Vegetable Beef Soup Recipes Biography
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The combinations of ingredients used in soups are endless. Most soup recipes are adaptable to seasonal or on-hand ingredients.
For example, if a vegetable soup recipe calls for a cup of carrots and you don’t have carrots, but there are some leftover green beans in the refrigerator, they can easily be substituted. Or if the recipe calls for a type of bean that is not in your pantry, another bean can be substituted. The strength of seasoning used in soup can vary according to personal preference. Less can be used for the delicate palette and more for the person preferring a strongly seasoned soup.
Soups need a flavorful liquid for the base. Frequently, the base is a commercially prepared chicken, beef or vegetable broth. A low-sodium version of broth can be used, or to reduce sodium further, you can make your own broth using only the lowest-sodium ingredients. Sometimes tomato or vegetable juice is used as a base. Again, a low-sodium or no-salt-added version can be substituted.
Some ingredients add dimension to a soup. The natural flavor and texture of vegetables such as potatoes for cream of potato soup or the butternut squash used in our featured recipe today add depth. Poultry, meat or seafood and ingredients such as garlic, onion or leeks lightly sauteed in a small amount of oil also can be used to add a depth of flavor and texture.
Flavors need to be balanced. For example, if a tomato-based soup is too tart or sour, it may need a tiny bit of honey or sugar. Sometimes soup needs a bit of an acidic flavor, and a little vinegar, tomato paste or some citrus will balance it. If it is too bland and no salt has been added, just a touch of salt can make a big difference. Black pepper or a few drops of hot sauce also can be added to balance flavors.
When tasting the soup, consider if the flavor could be improved with the addition of a little bit of sweet, bitter, salty, sour or savory. Then add just a bit and adjust accordingly. Don’t be afraid to experiment with the flavors.
ome soups are high in fat but can be made with lower-fat ingredients. For example, a creamy soup made with whole milk or cream can be made much lower in fat by substituting skim milk and adding additional herbs or spices to enhance the flavor. The soup can be made thicker and creamier by stirring in pureed vegetables. Most people don’t eat enough vegetables, and it is easy to get an extra serving or two of vegetables pureed in a bowl of soup.
Reduced-fat cheese can be substituted for whole-milk cheese. Less oil can be used to saute vegetables. Be creative when preparing soups and look for ways to make them healthier.
Finally, the soup needs to be garnished. The garnish should complement the flavor and texture of the soup. For example, fresh chopped cilantro would nicely garnish a Southwestern-style soup. Some grated reduced-fat cheddar cheese would be a good garnish for a cream of potato or broccoli soup. A spicy Indian soup could be garnished with spoonful of yogurt.
Soups should be loaded with nutrients and wonderful rich flavor. Our featured soup, Autumn Butternut Squash Soup with Roasted Pumpkin Seeds, is nutritious and wonderfully satisfying, thick and delicious. This winter squash is long-necked and bell-shaped with a smooth tan skin. It has a small seed cavity and provides a large amount of flesh for the size. The orange flesh is nutrient-dense, providing a rich source of beta carotene and a good source of fiber. It has a flavorful and rich sweetness
You can’t cook by time. Bake, yes, but not cook. How long something takes to reach the desired outcome involves many factors. The size and composition of the vessels you are using, the strength of your heat, and the BTU’s of your stovetop, the temperature, age, and quality of the food you are using. It’s physics and chemistry.
But how do you know when you’re right? And how do you repeat it? Practise and finding out why. Practise keenly observing how things change appearance as they are cooking. The glistening beads of red on the top of a steak means it’s heading towards medium-rare. When the sides of a raw scallop stand at attention, the scallop is medium-rare. Your quinoa is mushy and you use two parts water to one part quinoa. Have you ever thought about using less water? Have you ever thought about using more water, a lot more water, and cooking the quinoa until its almost done and draining off the water to achieve a tender and fluffy kernel? It will continue cooking as it sits in the sieve. That’s physics. Heat and mass.
Recipes are usually written in a kind of short hand. The recipe author assumes a certain level of skill on the part of the reader. Skills like knowing you should peel vegetables before chopping, washing and drying lettuce before using it in a salad, that beating only until combined means just that, or a cheesecake that was cooked in a 10-inch pan instead of a 9-inch one would probably be overbaked.
But should you blindly follow recipes? Perhaps for baking or if the author is an incredibly skilled and reputable recipe writer. Most of the chefs I know are lousy recipe writers. I know because I’ve edited their recipes. Because cooking is second nature to a chef they take it for granted and many details are left out. They write in the shortest of shorthand.
I’ve chosen two recipes, recipes in which I’ve filled in all the blanks. All the how’s and why’s of doing things in a certain way for a certain outcome. Many of the techniques used in the Beef Stew are used in many other cooking applications, from searing meat, to sautéing vegetables, to blanching and chilling to stop the cooking of a vegetable. The New York Style Cheesecake gives you basic baking skills and how to make a really good cheesecake.
You don’t have to do this, of course. Many people are content with putting a bunch of ingredients into a crockpot and turning it on. Nothing wrong with that! Cooking takes time, and concentration, and then there’s the cleaning up. Some are not content with that and want to know more or at least have the option.
Once you know how and why something works, you can improvise. The more you do it, the better you get at it. Then you will really be cooking in the best of ways.
About measurements: 1 cup is not 250 mL, it’s closer to 240 mL or to be really picky, 236.5882365 mL. I’m not even sure if anyone uses metric mLs for cooking since almost all recipes are still written using the Imperial system. Publishers decide whether they want to use the 250 mL or the 240 mL system and have their authors and writers follow suit. If it made sense for the general readership, I would prefer to use only weights for recipe measurement. The recipe would be the same every time you made it if that is what you were going for. Pastry chefs use weight measurements and I only use weight when I make sausages. It’s twice as fast as fiddling around with cups and spoons and there is less to clean up.
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