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I love soup. I live on soup and you can too. Here are my secret recipes. All of them start out with a can of Campbell’s. (I have tried to make soup from scratch but it ends up tasting like water and veggies. I mean REALLY bland. Yes, I do add herbs. Still they are failures.) Now to the good stuff…
* Chicken Noodle: I make this three ways…either add a clove of crushed garlic or do it Greek-style and add a big squeeze of lemon or I sprinkle on crushed red peppers. Sometimes I do all three! These miraculous broths are what I call my healing soups and everyone I feed them to believes they work like magic…because they do!
*Cream of Celery: Do this one the morning after you had bacon and eggs or pancakes for dinner. Reserve two strips of bacon. Then make up your celery soup as usual and crumble the leftover bacon into the simmering soup. Tasty!
* Vegetable Beef: This is a really good idea for those days when you were so busy doing stuff that you forgot to eat. Put your soup on. Oh, add a quarter can more water than usual. Meanwhile make dumplings right off the Bisquick box. Well, actually half the recipe: 1 cup Bisquick, 1/3 cup water. When the soup comes to a boil, drop spoonfuls of dumpling dough into the saucepan. Cook as it says on the box: 10 minutes uncovered, 10 minutes covered. This is hearty and delicious.
*Cream of Mushroom: Slice up 5 mushrooms and sauté them in butter. Add the soup and the milk. Heat. This is deluxe. Good enough for a party. Use the rest of the mushrooms with the rib eyes you will make for dinner.
*Cream of Chicken: This is actually a brunch thing I do. Crack open a can of flaky biscuits. Bake. Cook soup using only half of the milk recommended. Place biscuits on plate. Pour on some of the chicky soup. Viola! I think this might be my Northern Girl version of biscuits and gravy. Try it. You will like it.
Get well soon.
