Soup Makes the Meal: 150 Soul-Satisfying Recipes for Soups, Salads, and Breads (Paperback)

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Amazon.com Review

For every occasion there seems to be a suitable soup: chicken soup for when you're under the weather, chili for the big football game, cheese soup for après-ski. Author and food writer Ken Haedrich relishes and highlights the unique character of soup in Soup Makes the Meal: 150 Soul-Satisfying Recipes for Soups, Salads, and Breads. His soup and salad recipes feature fresh, interesting, and, in many cases, seasonal foods. The recipe choices are meant to appeal to all appetites: they can be hearty enough to satisfy the hungriest meat eater or observant enough for vegetarian tastes or stylish enough for more elegant affairs. Find Chilled Creamy Peach Yogurt Soup for the summer months paired with Blueberry Lemon Scones and Tomato, Feta, and Peach Composed Salad garnished with Peach Vinaigrette. The yeast and nonyeast breads included are both interesting and unique. Jeff's Whipped Cream Biscuits are a rich accompaniment to Deborah's Bulgur Buttermilk Herb Soup, and the Molasses Soda Bread with Curried Pumpkin is the perfect winter's night companion to Haedrich's Cheddar Bisque. A well-known and experienced food writer, Haedrich offers the reader a bountiful harvest of choices that he recommends mixing and matching. This impressive collection should lead to a near-endless supply of satisfying combinations and possibilities. --Teresa Simanton

From Library Journal

Known for his simple but satisfying home-style recipes and especially his desserts and baked goods, Haedrich (Country Baking) here provides 50 complete menus for soup, salad, and bread (or biscuits or muffins), organized by season: The recipes are easy and mostly quick, and the menus make generous meals some of the soup-bread or soup-salad combinations, in fact, could stand alone. Busy home cooks and soup lovers will find Haedrich's latest book appealing; recommended for most collections. [Good Cook selection.]
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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (October 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155832187X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558321878
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #192,968 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't resist this book!, May 11, 2002

By A Customer

I passed this book on a library cart, stopped and picked it up, was intrigued, checked it out, brought it home and read it, and finally decided I have to have my own copy. What a great cookbook, with lots of breads, soups, and salads that I can't wait to try. The breads are mostly innovative quick breads, and thank goodness for so many new picnic and potluck salads besides the tired old mayo-doused macaroni ones. I like the little intro at the beginning of each recipe, it's informative and entertaining and gives you a preview of how your final result will turn out. Most of the soup recipes can easily be modified to be low in fat (for example add evaporated milk instead of cream). My kids are adventurous eaters so I plan to try many many of these recipes, but there are few exotic ingredients or oddball flavor combinations, so I definitely think of this as a "family friendly" cookbook.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read, with Highly Useable Recipes, January 26, 2002

By A Customer

I bought this book for my husband, and can't stay away from it. I first read the book from cover to cover. Most of the ingredients are easily bought at a regular grocery store, and I have had no troubles with any of the recipes yet. There is a huge variety of soups, salads and breads in this book. Some of the selections are traditional favorites, others are more unusual. This book has rapidly become one of our favorites in our collection.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome recipes, March 9, 2004

By A Customer

I cook often, but I own very few cookbooks. I get tired of buying cookbooks and finding only a few recipes worth making. This book is definitely an exception. Every recipe I've tried has been terrific, and there are so many others I'd like to try, I've decided to give the library back their copy and purchase my own. The biggest plus for me is that the recipes are all very healthy and the menus are well-balanced. Yes, he uses butter and cream in some recipes, but he balances them with amazing whole grain breads and large amounts of vegetables and fruits in the soups as well as the salads. What impresses me the most is that his whole grain breads taste so terrific - you'll wonder why you ever ate white bread! Best of all, the recipes make enough for leftovers, but not so much that you're eating soup all week. Best Bets: the Split Pea soup menu is my favorite - the bread is terrific and the split pea soup is the best I've ever tasted.