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Exactly What it Claims to Be, November 13, 2010
This review is from: 365 Easy Soups & Stews: Simple, Delicious Recipes to Warm the Heart (Paperback)
The books claims to have easy soup and stew recipes. It delivers just that. The index is well organized by the ingredients and cooking method and I like the variety of recipes. For example, I was looking for a black bean soup recipe. There are several listed depending on taste preferences. Also, there are recipes that use dry black beans and others use canned black beans. With 365 recipes there are sure to be plenty to please all preferences and palates. The recipes certainly aren't gourmet, but why would anybody expect that out of a book with the title "Easy Soups & Stews"?
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Good beginner's soup book, September 27, 2010
This review is from: 365 Easy Soups & Stews: Simple, Delicious Recipes to Warm the Heart (Paperback)
I'm a cooking novice, and I don't cook often, but I really like soup, so I get the urge to try throwing together a soup once in a while. I work and I've got two small kids, so I can't spend hours cooking or learning to cook.
With that in mind, this book is perfect for me! The recipes are simple enough for me to throw together with little effort, and after making about a dozen soups from this book, there hasn't been a bad recipe yet. These recipes that don't require a movie or lots of pictures to decipher--they're simple, straightforward, and tasty.
There is a good mix of smaller recipes that are good for leftovers, and bigger recipes requiring lots of meat and other things.
There are soups, stews, chowders, chilis, chilled soups, and gumbos in this book, so there are lots of new things to try.
Sections, more or less, dispensing with the fancy names...
Chilled soups, pp. 7-21.
Chicken, pp. 23-60.
Beef, pp. 61-100.
Pork, pp. 101-140.
Seafood, pp. 141-156.
Meatless (cheese or veggie), pp. 157-212.
Slow cooker chicken, pp. 214-221.
Slow cooker turkey, pp. 222-224.
Slow cooker beef, pp. 225-237.
Slow cooker pork, pp. 238-255.
Slow cooker seafood, pp. 256-257.
Slow cooker veggie, pp. 258-263.
Recipes typically come one to a page, but shorter recipes are sometimes paired. Note that you can click the book above to look inside--the chilled soup recipes shown under "First Pages" are pretty representative of this book's style.
The book itself is about 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall, so it doesn't take up a lot of room on my counter when I'm cooking.
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