Soups & Stew recipe collection

This is an authentic family recipe that my mother taught me in 1950 in New Orleans. It makes a great dinner party main dish. Like chinese food, it is long on chopping and assembling, but goes together and cooks rather quickly.

Cold green vegetable soup with poached fish. Source: Olga Gorechev, St. Petersburg, Russia

Scottish "Braveheart" chicken, beef and leek soup. Adapted from The Frugal Gourmet