Soups and Stews

This lima bean soup recipe calls for soaking the beans overnight, but the resulting creamy texture is well worth the time.

Actually, it's remarkable that I've managed to get this far into Project Recipe before encountering something I refused to ingest. Here's my story: What to do with the remains of Thanksgiving Dinner places people on either side of a culinary divide, and the turkey soup and chowder folk are unknown and inscrutable to me.

This is a great way to re-use thanksgiving leftovers. Really, I think you could toss whatever you wanted in here and it'd be delicious: a little mashed potato, some green beans (I did do that the third day to be honest). But save the pumpkin pie for after. Or breakfast.

Celery root (also called celeriac) is one of autumn's most delicious—but least appreciated—vegetables. Here it adds fresh celery flavor to this velvety first-course soup.