One of the more noted comfort foods would be soups. A warm bowl of soup on a cold, furious or snowy weather is the complete solution to all the gloom. It’s like a warm snuggle or a burst of sunshine with rays strong enough to melt the icicles gathering on the roof of the house.

1. SOUP RECIPES

2. One of the more famous comfort foods would be
soups. A steaming bowl of soup on a cold, raging
or snowy weather is the complete solution to all the
gloom. It’s like a hearty snuggle or a burst of
sunshine with rays strong enough to melt the
icicles gathering on the roof of the house. Hot and
savory soup beats the cold mist with
steam, fogging up eyeglasses as one nurses
spoonful after spoonful of the broth. Soups recipes
bring about this consoling feeling, reflecting the
attention the cook nurtures a pot of broth or
stock, with which most outstanding soups start out.

3. Scrumptious soups can be as hearty as the
elements you put on the pot. Meat, poultry and
seafood provide the much-needed protein in both
the broth and as main or supplementary
ingredient. Vegetables, herbs and spices
contribute vitamins and anti-oxidants that give
soup its healing properties. In fact, in Chinese
herbal medicine, soup with special herbs and
ingredients are often prescribed to heal an ailment
or malady. Perhaps that’s why chicken soup is
often given to those with colds and flu.

4. A hearty broth is made from boiling
specified ingredients according to
the soup recipes. For chicken
soup, the cook boils either the whole
chicken, its bones or just parts of the
chicken. Vegetables are added into
the stock for more savor. Same goes
for making beef, fish and vegetable
stocks. Other ingredients that can be
added after the whole soup is made
include pasta or noodles, common in
Asian style soups.

5. While meat is common in soups, there are also
all-vegetable soups. Try the Austrian cabbage
soup, barley vegetable chowder (a thick soup
with seafood or vegetables), or the more colorful
carrot soup or corn soup.

6. Soup recipes also tend to be
thin and watery. But if you
want something a bit
richer, try the thick and
creamy soups. Examples
include cream of
cauliflower, artichoke, pea
and vegan broccoli-
cauliflower. There are also
nut soups like the African
peanut soup and the
chestnut soup.

7. While soups recipes is normally regarded as hot and
cooked in boiling temperatures, there are also cold
soup recipes that bring the same comfort. After
cooking briefly in heat, this kind of soup is allowed to
cool because the flavors come out more in that
temperature, as well as the ingredient itself. Classic
cold soups are tomato or fruit-based. Try the
blueberry soup thickened with tapioca or the berry
buttermilk soup which combines the tanginess of both
berries and buttermilk. The chocolate soup is pretty
much like hot chocolate but this one is served
chilled, prepared with dark chocolate, milk and cream
with cinnamon for that special taste.

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