EASY SOUP RECIPES
(Keywords: easy soup recipes, bernard preston, butternut soup, broccoli soup, vichyssoise)
"First, take an onion, and then make something that will warm the soul."
- from a recipe 6000 years old.
Go to any reputable restaurant and first up amongst the Starters will be a soup. Why is that we have such a fascination for easy soup recipes?
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INDIGESTION HEARTBURN
First off, why is soup always first on the menu? Two reasons come to mind. First, having been puréed, it's an instant source of energy and satisfaction. If you're famished, first think a good soup. Second, and perhaps more important, if you have a weak diaphragm muscle, that which separates the chest cavity from the abdomen, the stomach may herniate through the diaghragm causing a "hiatus hernia".
The net result, if you drink any fluid, anything, tea, coffee, water, beer, soup at the end of the meal, it has a tendency to regurgitate into the oesophagus, the tube joining your throat to your stomach. Unlike the stomach, it is not protected against the very strong acid in the stomach. The result: indigestion heartburn. Avoid the hundreds of heartburn drugs, have your soup at the beginning of the meal, and if necessary your coffee too!
INDIGESTION HEARTBURN ...
WHAT IS SOUP?
Perhaps it's stating the obvious but virtually all easy soup recipes start with an onion and then continue by combining other ingredients, usually meat or vegetables with stock or water. It's then boiled over low heat, extracting the flavour from the meat, or veg. You get clear and thick soups, and I confess an affection for the latter, so if you are looking for clear soups, go elsewhere. The thought of straining off the solids and discarding them, goes against the grain with me, though I suppose you could use the strained solids in another dish. For me, thick soups... The French are the experts, and so you get bouillons and consommés, bisques and Veloutés and the like. But now we are not talking simple soup recipes. And often they now cease to belong to what I describe at Slow Healthy Foods, made fast. The French love to add cream and eggs, and the like...
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
Bennett Cerf, 1898 - 1971
STOCKS
I use two basic stocks, the one easy, the other rather more tricky... I like them both because they are rich in the glucosamine chondroitin sulphate that your hyaline cartilage desperately needs. That's the stuff that lines the bones in your joints: neglect it and you get arthritis... rather think chicken bones bouillon and fish oil health benefits.
HYALINE CARTILAGE ...
CHICKEN BONES bouillon...
FISH OIL HEALTH BENEFITS ...
To the easy soup recipes...
For those of you with the time, and the yen, you can make these pretty-pretty, but my focus is on healthy food, made fast, getting us away from the fast food dinners that busy people are now buying on a daily basis from the supermarkets. Fast, expensive, filled with hydrogenated oils, preservatives, flavour enhancers, stabilisers and all that other crap, excuse my language, but I feel strongly about it. That stuff I feel sure is at the root of many of the cancers that are sweeping our Western World. I don't want to get cancer, and I'm committed to helping you avoid it too...These recipes you can make fast, but if you are having guests to dinner, take a little more time, sprinkle them with chives, or finely chopped parsley benefits, and even a dollop of cream if you know that your guests's blood cholesterol is in good shape.
- IRISH POTATO LEEK SOUP
VICHYSSOISE
IRISH POTATO LEEK SOUP ...
- BROCCOLI SOUP RECIPES, full of anti-cancer
EASY SOUP RECIPES
Broccoli can only be described as a wonder food. Full of anti-cancer substances, rich in anti oxidant vitamins and minerals, it should be on your menu EVERY WEEK. Not convinced? Take a look at these Broccoli Facts. Scroll down for Broccoli Soup Recipes.
BROCCOLI FACTS and EASY BROCCOLI SOUP RECIPES ...
- BUTTERNUT SOUP RECIPE, definitely my favourite soup
EASY SOUP RECIPES
GROWING BUTTERNUT SQUASH ... and an easy butternut soup recipe.
- ASPARAGUS SOUP RECIPES
My philosophy? Make soups from each and every vegetable that I can think of. And then try to mix and match, which flavours enhance other vegetables. Asparagus and celery?
ASPARAGUS SOUP RECIPES ...
- CAULIFLOWER SOUP RECIPE, just good stuff
EASY SOUP RECIPES
Cauliflower has no particular remarkable nutrient qualities but like all veg it's rich in fibre, vitamins and minerals, surprisingly low in calories, and a little dull, so we dicky it up here with a little curry and yoghurt. And cream, if your cholesterol is like mine, disgustingly low! Despite eating quite a high fat diet, and too much butter I confess. It's all about balance. Visit our Easy Soup Menu for recipes every week, and chances are your cholesterol will also drop.
EASY CAULIFLOWER SOUP RECIPE ...
- SALMON AND BROCCOLI SOUP, a wonder for your joints
EASY SOUP RECIPES
Salmon, rich in Omega-3 essential heart and joint fatty acids, and Broccoli rich in anti-cancer substances ranks high at Easy Soup Recipes. Add to that great taste, and you surely have a winner.
SALMON AND BROCCOLI SOUP, Ways to cook salmon ...
- Omega-3 rich FISH SOUP, protect your heart
EASY SOUP RECIPES
A good friend has just gone for a triple bypass operation. A non-smoker, not over-weight, what went wrong? I'm not on top of all the facts, but the surgeon said his heart arteries were clogged with atherosclerosis. Think Omega-3, think Fish soup.
FISH SOUP ...
- TOMATO SOUP, love your prostate...
EASY SOUP RECIPE
Research proves that a tomato-a-day will reduce (or hubby's!) the chance of getting prostate cancer by a massive 50%. There's a suggestion that cooked it's even more effective: tomato soup recipe.
TOMATO SOUP RECIPE ...
- TOSCANINI CELERY SOUP, calm your nerves
EASY SOUP RECIPE
The maestro demanded his celery soup before every concert. He said it calmed his nerves. Celery, when did you last bite into a stick of celery or enjoy a dish not unlike Toscanani Celery Soup. It's anti-arthritis properties alone, never mind what the fibre will do for your gummed up colon... and the flavour? Something to die for, he wasn't such an ol' fart! A genius!
TOSCANINI CELERY SOUP ...
EASY LUNCH RECIPES
These are really meant for the packed lunch, but you can just as easily adapt them for your family, and even guests. Did you know that you can make Hummus at home in only 4 minutes?
EASY LUNCH RECIPES ...
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