The Best Soups For Sipping

Sitting in porch, sipping from a bowl of steaming soup while experiencing chilly evening breeze, now that’s what you call a perfect evening!

Soup is not only warming but is a nutritional meal in itself. But did you know there are a variety of soups made throughout the world? The preparation method, ingredients and aroma changes from region to region. The soups can be broadly categorized into the following types:

• Hot soups: These are the most popular of all types of soups. Prepared by boiling several solid ingredients like grains, vegetables, noodles, macaroni, chicken, beef etc in water until their consistency becomes thick. These are not only mouth watering but are of great nutritional value as well. You can find a wide variation in soup and its preparation method throughout the world.
• Cold soups: These are of two types, sweet cold soups and savory cold soups.  The temperature of these soups is kept either at room temperature or below it. Cold soups can be served as appetizer, light meal or dessert. However, once prepared, these soups have to be consumed within few hours.
• Dessert soups: These are a light and perfect way to end a meal on a sweet note. Various fruits like strawberries, bananas, citrus, raspberries, honeydew, watermelon etc can be used to prepare the dessert soups. You can also use chocolate, caramel and cream in its preparation. While dessert soup made with melting chocolate can be served hot, the ones made with fruits are served chilled.
• Canned soups: These soups are a convenient option for those having no time to prepare soups. They are prepared and frozen with no added preservatives. You can store it for a very long period of time and consume by just heating it up.
• Dried soups: These soups are offered in small packages and are less expensive. These are also instant meal but unlike in canned soups, hot water is to be added for the preparation. Several toppings and garnishing can also be added.

Classic Foods brings you a wide array of frozen soups. Serving Texas and its neighboring areas since 1992, Classic Foods are highly renowned for their supreme services. Besides soups, they offer various chili products, taco fillings, barbeque, hot dogs, chips and kettle cooked food.

For further details about the food products and food services by the Classic Foods, contact them at 629 Mony, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102 or call them at 817.332.1071.

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Know More About Bisque Soups

Soups are a very warming and comforting food comprising of wholesome ingredients and mouth-watering flavors. The common ingredients in a soup are generally meat, vegetables and water. Soups are best made with fresh ingredients. They can be hot, cold, sweet, thick or thin and are indisputably a great addition to any meal. They can be used as a main meal, a side dish or even as appetizers. There are mainly two types of soups namely:

• Clear soups: These further comprise of bouillon and consommé.
• Thick soups: These include purees, bisques and veloutes.

Heath benefits of soups:

• They are a great remedy for colds and fever. They instantly sooth a drained out body.
• They help a person stay in shape by keeping a check on weight gain. 
• Soups help build the immune system and keep infections at bay.
• Cancer, constipation, hypertension, heart ailments and stroke are best combated with soups.
• A bowl of soup a day keeps aging at bay. Soups clear out wrinkles and skin problems like acne by flushing out toxins from the body.
• The elderly can largely benefit from bone soups, as they are great for keeping bones healthy and preventing osteoporosis.
• The Chinese believe that soup adds “warming energy” to the food in winters, which protect the body against cold weather.

Popularity of bisque soups

Discovered in France, Bisque soups are rich, creamy and thick soups made from shellfish and enriched with cream. Crayfish and lobster bisque soups are the favorite amongst many people. Traditionally, bisques comprised of wine, cream and spices to add flavor to the seafood. Today, they are all over the globe and are not just restricted to seafood. They can even be made from vegetables like mush rooms and tomatoes. They are a popular dish at high-end events and come in many interesting flavors and appealing colors.

Preparation

• Marinate the shellfish in cognac or wine.
• Then cook and puree it with your hand into a fine paste. You can even use a food processor to puree it but traditionally, it was pureed by hand.
• Finely grind the shells and add it to the soup mixture for antique bisque.
• After this, add cream to the mixture to give it the Bisque texture.
• You can even add cooked rice to thicken it.
• Serve in a low two-handled cup or a mug and saucer.

Classic Foods offers an array of delicious soups like Vegetable Beef Soups, Creamy Corn Chowder, Broccoli and Cheese Soups, Hearty Chicken Noodle Soups, Tomato basil Soups, Chicken Tortilla soups and many more. All products are offered in frozen and easy-to-prepare pouches.

For more information about the products and services offered by Classic Foods, visit them at 629 Mony, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102. You can also call them at 817.332.1071.

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Kettle Cooked Chips Healthier Than Regular Chips

A majority of us hesitate while reaching for that extra potato chip. The reason is the high calorie content of not only the potatoes but also the oil used in preparing it. But the kettle cooked potato chips have changed the whole scenario and made munching potato chips a healthy habit. Stunned? Kettle cooked chips are prepared slowly at low temperature and in individual batches, rather than frying in a continuous flow. This makes them not only crispier but also low in calorie content.

Unlike the traditional method, both flavor and color of the chips are maintained in the kettle cooking, without disturbing its nutritional value. In kettle cooking, the natural flavor of potatoes is maintained as there is a minimum usage of artificial or excess ingredients in the preparation process.

While the regular chips are prepared from deep frying the potatoes, the kettle cooked potato chips is cooked slowly in two stages. It is first cooked at very low temperature for enhancing its color and texture, and then is cooled down before undergoing the second method. Before frying the chips again in the second stage, the oil from the potatoes is completely removed. This makes them comparatively much lower in calorie content than the regular chips.

Classic Foods is one of the famous producers of kettle chips and food products in the state. They use a range of steam jacketed and injected kettle cookers to make a number of kettle cooked food products. The kettles include vertical, steam jacketed kettles, MTC steam injected kettle and horizontal, steam jacketed kettles.

To name a few, kettle cooked food items offered by Classic Foods are chili, Soups, Sauces (Italian, Mexican, Asian) Queso, Gravies, Taco Fillings, Beans, Fajitas, Jalapenos, Hot dogs, Chips, Barbecue products are cooked. The Sheriff Blaylock’s BBQ Sauce prepared from tomato paste base, vinegar, molasses and chili pepper, further adds a unique taste to all food products.

For more information about the products and services offered by Classic Foods, feel free to visit them at 629 Mony, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102. You can also call them at 817.332.1071.

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Macaroni With Lots Of Cheese!

Macaroni and cheese, also known as ‘Mac and Cheese’ is a fast, easy to prepare and filling meal. Almost everyone loves to have this food because of its rich and bold taste. The key ingredient – cheese, wows the taste buds and makes this meal one of the most ordered dishes in any restaurant or concession stand in the state.

Macaroni and cheese is prepared with macaroni cooked al dente (to be firm but not hard) and cheese sauce (cheddar cheese). There are basically two methods to prepare this dish, the traditional and the French style. In the French style of cooking Mac and cheese, the sauce is prepared by adding cheese to scalded milk and white flour, and then heated. In the traditional method, whisked flour-butter is added to scalded milk. The thickness of cheese sauce depends on the proportions of milk and flour.

Once the final cheese sauce is prepared, it is mixed well with the cooked macaroni and served immediately. It can also be placed into a casserole dish and baked until it turns golden brown. It may be topped with breadcrumbs or crushed crackers.

Classic Foods offers you an array of rich, creamy and tangy cheese sauces which are perfect for preparing macaroni and pastas. These sauces include the following:

• Yellow Cheese Sauce: This is a rich sauce with hints of sharp cheddar cheese. You can use this sauce to prepare macaroni for a perfect side dish.
• White Cheese Sauce: It is a rich creamy white sauce flavored with cheddar note.
• Cheddar Cheese Sauce: This cheese come in ready-to-use form and is prepared with blend of cheddar cheese and natural cheese flavors.
• Cheddar Cheese Sauce-Dispensing Bag: This sauce is made from cheddar and natural cheese and is offered in conventional dispensing pouch for cheese dispensing machines.

Apart from these, Classic Foods also offers a range of soups, hot dogs, chili products, Jalapenos, Taco fillings etc. For more information about the products and services offered by Classic Foods, feel free to visit them at 629 Mony, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102. You can also call them at 817.332.1071.

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