Soups
"You get a soup or a salad with the entree."
Bring me the soup, I say, knowing full well that a guy my age and size really ought to get the salad.
But I love soup. Exquisitely in cold weather, but avidly in warm weather too.
The Louisiana cuisines include most distinctive collection of soups anywhere in the nation. The vast spectrum of gumbos alone makes our soup selection unique. Add turtle soup, artichoke and oyster soup, crawfish bisque, and crab-and-corn soup--indigenous dishes all--and the soup bowl is the site of plenty of action.
I have so many soups in my collection of recipes that I think I'd better divide them into categories:
