Italian Soup Recipes for the every day person

Italian Soup Recipes

Potato Soup

Italian Soup Tip

Every time you make a dinner with vegetables and meal that you have left over’s from, just place the them into a baggy and freeze. When you want to make soup put all of you veggies into a pot and cook to your liking!!! Add meat and enjoy!!

 

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth.
So what is Soup typically it starts with hot water and then adding meats, vegetables and herbs to create a broth from the flavors of the ingredients.
Soups are grouped in two main classifications of ‘Clear Soups’ or ‘Thick Soups’.

Beer and Cheese Soup

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Now you want to talk comfort food, what could be better than beer and melted cheese. Drop a chuck of French bread into this cheese soup recipe and you will know the meaning of comfort food. This is an easy cheese soup recipe that will keep them coming back for more.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup flour
5 cups chicken stock
4 tablespoons Parmesan Romano Cheese
1/3 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced onion
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
8 ounces cheddar cheese
1 bottle dark beer
salt and pepper to taste

Steps

In your soup pot melt your butter and saute the carrots, onions and celery till they are done but not browned. Next blend in the dry ingredients (flour, and dry mustard) into the pot with the sauted vegetables. Slowly add chicken stock, bring to a boil; cook, stirring, 5 minutes. Add  in cheddar cheese, Parmesan-Romano cheese, and beer. Let simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.

 

Soup Recipe Facts

Soup recipe facts that i bet you didn't know...

Who Eats more Soup, Men or Women?

When it comes to eating soup who do you think eats more of the supper food? Well if you said Women then you would be right. It seems that women are more likely to eat soup for lunch that men are by 2 to 1. Could be that women tend to watch their weigh more than men and soup is a great diet food.

The French Name Soup

Did you know that the word ‘Soup’  came from the French like most food words. It was used sometime in the 16th century to depict a cheap soup that was hawked by street merchants and was called “Restaurer”. These street merchants claimed it was a cure for what ailed you.

 

Thats alot of soup

Soup is one of the most consumed food groups in the United States. Americans eat over 10,000,000,000 (that’s Billion) Bowls of soup in a year. Now that is a lot of soup.

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Italian Soup Recipes