Soups and Stews
Recipes
“Chili is largely a state of mind,” Bill Bridges wrote in his 1981 Great American Chili Book. He was a native of ...
A San Francisco classic, cioppino was likely brought to the Bay Area by Italian immigrants in the late 19th century...
Drain the wheat berries and place them in a pot over high heat with 4 cups (1 liter) water. Add the cinnamon sticks. Bring to...
Fish chowder tastes best if you start with a whole haddock, weighing about four pounds, so you can make a fish broth or court bouillon...
This stew will remind you of chowder. In fact, in form it is a chowder, and if you have a favorite way to make chowder,...
I’ve lost track of the origins of this soup, which might have been my own innovation. It uses vin jaune, the unusual, very dry white...
This cherry soup from the Franche-Comté in eastern France is not, as it may sound, a dessert, but a first course...
Some of the most richly flavored soups of all are onion. Some are purposefully pale, but deep flavor comes from ...
Soups of fresh, sweet green peas, cooked nearly like petits pois à la laitue but puréed and called purées, are very Parisian...
A potée is a country dish of vegetables, especially cabbage and potatoes, with sausage or another form of cured pork, and often...
The depth of flavor in slowly cooked Cajun dishes comes partly from a Cajun brown roux, which is cooked very dark, almost burnt, so that...
This summer soup is adapted from the cookbook La Cucina del Piemonte by Giovanni Goria, published in 1990, where it is given the dialect name...
Once, wherever chestnut trees grew, the nuts were important food for the poor, and yet their taste is luxurious...
According to the 1962 cookbook Chez Maxim’s: Secrets and Recipes from the World’s Most Famous Restaurant...
Closely related to this Maryland crab soup is Charleston’s she-crab soup, prepared in winter when the female crabs are filled with roe...
A quick cabbage soup usually gets much of its flavor from cured pork, such as smoked sausage...
This basic soup relies for thickening only on the puréed carrots themselves. Like so many other vegetables, the carrots in regular supermarkets...
Homage to the late-summer vegetable garden, the combination of carrot and tomato is excellent, with sweetness coming from one ...
Unless you have perfectly fresh asparagus, peel it to bring the taste closer to just-picked. I prefer that a soup have its own inherent consistency...