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Summary: not reliable
Review: A few soups are good (e.g., the parsnip soup), but many are quite flavourless. Perhaps useful in a library, but not a high priority. I have made many more poor soups from this book than tasty ones.
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Summary: Great for my Confidence!!!!!
Review: Absolutely wonderful recipes for the learning-to-cook cook ...Every soup I have prepared from this book has been deliciously satsifying in aroma, texture & flavor. Our family now enjoys a soup made from these recipes each night as a regular part of our dinner. We are up to 3 new soups per week! And I am becoming renowned for my soups - who would've thought? But I do share my secret...this cookbook is too good to keep to myself!
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Summary: Best soups ever made! And you can create them too.
Review: After being referred to as the "Soup Natzi" a la Seinfield, by my family, I can heartily reccomend this book to EVERYONE.
There is not a recipe in this book that falls flat. Clearly written, easy to follow recipes. And even better: all the recipes are filling, hearty, and very tasty.
I have had this book for 3 weeks now, have made a soup just about every day, and have not regretted even one of them. After trying these recipes you'll discover you're a soup lover, even if you hated soup before.
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Summary: best soup cookbook
Review: I forgot to mention in my review that while this is not intended to be a vegetarian cookbook, most of the recipes are already vegetarian or can be easily modified to suit any vegetarian diet.
I received this book for my birthday along with this amazing new beverage as an alternative to coffee. Made from 100% soy that's organic, its absolutely delicious! It's caffeine-free and comes in 8 delicious flavors. Just google it under "s oyfee" to find it and you won't be disappointed.What a fantastic book! For the soup lover, this collection is all you need. The recipes range from fairly easy to fairly complicated (not recommended for the novice cook). Especially recommend the tuscan tomato-bread soup...a winner!
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Summary: Best soup I've ever made.
Review: I received Twelve Months of Monastery Soups as a gift for Christmas and I love it. Most of the soups have been a big hit for everyone in my family. I highly recommend this book. The recipes are easy with usually only two or three steps for each soup. I have found a couple of soups that I didn't like in here, but the overwhelming majority of them have been excellent. I especially love the Cream of Broccoli and Cream of Asparagus as well as the Potage du Jardin and Spinach Soup. I think I'm going to buy this book as a gift for several of my friends and family, since I think it was a great gift choice for me.
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Summary: Best soup I've ever made.
Review: Nothing warms the spirit like a bowl of soup and this book is a special joy -- filled with simple and delicious recipes for the ultimate comfort food. The recipes are organized by the months of the year to emphasize seasonal preferences and produce availability. Turn to January for great hot soups and stews in the cold months, look for lighter choices and some wonderful cold soups in the summer chapters. There are 175 (!) soup recipes in this book, all simple enough to prepare every day for your family and many elegant (yet still easy to prepare) for entertaining. The Vegetable stock in this cook book is the best and most flavorful I've ever tried and I freeze tons of it in four-cup ziplock freezer bags to use in vegetarian dishes. The recipes are meant to be experimented with and the author gives great advice for substitutions and seasoning in the preface. Because of the special emphasis on seasonal availability of produce this cook book is the perfect choice for the kitchen gardener.
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Summary: Soup is Good Food
Review: Nothing warms the spirit like a bowl of soup and this book is a special joy -- filled with simple and delicious recipes for the ultimate comfort food. The recipes are organized by the months of the year to emphasize seasonal preferences and produce availability. Turn to January for great hot soups and stews in the cold months, look for lighter choices and some wonderful cold soups in the summer chapters. There are 175 (!) soup recipes in this book, all simple enough to prepare every day for your family and many elegant (yet still easy to prepare) for entertaining. The Vegetable stock in this cook book is the best and most flavorful I've ever tried and I freeze tons of it in four-cup ziplock freezer bags to use in vegetarian dishes. The recipes are meant to be experimented with and the author gives great advice for substitutions and seasoning in the preface. Because of the special emphasis on seasonal availability of produce this cook book is the perfect choice for the kitchen gardener.
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Summary: Bland-tasting soups
Review: Our family loves soups and that's basically all we eat in the wintertime. After reading so many postive reviews, I decided to purchase this book hoping to add a few more favorites to our reportoire. I was very disappointed though. The soups ranged from bland-tasting to downright unpalatable and we tried several of the recipes. I recommend "Skinny Soups" by Ruth Glick and Nancy Baggett instead- wonderful flavors and many vegetarian soups and meat soups that taste good even even if you decide to leave the meat out.
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Summary: Fantastic Swiss Chard
Review: The Swiss chard and lentil soup in this book is soooooo good. I'd never thought of cooking with chard before, but this made it both easy and delicious. Great stuff all around.
For those who find these soups a bit bland, do what I do: ADD SALT. It's a simple solution.
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Summary: Soup never tasted so good
Review: This cook book has a very good collection of simple soups (mostly vegetarian) that can be made quite easily. They are grouped by month and take advantage of the fresh produce that are in season. One of the great benefits of these recipes is that most of the ingredients are relatively inexpensive and healthy (e.g., carrots, onions, celery, beans). The recipes vary a great deal in taste, although many have similar ingredient lists. A great testiment to the diversity of soup. I have, however, noticed that many of the recipes call for a rather large portion of oil and turn out somewhat greasy. I recommend cutting the oil if it seems excessive.
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