More than one hundred delectable and satisfying soup and bread pairings from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas
When eating out, Beatrice Ojakangas’s mother told her, you could never go wrong ordering soup. And then, of course, there should be bread to go with it. Beatrice has been sampling soup ever since, and in The Soup and Bread Cookbook the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer takes us along on her “soup travels,” giving us delicious tastes from throughout the world and teaching us how to make them at home. International yet rooted in the rhythm of the Minnesota seasons—ranging from the cool, refreshing soups of summer to hearty winter fare—these soups, stews, and chowders take their inspiration from farmers’ markets and local organic grocery stores: real ingredients, always, and irresistible flavors.
Whether it’s a basic broth or stock or a long-simmering vegetable-filled stew, there is a bread to go along—enough to fill a cookbook on their own, in fact. Here we have new potato spring pea soup together with chive-dill batter bread, or spicy mango melon soup with lemon poppy seed muffins, or super-simple salmon chowder with sour rye buns, or good old chicken and dumpling soup with Dutch raisin bread—or perhaps your craving is satisfied with Asian lemon-ginger soup with sesame sunflower breadsticks, or Avgolemono soup with pita bread, or Polish Easter soup with sourdough rye, or Brie and apple soup with fougasse. Whatever your palate desires, The Soup and Bread Cookbook will, as The Splendid Table suggests, “banish the Campbell’s from your cupboard forever.” Pull up a chair. Open the book. Soup’s on!
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Basics: Stocks, Broths, and Breads
Basic Chicken Stock
Two-for-One Chicken Stock
Two-for-One Beef Stock
Basic Vegetable Broth
A Glossary of Bread-Baking Basics
Fresh Baguette
A Basic Vegetable Soup
Basic Home-Baked Bread
Spring
New Potato Spring Pea Soup with Chive-Dill Batter Bread
Asparagus Soup and Turkey with Tomato Open-Faced Sandwiches
Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Herbed Biscuit Muffins
Spring Tonic Soup with Croutons with Cardamom Almond Scones
Herb Vegetable Soup with Wheat Germ Batter Bread
Root Vegetable Soup with Caraway Rye Pretzels
Sausage and Vegetable Minestra with Rosemary Focaccia
May Day Celebration Soup with Scottish Currant Bannock
Spicy Mango Melon Soup with Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Fresh Nettle Soup with Three-Grain Almond Hardtack
Asparagus Sipping Soup with Sesame Sunflower Breadsticks
Asian Lemon-Ginger Soup with Rice Buns
Italian Turkey Meatball Soup with Monkey Bread
Spring Greens Soup with Dill with Cracker Bread
Cold Minted Pea Soup with Quick-and-Easy Breadsticks
French Spring Vegetable Soup with Garlic Toast Rounds
Chunky Vegetable Soup with Cheddar Cheese Onion Scones
Spring Chicken Soup with Flowerpot Rolls
New Potato and Chive Soup with Onion-Dill Buns
Ham and Green Bean Soup with Southern Biscuits
Fresh Pea Soup with Egg Salad Sandwiches
Polish Easter Soup with Polish Sourdough Rye Bread
Cream of Spring Mushroom and Asparagus Soup with Wheat Biscuits with Sage Butter
Springtime Minestrone with Grilled Turkey Paninis
Danish Meatball and Dumpling Soup with Danish Butter Buns
Walleye Chowder with Parmesan Garlic Bread
Super-Simple Salmon Chowder with Sour Rye Buns
Summer
Cream of Summer Vegetable Soup with Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits
Fresh Tomato and Cilantro Soup with Toasted Baguette Slices with Tapenade
Spicy Revitalizer with Carrot Breadsticks
Avgolemono Soup with Pita Bread
Summer Day Herb-Scented Soup with Whole-Grain Oatmeal Bread
Lemon, Corn, and Shrimp Soup with Asian-Style Flatbread
Chilled Carrot and Orange Soup with Old-Fashioned Cream Scones
Chilled Melon Soup with Blueberry Banana Bread
Spanish Gazpacho with Skillet-Toasted Parmesan Flatbread
Chilled Avocado-Potato Soup with Bacon Parmesan Crackers
Thai Fresh Pea Soup with Red Curry and Coconut Bread
Parsnip and Tahini Soup with Pita Crisps
Spiced Zucchini Soup with Sun-Dried Tomato and Pesto Bread
Zucchini and Macaroni Soup with Herbed Toasts
10-Minute Chickpea-Tomato Soup with Parmesan-Basil Baguette Toasts
Summer Vegetable Soup with Easy Refrigerator Rolls
Smooth Spiced Broccoli Soup with No-Knead Focaccia
Quick Summer Squash Soup with Pesto and Kale Crostini
Roma Tomato Soup with Basil and Mexican-Style Cornbread
Brown Rivel Soup with Easy Amish White Bread
Cranberry Bean and Pasta Soup with Crusty Tuscan Bread
Red Kidney Bean Soup with Cheese Pupusas
Southwestern Chicken Tortilla Soup with Cowboy Beer and Cheddar Bread
Autumn
Stone Soup with Country Hearth Bread
Autumn Root Vegetable Chowder with Chive Batter Bread
Colombian Chicken and Potato Soup with Corn and AlmojÁbanas (Colombian Cheese Rolls)
Curried Chicken Wild Rice Soup with Oatmeal Batter Bread
Chicken and Dumpling Soup with Dutch Raisin Bread
Green Cabbage and Hamburger Soup with Honey Whole Wheat Cranberry-Nut Bread
Maine Corn Chowder with Whole Wheat Raisin Muffins
Brie and Apple Soup with Fougasse
Spiced Parsnip and Carrot Soup with Lavash
Cream of Fresh Mushroom Soup with Avocado-Tomato Wraps
Easy Cream of Tomato Soup with Old-Fashioned Grilled Cheese, Apple, and Basil Sandwiches
Butternut Squash Soup with Pecan Cream and Quick Yeast Buns
Moroccan Vegetable Soup with Couscous and Olive Flatbread
French Onion Soup with Crunchy Breadsticks
Leek, Sweet Onion, and Potato Soup with Spinach and Stir-It-Up-and-Bake-It Many-Seed Bread
Acorn Squash Soup with Granola Loaf
Broccoli and Cauliflower Cheddar Soup with Soft Rye Pretzels
Yam and Sweet Onion Soup with Buttermilk Corn Muffins
Finnish Chanterelle Soup with Rye and Barley Bread
Ginger-Carrot Shooters with Mini Scones
Potato-Leek Soup with Rosemary Baguette
Sweet Corn-Onion Shooters with Pine Nut and Anise Seed Breadsticks
Curried Pumpkin Soup with Peppered Cheese Bread
Mushroom-Barley Soup with Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Wheat Bread
Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup with No-Knead Whole Wheat Bread
Roasted Parsnip Root Vegetable Soup with Whole-Grain Crackers
Winter
Spicy Black Bean Soup with High-Protein Health Bread
Dutch Cheese Soup with Oatmeal Rusks
Swedish Christmas Eve Soup with Rye Dipping Bread
Oyster Soup with Brown Bread Muffins
New Year’s Good Luck Lentil Soup with Ezekiel Bread
Southern Prosperity Soup with Johnnycake
Herbed White Bean and Sausage Soup with Beer Biscuits
Cumin and Coriander Bean Soup with Black Pepper Cracker Bread
Black Bean Soup with Cheese Quesadillas
Italian Bean and Swiss Chard Soup with Easy Italian Loaf
Senate Bean Soup with Molasses Wheat Loaf
German Lentil Soup with Caraway Popovers
Pea Soup and Spareribs with Rustic Rye Bread
Swedish Yellow Pea Soup with Pork and Swedish Pancakes
Bloody Mary Sippy Soup with Overnight Mini Croissant
Borscht with Russian Black Bread
Cabbage and Apple Soup with Cheese and Olive Bread
Onion Barley Soup with Mushrooms and Honey Bran Muffins
German Potato Soup with Pumpernickel Soup Bowls
Ham and Fingerling Potato Soup with Popovers
Lamb Meatball and Root Vegetable Soup with Bazlama (Turkish Flatbread)
Beet and Red Cabbage Soup with Ground Beef Pasties
Quinoa Vegetable Soup with Savory Cheese Mini Loaves
Mulligan Stew with Irish Brown Soda Bread
Roasted Potato Cheddar Soup with Alfalfa Sprout Flatbread
Sunchoke and Golden Potato Soup with Wild Rice Pecan Bread
Feijoada with French Twist Bread
Scandinavian Fruit Soup with Orange Toasts
Index
About the Author :
Beatrice Ojakangas began her culinary career as a food editor for Sunset Magazine and went on to write for Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Redbook, Cooking Light, Country Living, Southern Living, and Ladies’ Home Journal. A columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Duluth News Tribune, she stars in the Food Network series The Baker’s Dozen and has appeared on Baking with Julia Child and Martha Stewart’s Living. She is author of thirty cookbooks, including Scandinavian Cooking, Great Old-Fashioned American Recipes, Scandinavian Feasts, and the award-winning Great Scandinavian Baking Book (all available from Minnesota). In 2005 she was selected for the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. Her memoir, Homemade: Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food (Minnesota, 2016) received a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.
Review :
"Will banish the Campbell’s from your cupboard forever."-The Splendid Table
"Perfect for traditional holiday recipes or impromptu get-togethers, every ingredient contains only in-season vegetables or fruits. Ojakangas’s creative and flavorful recipes are a soulful reminder of the ‘pleasure of soup and bread.’"-Publishers Weekly
"Perfectly paired soup and bread recipes . . . The Soup and Bread Cookbook is just the latest in a great career’s worth of notable work."-Lake Superior Magazine
"There’s so much more to sip from your spoon on a chilly day-think ginger-carrot soup, Dutch cheese soup, or a root vegetable chowder. And there’s no one better to teach us how to make it than Beatrice Ojakangas."-Lee Svitak Dean, Star Tribune
"Packed with helpful baking tips (and a few key recipes for basic breads, stocks, and broths), The Soup and Bread Cookbook lives up to its name: a treasure trove of flavorful recipes for the days when nothing but a steaming, savory bowl of soup and a warm loaf of bread will do."-Shelf Awareness
"I tend to view bread as a vehicle for sopping up the last drips from the bottom of the bowl, but in Ojakangas’s hands, it’s obvious that the relationship has much more potential . . . Ojakangas gets really inventive with her breads."-Kitchn.com
