Broccoli Cheddar Soup
A thick, smooth broccoli cheddar soup that stays velvety instead of grainy: a light roux, small florets simmered just tender, and sharp cheddar stirred in off the heat.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Soups
Bowls for cold evenings and long spoons.
Bowls for cold evenings. Some are twenty-five minutes on the hob, others are a whole chicken and an afternoon.
Two rules keep coming up: cook pasta separately unless you are eating it all tonight, and never boil cream in an acidic broth.
Lasagna Soup
Everything good about lasagna in one pot: Italian sausage and tomato broth, broken noodles cooked right in the soup, and a spoonful of seasoned ricotta and melting mozzarella on every bowl.
- Total time
- 55 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chicken Tortilla Soup
A brick-red broth built from blended charred tomatoes, onion and chiles, simmered with chicken thighs and finished with crisp homemade tortilla strips, avocado, lime and cotija.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Serves 6
Beef Vegetable Soup
A hearty, old-fashioned vegetable beef soup: chuck browned hard and simmered until tender in a tomato-beef broth, with the vegetables added in stages so none of them turn to mush.
- Total time
- 2 hr 25 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Egg Drop Soup
Restaurant-style egg drop soup in fifteen minutes: seasoned chicken broth lightly thickened with cornstarch, with beaten eggs poured in a thin stream for long, silky ribbons.
- Total time
- 15 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
French Onion Soup
Onions cooked slowly to deep brown, simmered in beef stock with a splash of wine, and finished under the broiler with toasted baguette and bubbling Gruyère.
- Total time
- 2 hr 5 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Crock Pot Gnocchi Soup
Sausage, spinach and a cream broth built over four hours. The gnocchi go in for the last thirty minutes.
- Total time
- 4 hr 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Wild Rice Soup
Creamy, mushroomy and thick with grain. The wild rice cooks separately because it takes three times as long as anything else.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Serves 6
Farmhouse Chicken Noodle Soup
A whole chicken poached into its own stock, then shredded back in. The noodles cook separately and that is not fussiness.
- Total time
- 1 hr 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Creamy Spinach Tortellini Soup
Twenty-five minutes, one pot. The cream goes in off the heat and the tortellini go in last.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chicken and Stars Soup
The canned soup of everybody's childhood, made with real thigh meat and stelline cooked apart from the broth so it stays clear.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6