Souped Up!: More Than 100 Recipes for Soups, Stews, and Chilis, and the Breads, Salads, and Sweets to Make Them a Meal

This is one of the best cookbooks on the subject of soups I have ever seen. The recipes are easy to follow and every one has been fantastic. My family has been very happy with my results from using Souped Up. After making a few of Sally's soups you begin to think about flavors and spices differently as they apply to stocks and commonly available bases. I bought 4 copies of this book and gave one to each of my children and my sister who is a good cook. They all said they liked and use it frequently. Thank you Sally, great little book and a nice selection of tastes.

GREAT SOUP RECIPES FOR YOU SOUP COOKS. I LOVE TO MAKE UP MY OWN SOUPS WITH WHATEVER I CAN FIND. THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU TO RISE TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH THE RECIPES AND IDEAS. GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COOKS' WAREHOUSE OF BOOKS.

I am a huge fan of soup...it can be a simple, stand-alone dish or an elegant addition to a 5 course meal. I picked up this book to find some new ideas to make soup, and I have come away with some great offerings. Some of my favorites include: Cream of Broccoli (it never tastes good unless homemade!), Potato and Celeriac, Creamy Vegetable, Mushroom, Barley & Leek, Hunter's Soup, Spicy Black Bean, Pasta e Fagioli, Three Bean, Beef Chili with Beer, Curried Chicken Stew, and Cocoa Cookies. The book includes sections on salad dressings, breads, and sweets to go along with your homemade soup. The only improvements that could be made with this book would be to add color photographs of the dishes, and a spiral binding so that it could lay flat. Otherwise, the recipes are delicious and offer a great variety. Enjoy!

I love this book, and have started making at least one soup recipe a week from it. It's tough deciding which one to cook, in fact. What I love about it: The recipes are not complicated, and do not call for obscure, hard to find ingredients. She explains things very well and offers helpful tips. Many of the recipes are very inexpensive, too. In addition, most of the recipes don't have big long ingredient lists, which is a big plus in my opinion. And they're not loaded with fat, either. Yet they still taste wonderful. My two favorites are the parsnip soup (which I never would've expected to like!) and the butternut squash with lime, garlic and ginger. I can't praise this book enough.