You don’t have to cook soup all day for it to be tasty. Yes, slow-cooked soups are wonderful but busy cooks can whip out a hearty tasty soup in minutes, too. Try these recipes for a very quick and easy Hearty Tomato-Bean Soup that has a can of tomato soup hidden among its tasty ingredients, [...]

There are many ways of preparing this soup and you can use split green peas or yellow ones, depending which you prefer, or which you have in your store cupboard. Personally I prefer the green ones and use the yellow ones to make fava, which is a dip rather like hummus. You can leave the [...]

As a child, when I was unwell or laid up in bed with the cold virus, my mother would insist that I had a bowl of warm thick nutritious soup. It is a great comfort food and maybe it was a placebo effect but I always seem to feel better after a bowl of warm [...]

Nothing warms a person from the inside out like a nice hot bowl of soup. While soups that simmer all day are very tasty, it is also possible to make soup quickly and easily. Winters in the Midwest can be brutal and a good hot bowl of soup is enjoyed often during such times. As [...]

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water or another liquid. A basic tomato soup is simply tomatoes cooked together with celery, onions and carrots for flavoring. Other seasonings may be added, including salt, pepper, sugar, garlic and green pepper, and milk may be [...]

They say chicken soup is good for the soul, but what about the body? Let’s take a look at chicken soup as a medicinal remedy for the common cold. Was Grandma right, if you eat chicken soup when you’re fighting the common cold, will it help? The chicken soup folklore has been around as long [...]

This excellent, ancient recipe from Provence excites huge passion and interest. Bouillabaisse consists of fragrant fish chunks poached in a saffron-enhanced broth. The dish is served as two courses. First the broth is spooned over toasted bread croutes topped with rouille sauce, which enriches the soup; next the fish itself is eaten. It is undoubtedly [...]

Carrot soup is a good winter warmer which is quick and easy to make. You can substitute the vegetable stock with chicken stock if you have some homemade stock in the freezer. To make a good vegetable stock you need a large onion, sliced, a few whole cloves, about 12 whole black peppercorns, some mixed [...]

The beauty of a hearty winter soup is that you can throw in any vegetables you happen to have, carrots, onions, potatoes, parsnips, a swede, frozen green beans and peas, broccoli, whatever comes to hand. What you can’t do without, however is a good stock, either homemade chicken stock or vegetable stock. You can have [...]

This is a really hearty winter soup and although you may be daunted by the size of this recipe, don’t be put off as you don’t have to watch this cook. It can be left to its own devices. You can use tinned beef consommé for the stock or simply use water and a teaspoon [...]