This is a simple, delicious vegetable soup recipe that I made a couple weeks ago.  As a meal by itself it probably serves four to six.
You need a couple tablespoons of oil, an onion, two celery ribs, two carrots, two cloves of garlic, five cups of chicken stock/broth or vegetable broth, two medium russet potatoes [...]

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I just wanted to point out a delicious creamy baked potato soup recipe from the personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly.  It’s pretty cheap, pretty healthy, and tastes really good.  It’s thick enough, too, to work as a whole meal.
All you need is 3-5 russet medium to small russet potatoes (I used five, a couple [...]

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This post is part of a series called Cooking 101, which introduces the basics of cooking. The series follows the book Culinary Fundamentals, with supplements from The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America. Check out the previous posts here.
Unit 14: Stocks
Part 1: Chicken Stock
Stocks are important bases for countless dishes [...]

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This post is part of a series called Cooking 101, which introduces the basics of cooking. The series follows the book Culinary Fundamentals, with supplements from The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America. Check out the previous posts here.
Unit 13: Basic Mise en Place
Part 3: Sachet d’Épices and Bouquet Garni
You [...]

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This creamy pumpkin soup recipe is supposed to be easy, and for most of you, it will be. It’s actually a very tasty soup - much better than the list of ingredients makes it appear. My struggle simply came in getting the pumpkin open - it had a rock hard shell around the [...]

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