semi-solid foods

@ossobuco,

Smoothies are definitely good.

Hmm soups of course, but salt might not be pleasant if there are any cuts in the throat. Pudding could be good. Boiled chicken, the kind that's really falling off the bone. Mushy peas.

Thanks for reviving the topic.

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@jespah,

Biscuit's Pureed Soup Diary...

This one is great Green Bean Soup with Lemon Chive Butter, a la Wonka

Biscuit's intro ...

Quote:

Do not be fooled - while the ingredients to this soup sound boring and ordinary, it is ANYTHING but ordinary! It is absolutely delicious and fresh and wonderful. As good cold as hot, although if you make it cold, make a little lemon-sour cream to top it with and a sprinkle of chives instead of the lemon-chive-butter. Simple enough for a light summer meal; elegant enough for a first course of a dinner.

Simple to make (half-hour, tops), easy to make ahead, and if you make it to serve to someone sick who needs extra calories, feel free to stir in cream, half-and-half and/or whole milk yogurt to fatten it up.

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@ehBeth,

there's also a great tomato fennel soup there that I've made, and a zucchini-buttermilk one that I haven't (but am still mulling over)

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@ehBeth,

Salt in soup... you know how many years since I've bought soup in a can? But, soup in a can seems easiest for the person who can't get it up for cooking on one day or another. So, what are the best soups from a can?

(I lied, I think I did buy some expensivo lobster bisque in a can at my thoughtful-market, i.e., keller's.)

Mmm, zucchini buttermilk?

Not knowing the recipe but thinking, blender, do you have a blender, Roberta?

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@ossobuco,

Sorry, that should have been, Jespah...

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@ossobuco,

But, anyway, I'm a fan of broths - packaged broths.

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@jespah,

Potato soups, cold or hot or warm?

I'd a friend/colleague who was quite invested in potato soups, with, cauliflower, broccoli, well, lots of stuff.

Hard to eat what you have to and doesn't taste good.

Hmmm, remembering the major soup from whatshername... potato sorrel. Jane Grigson.

Back later.

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@ossobuco,

I was thinking about potato soup for Miss Robbie - sorta latke-comfort-foody if some grated onion went into the prep of it. It can be pepped up easily with other veggies that can also be blended in. My fav potato soup recipe came from Diet for a Small Planet, back in the day.

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Many years ago while attending to my mom after one of her hospitalizations she could only eat liquids and very semi-soft foods for several weeks.

I came up with a few homemade concoctions such as eggnogs, overcooked and very runny rice puddings, fruit sorbets and pulverized mild veggie soups for her to eat with a wide straw. They gave her the needed nutritional values for healing while still being tender to her body. One of those hand blender wands will come in very handy for such things.

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@Butrflynet,

Oy, but maybe..

a hand blender wand thing.

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@ossobuco,

Didn't mean to dump on that, butryfly. Got clogged in the posting system.

That wand might be real useful.

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@ossobuco,

We love ours. Second greatest kitchen gadget we own (first being the slow cooker). Cheap, too -- I doubt they cost more than maybe $30 unless you want to get super-ultra shmancy.

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