Related Clues:

• First course in a tureen
• Very cheerful, but in trouble here?
• Stock kin
• Early course at a restaurant
• Miso dish
• Beginning, in an idiom ... or a hint to the starred clues' answers, pre-transformation
• Minestrone or menudo
• Tureen fill
• Extremely excited having this on the restaurant menu?
• Tom yum, avgolemono or borscht
• Matzo ball ___, aka Jewish penicillin
• Part of many a lunch special
• Pho or gazpacho
• Salmorejo, for one
• Liquid lunch perhaps very revolting