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Cream Of Mushroom Soup
Cream of mushroom soup is a simple type of soup where a basic roux is thinned with cream or milk and then mushrooms or mushroom broth are added. In North America, it is a common canned condensed soup. Cream of mushroom soup is often used as a base ingredient in casseroles and comfort foods. This use is similar to that of a mushroom-flavored gravy. History Soups made with cream and mushrooms have been made for many hundreds of years, based on French ( béchamel) cream sauces. In America, the Campbell Soup Company began producing its canned Cream of Mushroom Soup in 1934. Home cooks had already been using canned soup as a casserole or sauce base, and Campbell's started publishing its own recipes based on it in 1941. Regional usage Canned cream of mushroom soup has been described as "America's béchamel". In Minnesota, the ingredient is often called "Lutheran binder," in reference to its thickening properties and its prominence in hotdish recipes, especially in Lutheran churc ...
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Soup
Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot – though it is sometimes served chilled – made by cooking or otherwise combining meat or vegetables with Stock (food), stock, milk, or water. According to ''The Oxford Companion to Food'' (OCF), "soup" is "the most general of the terms which apply to liquid savoury dishes";Davidson, p. 735 others include broth, bisque (food), bisque, consommé, potage and many more. Although most soups are savoury, sweet soups are familiar in some parts of Europe. Soups have been made since prehistoric times, and have evolved over the centuries. Originally "sops" referred to pieces of bread covered with savoury liquid; gradually the term "soup" was transferred to the liquid itself. Soups are common to the cuisines of eastern and western countries and have been served at the grandest of banquets as well as in the humblest peasant homes. Name The term soup, or words like it, can be found in many languages. Similar terms in othe ...
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Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is Forest cover by state and territory in the United States, forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main Politics of Minnesota, political, Economy of Minnesota, economic, and C ...
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Mushroom Sauce
Mushroom sauce is a white or brown sauce prepared using mushrooms as its primary ingredient. It can be prepared in different styles using various ingredients, and is used to top a variety of foods. Overview In cooking, mushroom sauce is sauce with mushrooms as the primary ingredient. Often cream-based, it can be served with veal, chicken and poultry, pasta, and other foods such as vegetables. Some sources also suggest pairing mushroom sauce with fish. It is made with mushrooms, butter, cream or olive oil, white wine (some variations may use a mellow red wine) and pepper with a wide variety of variations possible with additional ingredients such as shallot, garlic, lemon juice, flour (to thicken the sauce), chicken stock, saffron, basil, parsley, or other herbs. It is a variety of allemande sauce. Mushroom sauce can also be prepared as a brown sauce. Canned mushrooms can be used to prepare the sauce. History Mushroom sauces have been cooked for hundreds of years. An 1864 co ...
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List Of Vegetable Soups
This is a list of vegetable soups. Vegetable soup is a common soup prepared using vegetables and leaf vegetables as primary ingredients. Vegetable soups * Atama soup – a vegetable and palm nut soup that originates in South Nigeria. * * * Cabbage soup – prepared using sauerkraut or white cabbage ** Shchi – a Russian-style cabbage soup * Caldo verde – a Portuguese soup made with potatoes and collard greens * * * * * * * * Editan – a South Nigerian soup made from editan leaf, a bitter leaf * Eru – a specialty of the Bayangi people, of the Manyu region in southwestern Cameroon, it is prepared using finely shredded leaves of the eru * * Hodge Podge * Hot and sour soup – a variety of soups from several Asian culinary traditions, some are meat-free * Kawlata – a traditional Maltese vegetable soup * Kenchin-jiru – a Japanese soup prepared using root vegetables and tofu * Kesäkeitto – a Finnish traditional vegetable soup made with vegetables and ...
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Vegetable Soup
Vegetable soup is a common soup prepared using vegetables (including leaf vegetables, and sometimes loosely mushrooms) as primary ingredients. It dates to ancient history, and in modern times is also a mass-produced food product. Overview Vegetable soup is prepared using vegetables, leafy greens, mushrooms, and roots as the main ingredients. Some fruits, such as tomato and squash, are considered vegetables in such a context. Vegetable soup can be prepared as a stock- or cream-based soup. Basic ingredients in addition to vegetables can include beef, fish, beans and legumes, grains, tofu, noodles and pasta, vegetable broth or stock, milk, cream, water, olive or vegetable oil, seasonings, salt and pepper, among myriad others. Some vegetable soups are pureed and run through a sieve, straining them to create a smooth texture. It is typically served hot, although some, such as gazpacho, are typically served cold. Vegetable soup is sometimes served as a starter or appetizer dish. Ve ...
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Tuna Casserole
Tuna casserole or tuna mornay is a casserole primarily made with pasta or rice and canned tuna. It is eaten in North America, Italy, Australia, Japan and Finland, and presumably elsewhere. In North America In North America, egg noodles are a popular choice for the pasta. It is often made with cream of mushroom soup. Peas are sometimes added, and the dish may be topped with something crunchy, such as breadcrumbs, fried onion, potato chips or corn flakes. Casseroles became popular in American households in the 1950s mainly because the ingredients were cheap and easy to find at the supermarket. In 1952, Campbell's published a book of recipes using canned soup which included a recipe for tuna casserole. Tuna casserole became popular to take to potlucks, especially in the Midwest, or taken to the home of someone who was sick or going through bereavement so that they wouldn't need to cook. In Finland In Finland the dish is called ''tonnikalavuoka'' or ''tonnikalapastavuoka'' "tuna p ...
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List Of Soups
This is a list of notable soups. Soups have been made since ancient times. Some soups are served with large chunks of meat or vegetables left in the liquid, while others are served as a broth. A broth is a flavored liquid usually derived from boiling a type of meat with bone, a spice mix, or a vegetable mix for a period of time in a stock. A potage is a category of thick soups, stews, or porridges, in some of which meat and vegetables are boiled together with water until they form a thick mush. Bisques are heavy cream soups traditionally prepared with shellfish, but can be made with any type of seafood or other base ingredients. Cream soups are dairy based soups. Although they may be consumed on their own, or with a meal, the canned, condensed form of cream soup is sometimes used as a quick sauce in a variety of meat and pasta convenience food dishes, such as casseroles. Similar to bisques, chowders are thick soups usually containing some type of starch. Coulis were ...
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Oyster Stew
Oyster stew is a stew made with oysters. It is popular in the United States and in The Gambia. In New England cuisine, oyster stew is often associated with Thanksgiving. In Southern United States cuisine, oyster stew is often prepared on Christmas Eve. There have been a number of different explanations offered for oyster stew being traditionally consumed on Christmas Eve. Bill Neal suggests that before the acceptance of refrigerated food transport, sufficient cold weather for shipping was not guaranteed before December, and so "Far from the coast, oysters became a symbol of the arrival of the winter holiday season, appearing in the markets by Christmas Eve and on tables that night as oyster stew. Stephanie Butler, however, gives an alternate explanation: Irish Catholic immigrants would not eat meat on Christmas Eve, and were used to eating stew made with ling instead. Butler suggests that "oysters taste pretty similar to dried ling: they're salty, briny and can be quite chew ...
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Cream Soup
A cream soup is a soup prepared using cream, light cream, half and half, or milk as a key ingredient. Sometimes the dairy product is added at the end of the cooking process, such as after a cream soup has been puréed. A cream soup will often have a soup base, prepared with ingredients such as onion, celery, garlic powder, celery salt, butter, bacon drippings, flour, salt, pepper, paprika, milk, light cream, and chicken stock or vegetable stock. Various vegetables or meats are then added to the base. Sometimes, leftover vegetables and meats are used in cream soups. List of cream soups A multitude of notable cream soups exist, including, but not limited to the following listed below. Additional cream soups include cream of cauliflower, cream of fennel, cream of potato, cream of corn, cream of walnut, cream of roasted pumpkin, cream of celery and cream-of-anything soup. Gallery Crema de almejas.JPG, Cream of clams soup Cream of Corn Soup.JPG, Cream of corn soup Crem ...
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List Of Mushroom Dishes
This is a list of notable mushroom dishes and foods, comprising foodstuffs prepared using mushrooms as a primary ingredient. Edible mushrooms have variety of benefits when consumed. They have essential nutrients we need for a healthy life, including protein (nutrient), protein, vitamins B vitamins, B, vitamin C, C and vitamin D, D, and selenium, which helps prevent cancer. They are a good source of iron, copper, riboflavin, Vitamin B3, niacin and contain dietary fiber. One Agaricus bisporus, portobello mushroom can contain more potassium than a banana. In many cultures, mushroom hunting, mushroom picking is an important tradition and can be a substantial source of income. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, it is estimated that, in some situations, the value of the yearly mushroom harvest in a forest can equal the value of lumber it can produce. According to the "Menus of Change" initiative of The Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health Dep ...
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Green Bean Casserole
Green bean casserole is an American baked dish consisting primarily of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french fried onions. It was popularized in the USA from a recipe printed on a soup can starting in the 1950s. It is a popular side dish for Thanksgiving dinners in the United States and has been described as ''iconic.'' The recipe was created in 1955 by Dorcas Reilly at the Campbell Soup Company. , Campbell's estimated it was served in 20 million Thanksgiving dinners in the United States each year and that 40% of the company's cream of mushroom soup sales go into a version of the dish. Background Campbell's cream of mushroom soup was created in 1955 and was the first of the company's soups to be marketed as a sauce as well as a soup. It became so widely used as casserole filler in the hotdish recipes popular in Minnesota, where Lutheranism is a popular religion, that it was sometimes referred to as "Lutheran binder". Like other food companies, Campbell's employed ...
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Clam Chowder
Clam chowder is any of several chowder soups in American cuisine containing clams. In addition to clams, common ingredients include diced potatoes, salt pork, and onions. It is believed that clams were used in chowder because of the relative ease of harvesting them. Clam chowder is usually served with saltine crackers or small, hexagonal oyster crackers. The dish originated in the Northeastern United States, but is now commonly served in restaurants throughout the country. Many regional variations exist, but the three most prevalent are New England or "white" clam chowder, which includes milk or cream; Manhattan or "red" clam chowder, which includes tomatoes; and Rhode Island or "clear" clam chowder, which omits both. History Early documentation of "clam chowder" as known today did not contain milk and was thickened during cooking using crackers or stale bread. The first recipe for Manhattan clam chowder, with tomatoes and no milk, was published before 1919, and the current ...
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