Cooking Soups For Dummies (ePub)

Homemade soup is truly one of life's great pleasures. Heartysoups define good eating and put the comfort in comfort food.Discovering how simple and enjoyable soup is to make is equal onlyto the joy of tasting your own.

With Cooking Soups For Dummies, all you need know is howto boil water. Add to this, some basic advice on equipment plustips on how to stock your kitchen pantry--and you'rewell on your way to tackling the delicious assortment of recipes.But, first, you'll get the lowdown on how to make quick workof such basics as:
* Various cutting methods--including chopping, cubing,dicing, mincing, shredding, and slicing
* Liquid foundations--including recipes for chicken, beef,vegetable, mushroom, fish, shrimp, and clam broth
* Soup safety--advice on proper chilling, storagecontainers, freezing basics (with a shelf-life table), thawing, andreheating
* Tips on improvising--incl uding halving and doublingrecipes, remaking leftovers, ingredient substitutions, andlightening up with less fat

And now to creating your own kitchen itinerary for thedelicious, nutritious, eclectic, and international world of soups .. . starting with:
* Fresh soup from the garden--including Sweet Potato Bisque,Thrifty French Housewife's Soup, and Fresh Tomato BasilSoup
* Soup from the dairy case--including recipes for Cream ofMushroom Soup, Tomato Orange Bisque, and Broccoli Cheddar Soup
* Hearty meat and poultry soups--including recipes forHerbed Oxtail and Vegetable Soup, Scotch Broth, and Country ChickenNoodle Soup
* Seafood chowders and bisques--including recipes for FreshSalmon Chowder, Manhattan Clam Chowder, and Easy LobsterBisque
* Cold soups--including Avocado Soup, Vichyssoise, andSpanish Gazpacho

Full of great tips on garnishes, ideal meal pairings, andlast-minute fixes, plus 100 recipes, eight pages of full-colorphotos, and several black-and-white illustrations, Cooking SoupsFor Dummies helps you discover one great thing about makingsoups: you don't have to be a grandmother to cook likeone!