Being a great cook day in and day out means making the best of what you have on hand. A great cook is a versatile cook. Of course, it helps if you have a versatile recipe and a few hints along the way. Tomato and Beef Soup is a versatile recipe. Two 48 ounce box […]
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Cheesy Broccoli Beer Soup with sour cream and bacon
Even without the beer, this is a delicious broccoli cheese soup. However, we had a bottle of beer left from New Year’s Eve so in it went. Those who know me IRL are all atwitter. Yeah, well if you know me at all, you also know I hate to waste anything. Even more than I […]
Italian Meatball Soup
A healthy, full flavored, main dish soup, Italian Meatball Soup is so quick and easy that it is ready to eat in thirty minutes! Cannellini beans (aka white kidney beans) are fiber rich – about 7 grams of fiber per half cup. They also contain 7 grams of protein per half cup, which added to […]
Cheesy Potato Soup
Cheesy Potato Soup is truly a quick and easy meal. You can walk in the house, hungry and tired, without a clue as to what’s for supper. Thirty minutes later, bowls of hot steamy potato soup are on the table. The secret is to keep moving and focused on preparation. Butter melts while you are […]
Bacon Corn Chowder
Bacon Corn Chowder is a quick meal. It takes about half an hour to make it from start to finish. The word chowder comes from the French word “chaudiere”, meaning a three-legged cauldron used by fishermen to make seafood stews. When the fishermen returned from sea, each village had a large chaudiere waiting for a […]
Slowcooker Cheesy Brats and Potato Soup
Thick cheesy soup, chunky potatoes, flavorful brats topped with a handful of cheese – very good! Bytes made this cheesy good potato and brats soup for supper on a cold, rainy evening recently. (It’s almost May, folks! And we’re still eating hot soup to warm the soul!) If there are leftover brats in the refrigerator, […]
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