| Soup Toppers Of course there's always crackers to put atop your soup, including the cute little oyster crackers we love to put in clam chowder. Here are a few more ideas to give your soup a little more variety and keep things fun. Chopped fresh herbs, green onions, green, red or yellow peppers finely diced. Make small dice of whatever meat is in your soup to garnish the top. Croutons - Use herb flavored stuffing croutons or make your own from day old bread or corn bread. Cut into cubes, season if desired and dry in a 350 oven for about 10 minutes or so. Goldfish crackers - Cheesy fish shaped crackers go very well with tomato soup. Chow Mein Noodles French Fried Onions - The canned variety. Add sour cream hearts to the top of your tomato soup. Add a little bit of milk to thin out the sour cream. Place several dollops in the middle of the soup and pull a toothpick through the center to form a heart shape. For a ring of hearts, put your sour cream in a squirt bottle, sqeeze small dots about 1/4" in from the outer edge of the soup, drag a toothpick through all the dots to form a ring of hearts. For a spider web, with the sour cream in the squeeze bottle, starting in the middle of the soup, squeeze a circle of sour cream. Then another circle around that about 1/2" toward the edge of the bowl. Make 4 or 5 circles, or however many you can fit. Drag a toothpick from the center toward the edge of the bowl. One inch away from that, drag the toothpick from the edge of the bowl to the center. Continue, alternating direction, until you have a spider web atop your soup. Fritos, Doritos or Sun Chips. |
