I've read many versions of the Stone Soup story.
The gist is that a village is not willing to share its food. Someone started a soup using only a stone in the water. As the villagers gathered in curiousity, the cook would taste the soup and pronounce it delicious, although it would be slightly better if it contained ...an onion. One of the villagers gets caught up in the hype, and unearths an onion previously kept stashed. the next time, some carrots, and so on, til a piece of meat or a chicken is finally contributed, and the entire village shares the delicious soup, and think! It all came from a stone!
There's a telling of the story linked in this thread: Stone Curry.
The "recipe" I've made most often is onion, carrot, celery, tomato, chicken, salt, herbs, served with bread or over rice. The most fun part for kids is finding the "perfect" stone and scrubbing it clean. (I boil it in other water too, first. Bless the microwave).
What are your preferred stone soup ingredients? And do you prefer a metamorphic or igneous starter? ;)
Stone soup recipes?
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Kouign Aman
, May 03 2012 03:47 PM
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Kouign Aman
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 03:47 PM
"You dont know everything in the world! You just know how to read!" -an ah-hah! moment for 6-yr old Miss O.
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:05 PM
I prefer free range, organic stones.
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thock
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:19 PM
Sedimentary give it that nice thickening broth, though. 
Tracy
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gfweb
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 08:05 PM
Microwaving a rock could be a problem if there's water in fissures ...small bomb.
And without water no micowave heating will happen.
And without water no micowave heating will happen.
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Posted 04 May 2012 - 03:39 PM
They have to be local, sustainable rocks. Roasted with salt, a squeeze of lemon and olive oil...
It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.
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Posted 05 May 2012 - 09:14 PM
LOL, you guys are too funny.
In a serious vein, I don't really have a preferred recipe for stone soup, since to my mind, it's a soup made from left over bit of stuff that you've managed to scrounge up. That said, most of em lately feature a white chicken stock (sometimes fortified with pork bones) and sometimes a sofrito.
At the soup kitchen I volunteer at, I whipped up a stone soup from canned diced tomatoes, some left over roast pork from the day before (and the jus it leaked), and a bunch of shelled edamame donated from the local school district. The first time we ever ran out of soup, lol. Sadly, it was lightning in a bottle.
In a serious vein, I don't really have a preferred recipe for stone soup, since to my mind, it's a soup made from left over bit of stuff that you've managed to scrounge up. That said, most of em lately feature a white chicken stock (sometimes fortified with pork bones) and sometimes a sofrito.
At the soup kitchen I volunteer at, I whipped up a stone soup from canned diced tomatoes, some left over roast pork from the day before (and the jus it leaked), and a bunch of shelled edamame donated from the local school district. The first time we ever ran out of soup, lol. Sadly, it was lightning in a bottle.
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Posted 09 May 2012 - 04:27 AM
We have a fantastic local beach with perfect oval smooth stones. Maybe a seafood chowder? 
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:52 AM
We have a fantastic local beach with perfect oval smooth stones. Maybe a seafood chowder?
That is the answer.... Beach stones - Seafood soup, Field stones - Vegetable soup, what else we got ?
The great thing about barbeque is that when you get hungry 3 hours later....you can lick your fingers
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Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
"It is the government's fault, they've eaten everything."
My Webpage
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 10:30 AM
Jurassic Rock for those on a Paleo-diet?
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 01:27 AM
I only ever eat unwashed stones collected one hour before dawn by certified virgin red furred monkeys.
I'm starving.
I'm starving.
...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.
