Category: Soups
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Avgolemono Soup
Reading Eating Suburbia’s post about lemons and chicken made me want to try my hand at some Avgolemono soup. I’m in the same position of having a lemon tree totally loaded with lemons. (Although the lemon tree right next to it, a different variety, is sparse. Go figure.) Coincidentally (or not) I had just picked…
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Beef Noodle Soup
One you’ve made the beef broth, making the soup is easy. You don’t really need a recipe for soup, of course. It almost always comes out good unless you blend too many flavors, kind of like blending colors–too many and you just end up with grey. Leave out the tomatoes if you don’t have them…
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How to Make Beef Broth from Leftover Beef Bones
So having made prime rib I had some gorgeous bones left for broth. I’ve rarely made beef broth before, although I make chicken broth all the time and cannot actually imagine buying it ever again. But I rarely cook beef that has bones it seems and it feels funny to pay for beef bones. So…
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Pasta e Fagioli Soup (Pasta and Beans)
This was a fantastically good, filling Pasta e Fagioli Soup. I used turkey broth but you could as easily use vegetable broth or chicken broth. I mostly followed the recipe in Cheap. Fast. Good! but made a few modifications. I did put two cans of tomatoes in here but found it a bit tomato heavy…
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Beef Barley Soup
Rather than have French dip sandwiches again, I took a diced a cup of the leftover beef and used about 2 cups of the leftover au jus in this soup. Often when I make a beef-based soup I use about half chicken stock and half beef stock, as I did here. Add a couple of…