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How to Make Creamy Pumpkin Soup
Make pumpkin soup with sweet, sugar, pie, or cheese pumpkins (small baking pumpkins). Add onions and potatoes for a sweet-savory flavor or substitute tart apples for the potatoes for a sweet-tart soup. Small pumpkins are sweeter, meatier, and have less fibrous flesh than larger ones. (Varieties to grow next year include: Sugar Baby, Baby Pam, […] More
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How to Make Cold, Tasty Cucumber Soup
Cucumber soup is a delicious summer soup served chilled. It’s cooling, light, and quiet. There is a simple way to make cucumber soup, here it is: whirl two peeled medium cucumbers and an 7- or 8-ounce container of plain yogurt in the blender until smooth; add salt and pepper to taste; chill until cold and […] More
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Vegetable and Rice Noodle Soup
Vegetable and rice noodle soup is both light and hearty. Vary the stock—beef, chicken, or vegetable for degrees of intensity and complexity of flavor—and vary the vegetables with the season—root and cabbage family vegetables in the cool time of the year, leafy vegetables and summer squashes in the warm time of the year. I use […] More
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White Bean Soup with Variations
White bean soup is hearty and well suited for cold weather. Basic bean soup is easy to make; follow one simple rule for best flavor: keep the heat low; bean soups burn easily. Variations on bean soup are many: you can add leftovers, fresh vegetables such as greens sliced thin or chopped, pasta, cooked vegetables—carrots, […] More
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How to Make Cabbage Soup with No Recipe
Cabbage soup is earthy with a subtle sweetness. With a few aromatic vegetables or some meat or lentils added, it makes an inexpensive yet flavorful and filling one-dish meal. Common green cabbage from the spring, fall, or winter garden is ideal for cabbage soup. Ratio. The ratio of liquid to solids can vary from 1:1 […] More
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How to Make Pea or Lentil Soup With No Recipe
Split pea soup and lentil soup are robust, hearty soups that require little preparation time—less than an hour. Unlike dried beans, dried peas and lentils and also black-eyed peas do not require soaking before cooking. They can be combined with aromatic vegetables or meat to make a one-pot meal or matched with a seasonal green […] More
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How to Make Dried Bean Soup With No Recipe
Dried bean soups are hearty and perfect for chilly days. Black beans, navy beans, kidney beans, lima beans may be used. For a velvety, smooth soup, purée or whir the beans in a blender after cooking; for a soup with texture, purée only half the beans. Water is the common liquid ingredient for dried bean […] More
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How to Make Purée Vegetable Soup with No Recipe
Purée aromatic and sweet vegetables in a blender for a velvety soup or purée them by hand in the pot for a slightly chunky soup. Carrot soup, leek and potato soup, cauliflower soup, broccoli soup, winter squash soup: root vegetables and substantive bodied or flowered vegetables make thick, flavorful purée soups. Potatoes, carrots, turnips, rutabagas, […] More
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How to Make Onion Soup With No Recipe
Onion soup served with melted cheese and crusty bread (on top or on the side) will make for a hearty lunch. The same with a summer garden salad or a side dish of roasted winter root vegetables will make dinner. Use medium size white or yellow globe-shaped onions for strong flavor or large flat onions—called […] More
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How to Make Chicken Stock With No Recipe
I make many flavorful soups year-round using vegetables from my kitchen garden. Chicken stock and vegetable stock are the base for many of these. Here’s how I make chicken stock: Chicken stock is a basic preparation used to make many soups and sauces. Chicken stock draws its flavor from the bones and meat of a […] More
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How to Make Minestrone Soup With No Recipe
Minestrone means big soup in Italian. You can make and serve minestrone as a meal in itself, nearly a vegetable stew. Minestrone varies from cook to cook but most commonly includes onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, and tomatoes bolstered by beans or peas and pasta or rice. Because minestrone is a thick soup, the vegetables are […] More
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How to Make Seasonal Vegetable Soups
A hearty seasonal vegetable soup is made simply by combining the flavors of one, two, or three in-season vegetables with the flavors of one, two, or three all-season vegetables. You can have tasty home-made vegetable soup in 30 to 40 minutes any time of the year. All-season vegetables–carrots, celery, onions and potatoes–are a classic foundation […] More
Steve Albert