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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.

Summer Squash Chowder

A great fall soup made with summer squash. Try some squash from the farmers market.

German Vegetable Soup

More than just a vegetable soup this has ground beef, too, along with fresh and canned veggies--onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, green pepper, green beans,...

Cabbage Soup

This beef and vegetable soup combines ground beef, cabbage, celery, and onion in a broth of tomato soup, bouillon, brown sugar, and ketchup.

Cajun Creamy Potato Soup

This bacon and potato soup also contains condensed cream of chicken soup and milk. Cooked crawfish tails are added for that Cajun quality.

Squash Bisque

This recipe for squash bisque uses a package of frozen mashed winter squash, so it requires no blender to make it smooth. It also has ...

Roasted Barley Soup

Regular-cooking barley is toasted in butter and oil, then combined with beef broth, red wine, tomato paste, lemon juice, shallots, jalapenos, carrots and mushrooms a...

French-Canadian Yellow Pea Soup

Yellow split peas and ham hocks are slow-cooked in an electric cooker (crock pot) with carrots, potato, celery and herbs.

Halibut Chowder

Halibut chunks are cooked in a mixture with evaporated milk, whipping cream, celery, carrots, and onion. The mixture is then thickened with instant mashed potato ...

Bean & Squash Soup

A great fall bean and squash soup flavored with savory seasonings that everyone will enjoy.

Tomato Soup

Fresh tomatoes are cooked in chicken broth, then pureed in the blender. Milk or cream and butter is added and heated.

Tex - Mex Corn Chowder

A nice little southwestern chowder with corn, beans, and chicken to sink your teeth into. Very hearty!

Pizza Soup

Pork sausage and pepperoni are combined with mushrooms, green pepper, onion, tomatoes, and tomato soup, seasoned with Italian seasoning, garlic, basil and oregano, s...

Savory Tomato Soup

Cooked ground beef, carrots, and your choice of another cooked vegetable are heated in a mixture of tomato juice, herbs (marjoram, basil, savory and thyme), ...

Crockpot Potato Soup

Potatoes are cooked in a crock pot with ham and vegetables. Cheez Whiz is added near the end to make the soup cheesy and creamy.

Thickest, Richest, Creamiest Turkey Corn Chowder

This easy turkey chowder uses ingredients you might have on the shelf--canned corn and condensed soup. Make use of your leftover turkey or chicken and ...

Cheeseburger Chowder

Here's a quick condensed soup fix-up. Choose ground beef or turkey and add Worcestershire sauce and hot pepper sauce for extra flavor.

Clam Chowder

A nice chowder with lots of onion, bacon, potatoes, and of course, clams in a thick cream sauce spiced with cajun seasoning.

Twin Mushroom Soup

Green onion, ham, and two kinds of mushrooms--button and shiitake--are used in this lightly thickened chicken broth mixture flavored with soy sauce and sherry.

Chicken Gumbo

Chicken is added to a vegetable and tomato broth seasoned with gumbo file, bay leaves, parsley, thyme, and Worcestershire. Hot pepper sauce adds a kick.

Low-Cal New England Clam Chowder

Shucked clams are used in this New England chowder, along with potatoes, onion, celery, and seasonings. The slightly thickened broth uses fat-free cream and evaporat...

Wellfleet Clam Chowder

Fresh clams are cooked and chopped, then combined with canned potatoes, onion, bacon, corn and evaporated milk for this chowder.

Raine's Seafood Corn Chowder

This chowder recipe has crabmeat, scallops, and imitation lobster, cooked in butter, and combined with several seasonings, cream, milk, broth, potatoes, and cream-st...

Masala with Crab and Coconut Milk

This crabmeat soup contains coconut milk, chicken bouillon and a hint of marsala wine, along with onion, garlic and pepper.

Jo's Pasta e Fagioli

Chunks of turkey sausage links combine with carrots, onions, celery, tomatoes, kidney beans, kale and spiral pasta in a beefy broth flavored with oregano and ...

Chef Phil's Traditional New England Clam Chowder

You'll retain more nutrients if you don't peel the potatoes. Just scrub them well with a vegetable brush before chopping.

Smoky Turkey Corn Chowder

Traditional Icelandic Lamb Soup

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Easy Italian Tomato Bisque

Quick Tomato Chunk Soup

Cheesy Chowder

Creamy Cheesy Potato Soup

Steamer Clams & Shrimp Soup

Cajun Gumbo in 30 minutes

Fresh Pea Soup

Brandied Butternut Squash Soup with Maple Crea...

Creamy Cheezee Potato Soup

West African Fish Soup

West African Crab Soup

Samoan Seafood Soup

Louisiana-style Trout Soup

Cajun Maque Choux Chowder

Navy Bean & Ham Soup

Southwestern Chicken-Tortilla Soup

Butternut Squash Ginger Bisque

Cream of Tomato with Ham & Cheese

New Orleans Fish Soup

Sassy Clam Chowder

Old Fashion Ham Soup

Quick Corn Soup

Hearty Sausage Soup

Roasted Tomato Basil Soup

QUICK Crawfish Bisque

Peanut Butter Soup

Mainely Fish Chowdah


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, ...