Posts Tagged ‘soup’

Chicken And Spinach Soup – Not What You’d Think – Recipe

09/11/2010

This is another one that surprises based on its simplicity and results.  This light soup will bring  pleasant comments from you and your family or guests.  But first a quiz.

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Surimi Bisque Soup – Imitation Lobster/Crab Bisque

07/04/2010

Sometimes you just have to make do.  Lobster bisque is great.  But not many of us have a bathtub full of lobster ready to give up the ghost to a bowl of soup. (more…)

Canned Soup – not the obvious

01/05/2010

You might have read other recipes on this blog and noticed there’s no sin here in taking a can off the shelf, opening it and using it to make something good.  There’s also no sin in using dried herbs and spices.  If they’re not as flavorful as fresh herbs and spices, just use a little more. There are times when cooking may be a hobby to us, and times when cooking is a way to get food into the stomach.  Most of the recipes here are of the food in the stomach variety.  But food in the stomach that tastes a little better than straight out of the can or freezer and doesn’t take a weekend to gather ingredients and prepare.

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French Onion Soup – Like it used to be – Famous-Barr

12/07/2009

It used to be that people would go to standalone department stores to shop.  Call them the old downtown department stores, if you will.  Some of these most likely still exist in some of the larger cities.  After hours of walking around in these cavernous multi-floor stores, people naturally became hungry.  It was the custom that most stores had some sort of cafeteria available where people could stop their empty stomach from talking back, rest their weary feet and most likely, to the store owner’s delight, keep them in the store.  In each cafeteria, no matter how average all the other food was, there was usually one specialty that became a must for every shopping trip.  This recipe is one of the musts served at the old mid-west Famous-Barr department stores.

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