Looking for a Portuguese Bean Soup
 

Hey all,

I'm looking for a great Portuguese Bean Soup. I googled it and came up with
70k hits. I think that's a bit much to wade through so I thought I'd take a
different path and just ask here...

So, with that being said, does anybody have a recipe for Portuguese Bean
Soup they really like?

TIA,
Bret



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Maverick wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for a great Portuguese Bean Soup. I googled it and came
up with
> 70k hits. I think that's a bit much to wade through so I thought I'd
take a
> different path and just ask here...
>
> So, with that being said, does anybody have a recipe for Portuguese
Bean
> Soup they really like?
>
No, but for future reference if you add "recipe" and then put quotation
marks around the food name you'll narrow down the hits to the more
relevant ones. You only get those with the full name instead of every
p. and every bean and every soup. Thus, <recipe "portuguese bean
soup"> got 1,290 hits. hth

-aem

"aem" > wrote in message
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>
> Maverick wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a great Portuguese Bean Soup. I googled it and came
> up with
>> 70k hits. I think that's a bit much to wade through so I thought I'd
> take a
>> different path and just ask here...
>>
>> So, with that being said, does anybody have a recipe for Portuguese
> Bean
>> Soup they really like?
>>
> No, but for future reference if you add "recipe" and then put quotation
> marks around the food name you'll narrow down the hits to the more
> relevant ones. You only get those with the full name instead of every
> p. and every bean and every soup. Thus, <recipe "portuguese bean
> soup"> got 1,290 hits. hth

aem, yeah, I forgot to add recipe in the search and on my post. My mistake.

However, I do thank you for the tip on googling. After years of getting
****ed off at the results (and not reading the online help), I never put
much faith in the search engines. Now I know it's my own damn fault.

Who says you can't teach and old (40) dog a new trick?

Thanks again,
Bret
(getting senile. starting to write notes)



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Hello

Joyce Goldstein's Book "Savoring Spain and Portugal" has a nice bean
soup called "Sopa de Pedra (Stone Soup). The beans are the "stones". I
have included a précis of the recipe below.

Ingredients include, presoaked dried red kidney beans (1 cup), olive oil
(3 Tbl.), chopped yellow onions (2), chopped garlic cloves (2), 1/2 lb.
piece of bacon, 1/4 lb. chorizo, diced boiling potatoes (4), diced
peeled carrots (4), small head Savoy cabbage (shredded), peeled and
dices turnips (2), diced plum tomatoes (2 cups), bay leaf (1), chicken
stock (8 cups), fresh chopped cilantro (1/2 cup).

Basically the recipe puts the beans up to boil, then sautés the onions
and garlic in olive oil. After 10 minutes add the chorizo and the
bacon, then the rest of the vegetables (except the cilantro). Add the
stock. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat low and simmer for 30
minutes. Discard the bay leaf, remove the meats, and cut them up.
Return the meats to the pan, then add the beans and the cilantro, and
simmer for 5 minutes or so. Serve..

This recipe may or may not be what you wanted. In fact it could be
Spanish as well as Portuguese. At any rate it would seem to be a good
soup for a cold rainy night - or any night.

Regards

Jerry @ The Artisan
http://www.theartisan.net




"Maverick" > wrote in message
...
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for a great Portuguese Bean Soup. I googled it and came
> up with 70k hits. I think that's a bit much to wade through so I
> thought I'd take a different path and just ask here...
>
> So, with that being said, does anybody have a recipe for Portuguese
> Bean Soup they really like?
>
> TIA,
> Bret
>
>
>
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