Round up your family and friends for some homemade Texas Cowboy Soup! This easy soup recipe is hearty and filled with ground beef, tomatoes, seasonings, and even some heat. You'll love serving this soup for a casual weeknight dinner or even at your next game day event. When serving this soup, don't forget to make the authors' recipe for Cornbread Croutons for some added flavor. You can also keep a bottle of hot sauce on the table so your family and friends can add the right amount of heat to a bowl of this soup. City slickers and farmhands alike will want to slurp up every drop of this soup!

Everyone loves mashed potatoes, but Smashed Potatoes are a star in their own right. This easy side dish is made from a combination of Yukon gold potatoes, whipping cream, and butter, but the best thing about these smashed potatoes is that they can be dressed up different ways to suit your family's tastes. This recipe uses a stand mixer, but you can easily use a hand mixer or potato masher instead. The key to this potato side dish is to leave in some lumps for the perfect "smashed" texture.

For this spin on a classic dish, creamy, beefy soup, loaded with mushrooms and gilded with a touch of Cognac, is ladled onto tender bites...

Youll love the fresh flavor from the orange zest and the rich stock that comes from the chicken in this Provencal-style soup.

Cold Thai-Style Mango Coconut Soup with Mango Relish is a wonderful Asian dish to serve as a starter at any dinner party. This is a very traditional type of dish from Thailand and one your guests will remember fondly if they enjoy authentic dishes. Mango and coconut always taste amazing together and their likability is heightened when you combine them with Thai red curry paste. You will need your food processor as well as your slow cooker to complete this recipe, but despite the extra equipment the process is fairly simple. Enjoy!

Here is a great soup that can serve as a main dish or side on a cold, wintry day when you seek some comfort food. This soup has healthy and appealing ingredients that will satisfy many of your winter food cravings. The cornbread dumplings are able to soak up some of their flavor from the chicken stock and vegetables in the soup. This soup is relatively easy to make. The dumplings take slightly more effort, but all in all, a dish that contains a nice combination that smells and tastes wonderful and helps keep you warm when you need it.

Peanut butter sounds like a strange ingredient to base a soup on, but believe us, it works. This mouth-watering soup tastes nothing like ...

Fragrant and hearty, this vegetarian soup is sure to satisfy. Coconut milk adds flavor and richness, while the curry powder gives it a un...

The sweetness of pears blends beautifully with the complex spices of India.

When turnips are roasted, they become so sweet and flavorful that we don’t want to eat them any other way. We love the cute and tender ba...

The flavor of freshly grated nutmeg in an unsweetened whipped cream makes a lovely complement to the sweet butternut squash soup.

Wild mushrooms are so easy to find in grocery stores nowadays that it is a crime not to use them. They add big flavor to soups, and we lo...

We love to cook with fontina cheese. It’s creamy, it melts beautifully, and it doesn’t overpower the other ingredients in a dish. Here, w...

Wasabi is a traditional accompaniment to sushi. We like to serve wasabi mayonnaise with grilled tuna or, better yet, tuna burgers.

Succotash is a favorite late-summer side dish. In this creamy soup, we’ve made it a meal by adding hearty kielbasa sausage.

Working with phyllo is really easy once you get the hang of it. The bonus of phyllo appetizers is that they freeze well and can be baked ...

Pancetta is a salt-cured pork product from Italy. It’s made out of the same cut of meat as bacon, but it isn’t smoked. If you have troubl...

Although Carla’s Grandma Re didn’t have a passion for baking, she could always be counted on to make these rich, nut-filled cookies at Ch...

Whipped cream will keep for hours in the refrigerator, so go ahead and whip it up before company arrives. It will be ready and waiting fo...