water-based soups

Almost all of the soup-related entries here at F,NRS call for chicken stock. Sometimes, however, I don't have any stock on hand. This entry is meant to be an on-going record of soups that don't seem to suffer for lack of chicken stock and those that do or might.

Good with water:

• cauliflower soup using the pureed vegetable soup algorithm replacing stock with water
• lentil soup
• leek and potato, but I oversalted it (Dec. 2008)
• (Hogg say:) carrot-ginger: a bunch of carrots, a cubic inch of ginger (boil carrots and ginger with salt and blend), orange juice and cream

Bad with just water:

• chicken noodle (just kidding)
• Tuscan white bean soup, probably