Customer Reviews

365 Easy Soups & Stews: Simple, Delicious Recipes to Warm the Heart

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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"?

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.

The book was in awesome condition and I am enjoying making new items from it. I was quite pleased with this purchase!

Who wouldn't love this?!?! This is one of my favorite cookbooks... the recipes are super easy and a lot of ingredients are things you may already have on hand. If you have a busy life style or for new cooks this is the book for you. I was thrilled to see stock for this book... I purchased a bunch of these to give as gifts. Sorry I ran them empty! I highly recommend this book. Happy cooking!

365 easy Soups & Stews ; Not worth your money don't buy it . The book arrived in good shape the service was good but the synopsis was way off on content of this very poor book. This is a shortcut book using canned and frozen items not a from scratch cookbook at all. Taste wise the recipes a mediocre at best because of selections using poor grade cheeses etc.