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Every Season Is Soup Season

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I’m usually only a fan of soup in the colder months but some of the spring and summer ones sound sound good! I love the layout and the recipes are easy enough to follow along. The pictures of the soups and food are clear and look absolutely delicious. I also really like how there are recipes to repurpose your leftovers and recipes for sides to accompany or enhance your soup.

Definitely recommend for anyone who loves soup, cooking, and easy meals to gift others

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Who knew there were so many different soups? Such creative recipes. Sure to be something for everyone's taste. Check out, EVERY SEASON IS SOUP SEASON.

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I like that the recipes are separated by season and that the graphics look amazing. I'm not too big of a soup person but I did enjoy these recipes.

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I love a good soup book! This one separates soup by season but I never hold a soup to that. Soup should not be limited to a time of year. I always do soup by cravings.

What did I like? So I bookmarked a few soups to try. Broccoli and cheese, corn chowder, and French onion are a great place to start! I like to see what people do to make this soup their own. Plus it’s always delicious!

Would I recommend or buy? I think this book had quite a few different soups to offer. Nice pictures and some soup favorites make me want a copy for myself. I’d recommend to people looking to try a few soups outside basic ones. I enjoyed looking at and deciding which ones to try.

I received a complimentary copy to look at and offer a opinion.

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The title and the cover is the first thing that caught my eye. The soups look so delicious that I just had to give this cookbook a try. It's winter time where I am right now, Australia, which is weird to say since it is July and I am used to it being Summer. A nice soup is good sounding and tasting when the weather is a bit cold, especially with the high winds we have been having. A good soup warms you all the way through the bones.

The Table of Contents organizes all the soups by Season, which is something that I have not seen before. It also includes a section for soup enhancers and accompaniments. There were not a lot of soups in the cookbook that I found I wanted to try, but a few such as the roasted tomato soup, smoked paprika tortilla soup, french onion soup, and cream of asparagus to name a few. I am not a super adventurous person when it comes to my soups, I like them basic where I can taste everything and some of these were just too much for me or we couldn't try as they contain peanuts.

Each recipe comes with a picture and the pictures make you want to eat the soup right out of the book. You really do eat with your eyes first in this case. Just looking at the pictures make me hungry. The recipes are easy to follow and for the most part they include ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. I enjoyed that the ingredients included were primarily fresh whole ingredients including the homemade vegetable broth recipe that is included. My family and I are trying to eat less processed foods and this cookbook makes that easier.

The recipes included in the book will have quick fix suggestions, alternative cooking method instructions such as using a pressure cooker, and instructions for how to store. The author makes sure that these items are easy to identify by the use of the pointing finger or the brightly colored box for the quick fix suggestions.

There are no nutritional information, which is something that I wish all cookbooks had in additional to pictures. It does give you the approximate servings for each recipe, which is always helpful to know. There are some random photos of landscaping or people, which I felt was unnecessary for a cookbook.

Rating: 3 out of 5 because I am certainly going to give some of these recipes a try. I just wish they had the nutritional information. As mentioned above, I also felt that there were some unnecessary photos.

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This is a really nice book! I am a huge soup lover so receiving this ARC was super-exciting to me! Great recipes, but what is really cool are to the photographs! The scenery pics help set the mood for soup and are beautifully shot. Not to mention the actual soup pics! I am definitely buying this in hardback when it comes out just to have a copy and add it to my cookbook collection. But, back to the recipes. The Chipotle Cocoa Three-Bean Chili is divine! I think my other favorite was the Smoked Paprika Tortilla Soup and we even did the leftovers the next night in the Nachos. Nachos? What? Just buy the book! If you are a true soup lover, you won't be disappointed!

Thank you to #NetGalley, Shelly Westerhausen Worcel and Chronicle Books for this ARC. All opinions are my own.
I will publish my review to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Instagram and various other retail and social media sites upon publication.

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I am in total agreement with the author of this wonderful cookbook. It is always a good time for a yummy bowl of soup no matter the temp outside. This is good for all levels of cook. The author shares all of the basics of soup making, divides the recipes into season per her thinking, writes easy to follow delicious recipes (I've made quite a few already) and gives ideas of how to tailor then based on our own tastes as well with how to repurpose any leftovers. All the recipes are vegetarian, but with ideas and suggestions as to adding various proteins and enhance with toppers as well. What I really like about this book is it allows and endorses creativity and ways to use some leftovers to create something new and delicious eliminating waste. Lovely photography accompanies the recipes, I’ve made quite a few already and they’ve been a big hit. A great cookbook for any kitchen, but this would also make a wonderful gift. I know everyone just googles everything this days, but there is something special about a collection of cookbooks and this belongs on everyones shelf.

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I love soup no matter what time of year. It's a great way to use any extra veggies or meat we have after ledtovers have become boring. This book has several recipes that look amazing. I can't wait to actually make them. There are some that I will never try as well. Over all a pretty good book on soup.

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If you know anything about me, you know this title is all I need to be intrigued.

The book is divided seasonally and I guess because it will be published September 19 we start off strong with fall and the first recipe: Gruyère, Cauliflower, and Potato Soup! It is as mouthwatering as it sounds and it includes pickled mustard seeds! Game changer!

I am aware that this review already has too many exclamation marks, but wait there's more! Worcel also includes "new twists" for the soups. They are ways to repurpose your leftover soup and the Gruyère, Cauliflower, and Potato Soup can be used to make Gruyère, Cauliflower, and Potato "Gravy" that you can drizzle over biscuits and eggs!

Fall also includes a Pumpkin and White Bean Soup with Brown Butter Sage, Smoked Paprika Tortilla Soup, and my favorite from this section: Coconut Pumpkin Curry Red Lentil Stew.

Winter has a French Onion Soup. I know what you are thinking. Basic, right? Maybe, but the new twist is a a French Onion Strata Bake which is like a savory bread pudding! Honestly the winter offerings are not as exciting as the fall recipes, but I'd still like to try the Potato & Pea Stew with Indian Spices, the Sweet Potato & Leek Peanut Stew (and its New Twist: Spicy Peanut Noodle Stir Fry), and the Roasted Root Vegetables and Dumpling Soup (which can be used to make Dumpling Frittata with Gruyère).

I love a black-bean soup and spring includes a Pressure Cooker Black Bean Soup with Orange and Cumin. I'm not sure how I feel about orange in my black-bean soup, but I am willing to try it and will update this review when I do. Spring also brings a Caramelized Spring Onion Ramen, a Smoky French Lentil Soup with White Balsamic Reduction (that can be repurposed into a Rice & Lentil Pilaf with Pickled Raisins and Pistachios), and a Spring Vegetable Chowder.

Summer also starts off strong with a Gazpacho Verde with Ginger Vinaigrette that can be reused in a Tomato-Cucumber Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette & Verde Sauce. This is followed by a more classic Tomato-Watermelon Gazpacho that, and here's where it gets interesting, can be used as a mixer to create a Bloody Maria with Pickled Watermelon Wedges! then there's the Summer Garden Minestrone that can be used to make Loaded Quinoa Burgers; a Corn & Roasted Poblano Chowder that can be used to make Corn & Roasted Poblano Fritters; and last but not least, a soup that's not really a soup: Dark Chocolate S'mores Soup.

The book finishes with two additional sections that feature recipes for soup enhancements (frizzled shallots, pickled mustard seeds, honeyed-feta with black & white sesame seeds, fennel-rye croutons, etc.) and accompaniments (peach-poblano slaw, lemon-poppyseed popovers, sun-dried tomato and manchego biscuits, brown butter pumpkin cornbread, etc).

Writing down these recipe names I realize that many are, in fact, basic; but that does not take away that from the fact that they are delicious. Each recipe is accompanied by a photo of the finished product which I always appreciate.

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I absolutely love soup and this book does not disappoint! It's really cool how the soup recipe ingredients are used in different forms as well. For example, the Potato and Pea stew becomes fritters!! The recipes move through the seasons so you can eat soup all year and I loved the added bonus of soup add-ons at the end.

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There are so many fantastic easy to make recipes in this book. Looking through the pages had my mouth watering and craving all the hearty comforting foods featured in Soup Season. I loved that the book had more than just your traditional soups, there's recipes for pastas, dips, salads and more. The Ricotta gnocchi with Vodka Sauce, the smoky french lentil soup, the caramelised onion ramen, and the savoury corn-poblano pudding particularly caught my attention. The book features great retro inspired photography that makes every dish look delicious. I imagine soup would be a hard to make look appetising in photos, yet they certainly have! It features a flavour guide which helps you to create a balanced soup, along with tips on what to do when the flavours not quite right. I'm guilty of making my soups too salty and really liked that Soup Season had easy tips to fix those little cooking errors. There's also tips for storing and freezing, some soup enhancing add on recipes, seasonal menu ideas, some colourful fun graphics between the pages, and easy to read recipe layouts. Soup Season would make the perfect addition to any kitchen.

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Firstly, I'd like to thank the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an eARC of this cookbook in exchange for an honest review!

I will say this book ALMOST hit the mark for me. I didn't quite like the way it was divided into season, although I do kind of understand why it was done that way.

WHAT I FREAKING LOVED is that it gave you recipes to use leftover soup, which is especially helpful with ones that aren't freezer friendly. Not only that, but it let you know if a soup was freezer friendly or not, which was helpful when meal prepping.

The few recipes I tried were tasty, I look forward to trying a few more!

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How can you go wrong with a book about soup? A few years ago my goal was to get really good at making soup and I wish I had this book then! There are a lot of good recipes and better yet, some tips to how to make the best soup ever.

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I can't wait to try out these recipes and I what I really enjoyed flipping through the pages is that the recipes are easy to follow with mostly staple ingredients. I also loved the photos.

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Wow I loved this cookbook. There were two things that set apart this cookbook for me (other that the amazing photos):
1. Recipes separated by season.
Obviously you can make whatever soup you want whenever you want, but I'd see a recipe and automatically think "oh yeah, that totally is a spring soup." In the summer, you aren't going to want to spend too much time on the hot stove top, so you'll want something faster than a winter soup that can sit a simmer for hours.
2. Its not just soup *gasp*
There were ideas for sides to serve with it or ways to make the soup go further (i.e. scoop out the bits and serve as a topping on toast)

This was fun and and a cookbook I can definitely see myself actually using.

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This was an interesting cookbook! I often say that I could eat soup every day if I could. This cookbook had lots of recipes for different soups and recipes for things you can make with your soups. While I didn’t try any of the recipes (yet), they appear to be straightforward and clear. Can’t wait to make some soup!

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I am a big fan of soups and a professional chef for a living, so this seemed like a fun cookbook for me to check out! When going into the subject of soups, I wasn't expecting anything mind blowing. I figured it would mostly be tried and true classics with beautiful pictures. While that was partially accurate, I think this book actually goes quite a bit farther.

This book contains a great balance of old classics and unique soups. There were some soups in here that were quite unique to me, which surprised me. I also loved some new twists on old favorites like chili.

I also loved that this book used unique, but easy to make garnishes for each dish. Professional kitchens use garnishes, oils, etc. to make dishes pop, so this is teaching home cooks the basic steps to doing that.

And possibly my favorite thing about this book is the way each soup is repurposed in a second recipe. EX: Turning a tomato soup into a vodka sauce or a broccoli cheddar soup into a baked pasta dish. It allows you to take one night of cooking and turn it into multiple meals, which I love.

The photos in this are also spectacular! Soup can be hard to photograph since there isn't as many height layers, but this was done so well in this book! It would make a great coffee table book.

*Thank you to Netgalley, Shelly Westerhausen Worcel, and Chronicle Books for the advance copy. This in no way affects the objectivity of my review.

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I've always been a firm believer that soup is an always kinda food. Today is a dreary, gross, rainy day and this book definitely helped brighten my day so much. I had all the ingredients on hand already for the Broccoli Cheddar Soup and it turned out delicious! There's a follow-up recipe that includes the soup as an ingredient for a broccoli cheddar pasta dish and I couldn't be more excited to try it out.

The recipes in this book are well-written, easy to follow, and also so yummy! The pictures are also gorgeous, like scrolling through one of those fancy foodie Instagram pages.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book ahead of release in exchange for an honest review.

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of “Every Season is Soup Season” by Shelly Westerhausen Worcel. All opinions all my own.

This cookbook is such a good idea!! I love the title. The photography is beautiful, vibrant images of delicious looking food. The receipts are unique and I can’t to try some of them.

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I was looking for a good soup cookbook. I chose to make asparagus soup and it turned out very good. Simple enough to follow the recipe. I only viewed this book for Kindle but it's bet it even prettier in print, especially the pictures. I was also interested in the black bean soup but it required a kitchen gadget that I do not own so I wish there had been an adaption available for that recipe. Next, time I think I'll make the chowder.

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