious thick soup. Need I mention it is flavorful and yummy?
200 gms fresh shrimp meat, chopped
300 gms fresh fish fillet, cut into small cubes
5 pcs kani sticks, cut
a bunch of chinese spinach (polunchay), washed, cho…
Now let me just say, soup is the best ever invent-something-and-pray-it-turns-out things, along with stew. But I do have to say, Straight From The Farm inspired the base stuff for a good soup.
Before I declare this soup a work of sheer brilliance, it didn't necessarily go down amazingly well with Clare and Pip. Clare thought this might be because of the stock we used (which was vege), so you could try using chicken stock, but I thought it was delish.