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Loading... Enlightened Soups: More Than 135 Light, Healthy, Delicious and Beautiful Soups in 60 Minutes or Lessby Camilla V. Saulsbury
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With ENLIGHTENED SOUPS in hand, home cooks will have more than 150 quick, delicious, and innovative options from which to choose. From new takes on classics like chicken soup with herbed dumplings and Tuscan minestrone to innovations like butternut bisque with Gruyere croutons and Hanoi beef noodle soup, ENLIGHTENED SOUPS is filled with choices for any day of the week, any time of the year. Like all of the books in the Enlightened Cooking series, the recipes are straightforward, the ingredients commonly available, and the techniques geared toward the home cook. Every recipe includes a nutritional analysis, and at the back of the book, quick-search appendixes indicate which soups are especially low in fat (fewer than 3 grams per serving), especially low in calories (150 or less per serving), and especially low in total time required (from start to finish). The recipes are divided into pureed, meat, poultry, seafood, vegetable, and legume soups. No library descriptions found. |
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I don't like recipes that take too long (if I get tired just reading the list of ingredients, then I know I will not be making that recipe);
I don't like recipes that require too many pots and pans and, of course, the recipes must be extremely easy to prepare - impressing everyone around me and making them think that I have just spent hours and hours slaving in the kitchen, when I know that I was lucky enough to find a great recipe book that just makes me look like a wonderful cook!!!!
Well, the Enlightened Soups cookbook is the perfect answer!
Its absolutely freezing here, in my part of the world, and I can think of nothing better than a wonderfully, hot, homemade soup to warm me up. This cookbook offers over 130 different types of soups - each one containing only healthy ingredients and requiring a minimal amount of time in the kitchen.
I love the way the book is sectioned off - either by groups of food such as poultry soups or seafood soups then further broken down by "soups by total time" with the longest taking 60 minutes to make. There is also a handy little section at the back detailing the vegan soups, the low-cal soups, the spring and summer soups, as well as a table of contents with the soups listed alphabetically. This is probably one of the best referenced cookbook I have ever used.
As for the recipes themselves? well, I have not been able to work my way through the entire 135 recipes yet! but I have tried a total of 10 so far and each and every one of the recipes have been wonderfully easy to make and extremely tasty !!!! The instructions are easy to understand and the ingredients used are common to evey day kitchens, you will not need to find some obscure store in order to get that one missing ingredient.
Soups always make me feel secure and content and this cookbook is an absolute treasure! The only little thing I would have to mention is that I really like accompanying photos in my cookbooks and this book has a few shots at the beginning of the book but that's it! It would have been nice to have some pictures to go with the actual recipes.
Other than that little comment, I loved, loved this cookbook. Perfect for a cold, wintry day. (