Indiana-based food blogger and photographer Shelly Westerhausen Worcel has created a cookbook that dishes up soups, stews, ramen, gazpacho and more for every season of the year. Her goal for the book, she says, was to “bring soup out of just the cold months they are associated with and showcase recipes that can be enjoyed all year long. This meant incorporating a healthy mix of cold, warm, rich, light, creamy, filling, and chunky soups/stews/chowders to fit any time of year.”
The recipes range from Roasted Tomato Soup and Broccoli-Cheddar Soup to White Bean Hot Dish and Savory Corn-Poblano Pudding. Divided into seasonal chapters, the recipes are accompanied by chapters on Soup Enhancers like Candied Bacon and Shredded Chicken, and Accompaniments like Quick Yogurt Flatbread and Cranberry Chili Beer Bread.
Each soup recipe comes with preparation instructions for stovetop, Instant, or slow cooker, along with suggestions for re-purposing leftovers and spicing them up with greens, grains, sauces, and toppings.