My Family's Favorite Soup Recipes

     "MMMM", I love making homemade soups during the cooler months. There is nothing like that feeling when the kids come home from school and the scent of homemade chicken soup is in the air from it cooking all day. Homemade Soup recipes are full of vegetables and meat and are healthy and nutritious.  Add a big healthy salad, bread and butter, and there's your dinner.

Nana's Chicken Tortellini soup

Aunt Sally's Cream of Mushroom Soup

Judi's Easy Crab Bisque

Jack's Venison Vegetable Soup

To help preparations of cooking dinner go fast and easy, I always keep fresh garlic, onions, and shallots in a basket on my kitchen counter.  They are kept at room temperature and will stay fresh for 2 weeks.  Displaying the onions, shallots, and garlic in a basket can be both handy and decorative.

    I like to use fresh herbs in all of my cooking.  I keep fresh parsley, rosemary, and thyme on hand at all times. They keep best if, after you return from the grocery store, wash them, wrap them in a moist paper towel and put them in a plastic bag in the fridge. They should stay good for 2 weeks. Most of my soup recipes I double when making them.  We eat one batch the day I make it, and freeze the other for a busy night when there is no time to cook.