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Chowders, Bisques, and Gumbos

From our specialty corn chowder to our favorite gumbo recipes, cook up one of our decadent specialty soups. Go ahead - add breadcrumbs or dip delicious breads in your favorite soup.

Creole Onion Soup

Three cheeses--parmesan and two cheddars--liven this onion soup that's flavored with garlic, pepper and herbs. A "roux," a popular technique in Creole cooking, is ma...

Frontier Chowder

This hearty chowder contains ground beef, green pepper, onion and corn. It also uses both condensed bean with bacon and tomato soups, and can be ...

Oxtail Barley Soup

A rich, full flavored soup with potatoes, barley and simmered oxtails.

Red Beans and Rice with Smoked Sausage

A traditional red beans and rice dish with smoked sausage that will satisfy any hunger.

New England Clam Chowder

The 'white' chowder with lots of clams and potatoes topped with smoky bits of bacon that is a staple on the East Coast.

Wisconsin Cheese Soup

A classic northern soup made with carrots and broccoli that is swimming in a tangy sharp cheddar cheese broth.

Corn Chowder with Ham

This chowder contains not just ham and cream-style corn, but also has potatoes, carrot, onion, cheese and both milk and evaporated milk.

French Onion Soup

Sliced onions, sauteed in butter, are cooked with chicken broth, white wine and a little cognac, then served in individual crocks with cheese-topped slices of ...

Ham Chowder

Ham and basil flavor this easy potato chowder. It's a quick soup to fix on a busy weeknight.

Baked Potato Soup

Baked potatoes are scooped out and cut into pieces to stir into this soup that contains a flour-thickened milk mixture with butter, green onion, bacon ...

Shanghai's Red Clam Chowder

Try this Manhattan style clam chowder with bacon, potatoes, onion, celery, and tomatoes.

Jambalaya

Cubes of chicken, onion, green pepper, celery and garlic are cooked with Rotel tomatoes, additional green chilies and jumbo shrimp, and served over rice.

Corn Chowder

A wonderful, creamy corn chowder recipe flavored with bacon to warm up with on a cool autumn day.

Excellent Polish Sausage Soup

A hearty soup with polish sausage and lots of vegetables like onion, celery, cabbage, and carrots. All simmered with savory herbs in a bouquet garni.

Crab and Mushroom Bisque

Crabmeat and mushrooms are combined with milk, cream, onion, green pepper, and parsley in this lightly thickened soup, flavored with mace and bottled hot pepper ...

Nummy Baked Potato Soup

Serve this warming potato soup for lunch or for supper. Baked potatoes give it a unique flavor.

Curried Cauliflower Bisque

Curry and coconut milk flavor this cauliflower soup. Serve as an appetizer or as a side dish.

Kabocha Squash Corn Chowder

Kabocha squash has a flavor similar to pumpkin. Cook it with corn in this soup, or substitute acorn or butternut squash.

Jillybobs Gumbo

This gumbo starts with the traditional roux, and adds andouille sausage, chicken, shrimp, tomatoes, okra, onions, bell pepper, and a number of seasonings.

Cream Cheese Dill Potato Soup

This creamy potato soup uses frozen hash browns that are cooked in a flour-thickened mixture of milk, light cream, butter and dillweed. Cream cheese gives ...

Creamy Sockeye Salmon and Bulgur Chowder

This chowder combines salmon cubes with leek, fennel, bulgar, yogurt, cream-style corn and vermouth in chicken broth.

Vidalia Vichysoisse

Instead of the usual potatoes and leek, this vichysoisse uses large sweet onions with just a small amount of potato, plus chicken broth and light ...

Mother-in-Law Hamburger Soup

This soup uses a cooked mixture of tomatoes, beef consomme, onion, carrots, celery tops, and parsley, blended smooth, and combined with cooked ground beef and ...

Creamy Crawfish Chowder

Cauliflower adds to the texture of this crawfish chowder. Cream soup and cream cheese add richness.

Crispy Tortilla Chicken Chowder

Baked tortilla chips are softened and then blended with chicken broth to thicken this soup. Chicken, corn, cumin, and salsa add a Mexican flavor.

Battleswharf Okra Gumbo

Vegetable Tomato Soup

Golden Potato Soup

Sun-Dried Tomato Bisque

Pacific Rim Potato Soup

Smoked Salmon & Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

Roasted Tomato Soup

Mushroom Soup

Nuevo Corn Chowder with Grilled Shrimp and Cil...

3-Bean Soup

Ed's Clam Chowder

Creamy Spinach Egg Drop Bisque

Madre's Creamy Chicken Con Carne

Potato and Asparagus Bisque

Mediterranean Red Pepper & Eggplant Chowder

Creamy Tomato-Crab Bisque with Fresh Basil

Easy Seafood Bisque

Portuguese Bean Soup

Gouda Lager Soup

Honolulu-style Crabmeat Soup

New Zealand-style Oyster Soup

Chinatown-style Shellfish Soup

Bacon Corn Chowder

Black-Eyed Pea Chowder with Ham and Cheese

Super Supper Chowder

Lentil Soup in Minutes

Bacon-Blue Cheese Soup

Oceanside Soup

Creamy Two-Cheese Vegetable Lasagna Soup with ...

Sockeye Salmon & Wild Rice Chowder

Green Chili Chicken Chowder

Lisa D's Corn and Mushroom Chowder

Chowder Surprise

Smoked Salmon Chowder

Butternut Squash Bisque Wannabe

Blue Cheese & Zucchini Soup

Red Eye Bisque

Crab Chowder

Thai Spiced Chicken & Pumpkin Chowder

Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

Curried Harvest Chowder

E-Z Homemade Winter Chili Potato Soup

Maine Dark Ale and Black Bread Soup

Fall Squash Soup

Old-Fashioned Bean Soup with Ham

Sweet Potato Andouille Soup

Broccoli Soup

Spicy Tuscan Soup

Cranberry-Apple Butternut Squash Soup

Billi-Bi

Cream of Crab Bisque

Buttternut Squash and Lentil Bisque

Sausage, Bean, and Kale Soup

Cranberry Apple Cider Soup

Roasted Poblano Cod Chowder

Homemade Turkey Soup

Andouille, Shrimp and Orzo Soup

Savory Sweet Potato Soup

Hearty Country Soup

Ebob's Veggie Gazpacho Soup

Roasted Garlic Tomato Soup

Iowa Pride Chowder

Cream of Mac and Cheese Soup with Broccoli

Italian Sausage-Potato Soup

Savory Black Bean Soup in Bread Bowls

Curried Scallops with Kumquats

Sausage Souper Meal

Ham-Cheddar Chowder

Roasted Squash Soup

Deluxe Baked Potato Soup

Pickle Barley Soup

Vegetable Soup

Potato and Ham Soup

Low Carb Cream Broccoli Soup

Thai Sweet Potato Soup

Red Beans Bourginon

Best Clam Chowder

Creamy Chicken Tarragon Soup

Taryn's Original Peanut Soup

Poor Man's Pork Chli

Broc-Caul-Po

Cheese and Vegetable Chowder

Seafood Chowder

Fall Chowder

Chick Pea and Sweet Potato Soup

Creole Gumbo

Buttermilk Peach Soup

Low-fat New England Clam Chowder

Easy Idaho Soup

Curried Pumpkin Soup

Buffalo Chicken Chowder

Cheesy Seafood Bisque

Cajun Red Beans and Rice

Spicy Chicken and Corn Chowder

Easy Cajun Style Corn Soup

Easy Seafood Gumbo


Seafood-and-Fennel Chowder

Fennel does wonders for this soup: Its subtle flavor brings out the sweetness of the seafood. If fennel is not available, you can substitute celery.

Tuna-Corn Chowder

This hearty tuna and corn chowder is seasoned with onion and dill weed.

Crab Chowder

This winning chowder features crabmeat, the prize of all seafood. It's even more enticing with bouquet garni seasoning, which is a mixture of several herbs, ...