Category: Soups

TIP OF THE DAY: French Onion Soup Fondue, A Neighborly Fusion

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Voilà: a fusion of French onion soup and fondue. Photo courtesy QVC.   We love fusion cuisine—the art of combining ingredients or techniques from different cuisines to create exciting new flavors. Fusion cuisine typically combines foods from different countries or global regions (Japanese-Mediterranean, for example, or barbecue chicken pizza). But is it still a fusion…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sistema Microwave Plastic Containers

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The soup gets hot, the bowl stays cool. Above: soup mug and noodle bowl. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   We don’t have a huge amount of storage space, so we resist buying things that have single-purpose uses. In the kitchen, that restriction covers numerous gadgets and appliances. For example, we’d love a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Soup Bar For Parties Or The Weeknight Dinner Table

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How can you make soup the most fun dish of the week? Set up a “soup bar.” It’s similar to a baked potato bar, where bowls of garnishes are laid out so that everyone can customize his or her own soup. The garnishes are what you already have in the kitchen, and a soup bar…
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RECIPE:A Chicken Andouille Sausage Gumbo From Emeril Lagasse

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[1] A seafood gumbo with crayfish, oysters, shrimp and okra (photo © Mackenzie Ltd.). [2] Gumbo is always served over white rice. Here, shrimp and andouille sausage gumbo (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Okra, shown whole and sliced (photo © Melissa’s Produce | Facebook). [4] Emerill Lagasse’s chicken and andouille sausage gumbo (photo © NOLA…
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PRODUCT: Campbell’s GO Soup—Not Your Mother’s Campbell’s Soup

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Campbell’s Soup is one of those iconic brands that goes back so many generations as to be ho hum to today’s youth. So the company got hip and developed the new Campbell’s Go line: microwavable pouches of soup that heat conveniently in the microwave and pour easily into the nearest mug. Not only is the…
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