Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 8oz onions, chopped 4oz celery, chopped 4oz leeks, chopped 3lbs broccoli stems, chopped 3oz butter 3qt chicken stock S&P to taste 1pt heavy cream 1lb broccoli florets, blanched Sweat the onions, celery, leeks and broccoli stems in butter. In a blender, or with a hand blender, blend [...]

This soup uses a few variations. Example instead of using the wine you can use your favorite beer. You can also use different kind of cheese with the cheddar. But with any of the cheeses you decide to use in this recipe, make sure you pick something thats aged because the quality of the cheese [...]

For the mushrooms in this soup you can either use a single variety or a multitude of different varieties. For instance, oyster, chanterelle, button, shitake, and or porcini can be used or any other mushrooms you may like. Also, if you would rather add white wine or sherry instead of the lemon juice, you can. [...]

If you would like to make this a vegetarian friendly meal, you could use vegetable stock in place of the chicken stock. This soup can also be made with any variety of pureed squash: butternut, hubbard, pumpkin or acorn. Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 3/4oz gingerroot, minced 12oz white wine Vegetable oil, [...]

Wild rices is always available in different sorts of quality. If possible use the “broken” variety for this soup. Evaporated skim milk can be used to finish this soup, instead of the heavy cream listed in this recipe. Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 2oz butter, clarified 12oz leeks, fine dice 4oz carrots, [...]

When making oyster bisque be sure to use oysters that are alive. This classic recipe for oyster bisque uses classic ingredients such as the long grain rice. Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 60 oysters. washed 3qts fish stock 8oz onions, diced 4oz butter 12oz converted long grain rice 1 1/2pts heavy cream [...]

Clams must be alive prior to cooking them for this recipe. Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 20 cherrystone clams, washed 1qt water 4oz salt pork, minced to a paste 4oz onion, minced 4oz celery, fine dice 3 1/2oz all purpose flour 3/4lb potato’s, medium dice 1qt milk, scalded 12oz heavy cream Salt, [...]

You can also use many other ingredients besides asparagus, such as mushrooms, celery, broccoli or even pumpkins and gourds. If your using pumpkins or gourds you will need to cook them for about 20-25 minutes. Serves 4 3/4C water 3/4t salt 1LB asparagus, cut in 1/4 inch pieces 1C light cream 1/8t pepper 1/4t dill [...]

For the pasta in this dish you can use a multitude of different pastas, this one uses ditalini. But you can use vermicelli, tubettini, or even spaghetti. Just be sure to make the pieces small. Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 2oz salt pork, ground 2oz olive oil 1lb onions, thinly sliced 8oz [...]

Servings: 8 servings, or two cups per person 2oz bacon, diced Oil, as needed 8oz carrots, diced 8oz celery, diced 8oz onions, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 6oz all purpose flour 2qts chicken stock 2lbs tomato’s, chopped 24oz tomato puree S&P to taste 1bay leaf 1 clove, whole 1 1/2pt light cream (hot) Cook the [...]