Soups For Promoting Good Health Part2

Soups are so delicious that even kids and toddlers enjoy same.

Provide you enriched it with their favorite vegetables plus fish or meat or both as we noted in part1.

I remember my nine months old babe watching me enjoying my plate of chop soup, a yam pepper soup, sauced with basil leaves and sardines.

I offer only a watery liquid as a gift to her. She opened her mouth and took same. It delights her to ask for more. Again, I gave less than half a teaspoonful of the soup. The peppery spice hit her mind and I gave some water.

Till then, she had been taking here a little and there a little.

This is how we should all introduced our little ones to whatever we eat; instead of breastfeeding them over a year or two, then introducing solid foods to them.

This can have an adverse effect like allergy on them.

Now, I have a five year old girl too. She likes soups all the while. Give her a soup to eat with rice or yam, and if you do not mind, she will used up the soup, instead of finishing it with the chop of rice.

This is also my weakness when it comes to eating yam or plantain pepper soup meals.

I will devour the soup first with the onions and basil leaves before anything else. In fact, the whole plate of soup will go down my throat and I will ask for a second helping. It is with this that I go with the yam or plantain.

A warm plate of pepper soup can be cherished by adding half a teaspoonful of dried ginger powder. 

This is a booster to stimulate the digestive, excretory, respiratory and immune systems.

Vegetable Soups

Soups and there sources differ all over the world.

Some soups are made with only vegetables. I mean these were cooked without any fish, or sea food, or meat. In other words, no animal products ever enter the pot.

Legumes, like beans are the main ingredients. Pepper, spices, oils, leafy greens are add. At most three or four kinds of bean in place of fish or meat is required. The various beans complement one another to give a protein of first class status. Otherwise, disease is the result.

Soups InVarious Regions Of The World

When it comes to regions of the world, many varieties of soups can contain differing ingredients. The puree or thickness even differs. Seeds, nuts, fruits, and sometimes butter, milk, wine, and eggs are included. Some soups contain carrots, coconuts, cucumbers, water melon or sweet melon. You never can tell how soups go with many harvest of nature.

Mushrooms are many favorite in these type of varieties.

Canned Soups

For convenient sake, some popular soups were canned for export and domestic consumption in the exporting countries. These are sold all over the world. The prices are fair. One just opened a can and warmed it in a pot; or you warm it in a micro oven and enjoy.

With some, you can add any fresh ingredient like milk, fish, meat, or anything that fancy your preferences.

Soups are very popular meals everywhere. It connotes health.

Did you know that the word soup is the same as restaurant? It comes from the French word soupe, which originates from the latin word suppra.

It means restoring something. It refers to a concentrate that is an antitode to bodily exhaustion.

In the 16^th century when fruit juices were getting on stream, soups had already made vital marks. 

They were being marketed and seems more popular and cheaper than juices to get anywhere. They energized the body more than lemonades, which are the first bottled juices and is costly, being first imported from the Middle East.

Orange juices came late, where soup already is king.

Jean Baptiste, a French nobleman who flees from the French Revolution to Boston (USA) is credit to opening a restaurant and named it “The Restorator.”

He thus became famous with the title “The Prince of Soup.”

A plate of soup is a good energy and health restorer.

To your good health!

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Soups For Promoting Good Health Part1

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A soup is any thin or thick liquid made with fish, meat, green leafy vegetables, herbs, spices, and with carbohydrates. Some soups have fresh tomato paste as its carb part. I cherish this with fresh or dried sardines.

The carbs provide the thick consistency in nearly most pots of soups. These can be any carbs from root vegetables-yams, cocoyams, potatos; seeds and pods like melon and okra.

Some even contained peanuts as a thick consistency. I like this as a soup stew to eat yams and plantains. It provided me with the much energy I ever need.

A soup is essentially a meal. It can be taken alone or enjoyed over a plate of rice or yam.

Soups contain all the food group listed-carbs, fats and oils, proteins, greens, herbs and spices. A soup is completed in itself as a meal. It needs no supplements. But it is nearly and always followed with a carb or a glass of wine or any drink.

As such, it contained all the factors that our body need for nourishment. That is why it should be prepared with much care.

Soups provide energy plus all that the body need for growing, and repair of worn out and repair of damaged tissues, cells and muscles.

A plate of nice delicious and nutritious soup is like a dope of medicine and can subdue fever, cough, cold or flu and hemorrhold or anal bleeding and can elevated good health.

Pepper Soups

As a boy and a young man, I regularly prepared green leafy pepper soup daily with dried fish. The greens usually come from basil or pumpkins. I do not take it with any meals because I just want to enjoy nature’s greens, vitality my body and contained my weigh.

You see any green leafy vegetable is very low in carbs. These will never make you put on a pond of weight.

Okay, let’s get to review a plate or two of soup.

A pepper soup is usually a thin broth. It can contain fish or meat, or both plus herbs and spices. Some adds a little green like mint, basil or any of their favorite greens.

The type of pepper you one wants depends on a factor or two.

Either, you want to savor it just like any ordinary meal. Or you want it as a dope to treat an ill-health.

Have you had an attack of a fever or cold? I do as a boy. Did grandmother recommend a soup when medication failed in time to relief you of the flu? Old wives remedies, via a plate of soup always work to gain back good health here.

I remember this as a boy of 11 years. I had a bout of high fever. Although I had my prescription from a good pharmacy, it failed or I’d say it needs a booster. The old women advise a warm plate of basil soup. I took the remedy and got better. This has since become a part of my kitchen pots. Whether I am sick or not, and I hardly get sick these days, I made a plate of basil soup for me, and if my family wants a share, all the best to them.

Let me say something here. I am a good jogger. I jog to keep fit. On my returns, guest what I had? A wonderful plate of basil pepper soup with sardines over oiled plantain. I use over two cups of the green here. Such a nice stuff for health promotion.

This plate is the main meal. But a fresh orange or two plus a stalk of sugar cane is for refreshment before the meal some thirty minutes later. You see I take a serious step here to replace my lost energy with the orange and sugar cane.

The rule is that energy lost is to be replaced in time.

Thick Soups

Again, if you are not in any wise sick, you can still enjoy a delicious plate of soup. I like it much with fish and meat.

 In Africa, they are many ethnic groups that cherish soups with a plate of carbohydrate meal.

Ground cassava or guinea corn made with boiling water is such a meal. Some use it with pound yams or plantain. In the case of the guinea corn, the grounded flour is cooked in a pot for over 10 to 15 minutes and this is eaten with the soup. It provided the much energy need for muscular work than a plate of rice meal with stew as a lunch or supper.

I like my thick soups with dried mullets, sardines and fresh cow meat. On certain occasions, I’d like to add some stock fish, especially a share or half a part of the head. The thicken ingredient here can be grounded melon seeds. This made the soup taste much better and nicer. Greens can come in any form with the exception of basil leaves because it does not impact any flavor in thick soup.

In a broth like this, okra or any other carb ingredient to thick the soup can replace melons.

Tilapia Kitchen

Tilapia spices were very common in making pepper soups. The thin types have a lot of soft bones and these provide health benefit for the human bones. These are easily chewed and are absorbed into the blood stream.

Tilapia is an excellent fish that develops and build a strong sturdy body like any other fish. The red variety has thickness of flesh more than the dark types. The red it seems has less bone than the black spices. Or their bones seem to be compact that it did not give any hassle during a meal. One can easily pick the flesh out.

Tilapia is mostly cooked with fresh red tomatoes, fresh chili pepper and basil leaves and eaten over a plate of rice.

In my place, small bars or public eating places made the soup for sale to hungry customers. The price depending on the variety can be princely. It was a joy over wine.

Tilapia is found mostly in African, Asia and the Biblical lands or Israel.

A plate of soup a day is dope of good health benefit for all your body system.

To Your good health!

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