Sunday, February 23, 2014
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Mouthwatering Potato Soup Recipes - Discover Your Own With These 3 Tips!
Learning to make your own homemade potato soup recipes can be
exciting, satisfying and very full-filling. When you create a soup (that
everyone loves) for family or a friend and they ask where you got such a
wonderful recipe, what would you rather tell them?
"I just got it from some website or cookbook..." OR would you rather tell them "I made the recipe up myself and it's the newest edition to my own cookbook!"
If these are the words of gratification that you want to hear, then here are 3 tips to help you create the delicious recipes that you desire.
Tip #1 - What Type of Base?
The base of a soup has the greatest effect over all others.
There are 3 main bases to start with that you can use for your potato soups, cream base, clear base, and puree based.
Tip #2 - What Type of Stock / Broth?The best way to a great base is your stock and creating your own homemade stock can have an amazing effect on your soup. Though it's slightly time consuming, it is also very easy and rewarding.
3 basic stocks are used for potato soup recipes. Chicken stock, vegetable stock and beef stock.
Tip #3 - What kind of ingredients do you want to use? Now that you know what kind of base texture and stock you want, we need to figure out the ingredients that go well with each. This is only a guideline to help you choose your ingredients.
"I just got it from some website or cookbook..." OR would you rather tell them "I made the recipe up myself and it's the newest edition to my own cookbook!"
If these are the words of gratification that you want to hear, then here are 3 tips to help you create the delicious recipes that you desire.
Tip #1 - What Type of Base?
The base of a soup has the greatest effect over all others.
There are 3 main bases to start with that you can use for your potato soups, cream base, clear base, and puree based.
- Creamy Bases - Creamy potato soups are usually smooth and comforting with a subtle taste. There are many ways to make a creamy potato soup but we are just going to go over 3 popular ways to get a creamy base.
- Cream Base 1 - The easiest and most used is just by adding enough heavy cream until the desired consistency and tastes are met. Another similar method would be using milk but this would be a lot thinner and a lot less creamy.
- Cream Base 2 - A bit more complicated but most likely not to difficult for you is using a light roux and milk. Just add 2 teaspoons of roux for every cup of milk to the soup, stir well, until the desired consistency is reached. Be careful, roux can make your soup extremely thick.
- Cream Base 3 - The least used of the 3 but second easiest would be using cornstarch and powdered milk. Dissolve 1 1/4 tablespoons cornstarch to every 2 cups of soup broth you have in a small bowl of cold water. Add 5 tablespoons powdered milk to every 2 cups of soup broth you have and the cornstarch/water mixture to the soup at the end of cooking and stir well for 1 1/2 minutes.
Clear Base - A clear base, the easiest of the 3, normally has a rich and bold flavor with no extra additions like heavy cream to the stock, the base IS the stock.
Puree Base - A puree base is loaded with rich flavors and is exactly what it sounds like. All the solids are pureed with the stock of your choice after the soup is cooked. This is best achieved with an immersion blender which you can dip right into the soup and blend with. Another way would be to strain the solids out of your soup and add them to a blender then add a few cups of broth and puree. Then add the puree to the broth, mix well and voila!
Tip #2 - What Type of Stock / Broth?The best way to a great base is your stock and creating your own homemade stock can have an amazing effect on your soup. Though it's slightly time consuming, it is also very easy and rewarding.
3 basic stocks are used for potato soup recipes. Chicken stock, vegetable stock and beef stock.
- Chicken Stock - Chicken stock is the second most popular stock used for potato soup and has a strong and very rich flavor adding a bit of bite to your soup. A basic chicken stock is usually made by slowly simmering chicken bones, skin, meat, celery, carrots, garlic, onion, parsley, salt and pepper in a pot of water.
- Vegetable Stock - The most popular of the 3 stocks used in potato soup is vegetable stock. It has more of a natural and relaxed flavor compared to chicken stock. It is full of natural vitamins and nutrients to keep your body healthy. A very basic vegetable stock is achieved by slowly simmering carrots, garlic, parsley, onion, celery, leek, bay leaf, mushroom, salt, pepper and sometimes parsnips, thyme and potatoes.
- Beef Stock - Much different from the 2 above and often not used in potato soup, beef stock has a very rich and bold flavor and great in some soups with potatoes. Beef stock is made with beef bones, fat, meat, onions, celery, carrots, bay leaf, salt, pepper, garlic, parsley, thyme and sometimes tomato.
Tip #3 - What kind of ingredients do you want to use? Now that you know what kind of base texture and stock you want, we need to figure out the ingredients that go well with each. This is only a guideline to help you choose your ingredients.
- Ingredients for a creamy base. - Bacon and cheddar are the most popular ingredients in creamy potato soups. Some other great ideas would be carrots, green beans, onions, garlic, celery, green onions, chives, chicken, ham, shallots, thyme, peas, dill, salt, black and white pepper. Good stocks with a creamy soup are vegetable and chicken stock.
- Ingredients for a clear base - With beef stock would be tomatoes, green beans, onions, garlic, celery, parsley, chunks of beef, bay leaf, barley, bell pepper, cayenne pepper, ground beef, salt, mozzarella and black pepper. With vegetable or chicken stock would be chicken, ham, carrots, white beans, green beans, celery, garlic, thyme, squash, onion, zucchini, shallots, white wine, dill, salt and black pepper.
- Ingredients for a puree base - Carrots and tomatoes are great for a puree based soup along with these healthy additions. Onion, garlic, zucchini, squash, bell pepper, kidney beans, shallots, celery, green onions, sweet potatoes, peas, dill, salt and various peppers. The most popular stock with puree based potato soup recipes is vegetable stock although chicken stock is used sometimes but rarely. There are many more tips for you to create a great potato soup recipe but these 3 are the most important basics to get you started.
Ken Tireman is a cooking enthusiast who takes special interest in
soup recipes and tips to help others make delicious potato soup recipes
[http://www.savory-soup-recipes.com/potato-soup-recipes.html] along
with a large list that's packed full of his own great soup recipes to
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
The Great American Jerky Cookbook: A simple guide to making your own authentic jerky with 52 delicious jerky marinade recipes
The Great American Jerky Cookbook: A simple guide to making your own authentic jerky with 52 delicious jerky marinade recipes was a free kindle book at the time of this blog post.Using this simple book, you will be ready to start making your own jerky quickly and easily.
The Great American Jerky Cookbook contains 52
recipes for delicious jerky marinades and simple, easy to follow instructions for making your own jerky at home.
This guide covers equipment you may need, including how to use your home oven for jerky makin’. It also covers the best types of meats to use and which to avoid. You will learn how to prepare and cut the meat for the most tender jerky, how to use marinades, how to dry the meat, how to test jerky to make sure it is done, and how to store it.
The marinade recipes include:
Good Ol’ Fashion Jerky
Teriyaki Jerky
Pepper Hot Jerky
Cowboy Jerky
Barbecue Jerky
Sweet and Sour Jerky
Hawaiian Jerky
Alabama Honey Jerky
and many more.
Stocking The Vegetarian Pantry Book: How To Stock Your Pantry For A Healthy Diet
Stocking The Vegetarian Pantry Book: How To Stock Your Pantry For A Healthy Diet was a free kindle book at the time of this posting.
Are you newly vegetarian or vegan? Are you just beginning to transition into the lifestyle and not quite there yet? Confused by all the strange, unfamiliar ingredients? This is the book for you. It demystifies all the confusing terms for you. This book also gives you an overview of some of the health benefits to be gained from eating and living a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. Some of the topics discussed are Miso, it's nutritional value and uses, how to use sea vegetables and gain their wonderful benefits, what's really hiding in your olive oil bottle and many more! A must have for people transitioning to a plant based lifestyle!
Instant Potato Soup Mix
When cool afternoons or rainy days approach it is always a good time
to make a pot of homemade soup. Soup is generally an especially popular
meal with the men in your life whether they are your 12 years old sons
or your thirty some year old husband. In many cases a dehydrated version
of soups can be created in the event that fresh products are not
available at the market place. This situation could result from a major
national emergency such as hurricanes or floods which would prevent the
supply trucks from arriving at their destination. With our instant soup
recipe all you will need to do is open the jar and pour the contents
into a medium pot of hot, boiling water.
The following recipe will make enough soup for 12 servings therefore you could perhaps invite a neighbor in for a mealtime treat. This affords you the opportunity to show your friends and family how simple and inviting a sufficient food storage program can be. When saving up your family food supplies always remember to store what you eat and eat what you store.
Ingredients
1/4 cup of granules of chicken bouillon
3 cups of instant mashed potato flakes
2 tablespoons of dry minced onions
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 tablespoon of dry parsley flakes
1/2 tablespoon of dill weed
1/2 teaspoon of thyme
1 cup of instant milk
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1/8 cup of crushed bacon bits
Mix all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl except for the bacon bits. In your food processor or by hand grind up the bacon bits until they appear crumbled up. This will allow them to combine with the other ingredients better. After crumbling up the bacon bits add them to the mixture and stir well until they are evenly mixed with the other products.
Package the final product in quart jars and place an oxygen absorber in each. The jars of potato soup should store nicely for at least eight to ten years.
The following recipe will make enough soup for 12 servings therefore you could perhaps invite a neighbor in for a mealtime treat. This affords you the opportunity to show your friends and family how simple and inviting a sufficient food storage program can be. When saving up your family food supplies always remember to store what you eat and eat what you store.
Ingredients
1/4 cup of granules of chicken bouillon
3 cups of instant mashed potato flakes
2 tablespoons of dry minced onions
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 tablespoon of dry parsley flakes
1/2 tablespoon of dill weed
1/2 teaspoon of thyme
1 cup of instant milk
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1/8 cup of crushed bacon bits
Mix all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl except for the bacon bits. In your food processor or by hand grind up the bacon bits until they appear crumbled up. This will allow them to combine with the other ingredients better. After crumbling up the bacon bits add them to the mixture and stir well until they are evenly mixed with the other products.
Package the final product in quart jars and place an oxygen absorber in each. The jars of potato soup should store nicely for at least eight to ten years.
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