It’s split pea or ham and potato for me.
In my mind, soup is just a technique that’s really about the stock. This is just me suggesting that you all should adopt traditional French cooking technique.
For me, it’s saving old chicken scraps and certain veggies and then cooking them until they are mush in water. Grocery store rotisserie chicken skin, bones, and juice; carrots, onions, celery, garlic. Anything getting past it’s prime. No brassicas though. I’ll throw a t bone in there, but while really good beef broth is amazing, good beef bones cost as much as real beef.
Clam juice or shrimp/crab/lobster shells sauteed in butter with water (or the aforementioned stock…) Is also awesome.
Once you’ve got that, just put anything in it. That’s good soup.
Make sure that you put the correct amount of salt in it. If there’s no salt, stock tastes terrible.
"Slavic soup" - a potato cream with bits of sausage and/or meat
Usage of soy sauce and the name hint me that this is a local (Paraná) adaptation of some Polish soup brought with the immigrants. Lovage and chives are my own take on it. 2 servings.
Sour cream can be made at home by mixing a cup of 20% fat milk cream with 1 Tbsp of yoghurt, and leaving it to ferment for ~12h at room temp. You can also use unsoured cream “as is”, if you want - it’s up to you.
cock-a-leek - chicken with leeks, rice, and carrots
I got this Scottish recipe from a site, tweaked it to my tastes, and here it is.
If you don’t have a pressure cooker, just simmer the chicken and leek leaves for 1h20min instead on step 1.
Other soups that I’ll share as requested: