Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes

Comfort food on a cold winter's night, cabbage simmered in chicken broth is also an age-old folk remedy for curing the common cold.

Enjoy your favorite restaurant's broccoli Cheddar soup any time with this delicious recipe!

A simple, homemade soup made with fresh tomatoes is a perfect summertime treat when the best tomatoes are ripe in gardens and farmers' markets. Everyone will love the fresh sweet taste and smooth texture.

This is an easy chili recipe that you can throw in the slow cooker and forget about all day. Great topped with Cheddar cheese, crushed corn chips, and a dollop of sour cream.

Onions, celery, and broccoli cooked in chicken broth are pureed with milk in this quick scratch-made cream of broccoli soup.

This recipe uses a lot of ingredients common in Thai cooking to make a delicious and spicy soup featuring shrimp and shiitake mushrooms in a coconut milk flavored broth.

This is a rich soup in which ground beef is sauteed in butter with vegetables and herbs prior to adding milk, cubes of cheddar cheese and sour cream.

Cooked tomatoes and tomato juice are pureed with fresh basil leaves in this soup thickened with heavy cream.

Red wine and onion soup mix flavor this beef stew made with potatoes, carrots, and onions.

A chuck roast is cooked with barley and bay leaf in a slow cooker before it is cubed and added to a soup pot of simmering vegetables in a beef broth.

A slice of French bread layered with three varieties of cheese is broiled on top of this decadent but simple french onion soup.

This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram.

Half of the black beans in this spicy soup are pureed with tomatoes, the other half are simmered with carrots, onion and kernels of corn.

If you want a good, basic chili recipe, this is it. No odd vegetables, or secret ingredients, just ground beef, tomatoes, red kidney beans, and the usual spices. Simple and delicious.

Canned white beans and cooked chicken meat are mixed in chicken stock with tomatillos, green chilies, chopped tomatoes, and fresh corn kernels in this lightly seasoned chili.

Here's a cozy dish to comfort on a dark and stormy night. A creamy, fragrant stew of chicken, celery, onions, carrots, peas and potatoes plays host to biscuit dough, dropped by the spoonful into the boiling hot liquid. Simmer until the dumplings are done.

Browned ground turkey and cannellini beans are combined with green chilies, onion and garlic in this chicken stock based soup seasoned with cumin, oregano and cinnamon. Serve with grated jack cheese.

Use the everyday mushrooms we find in our grocery store or use them in combination with some of the more exotic varieties. Experiment and have fun - All will be good.

I make this soup every Halloween and is the 'signal' to the family that the cool weather has arrived. I've been making it for 15 years now and out of all the soups I make, it is still everyone's favorite. Enjoy!

Boneless skinless chicken thighs are cooked in water and a can of cream of celery soup in this stew with refrigerated biscuits for dumplings.