Chicken and Wild Rice Soup is creamy delicious, richly satisfying and rumored to be a copycat of the wildly popular Panera version. (I personally haven’t gone that far down the Panera menu – just found my favorite and stopped there!) It is guest worthy – lunch or dinner, with a small salad and a light dessert. Serve it to the family one evening and take the leftover soup to work the next day for a yummy lunch. I prefer the original wild rice blend because I like the texture of the rice better. I used the basic chicken flavor and Uncle Ben’s brand, but choose the flavor variety of wild rice blend that matches your family’s taste. It takes about 20 minutes total to cook. You can use the quick cook version of the wild rice blend by turning off the burner under the soup pot, ... [Read More]
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Creamy Turkey Tortellini Soup
A yummy way to use leftover holiday turkey is to make Creamy Turkey Tortellini Soup! Or use chicken for Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup! A hearty, filling soup that is a meal by itself because it has meat, pasta and veggies in one flavorful, nutritious pot! Creamy, warm comfort food on a chilly day! When I ran across the original recipe, it was instant “oh that sounds good.” Well, it wasn’t. Have you ever had one of those epic fails? But it was intriguing enough that we ate the whole huge batch, trying to analyze what made it such a failure and what could be done to make it better. Even more intriguing because Wheels and Bytes are usually from the “inhale and move on” school. You get the improved and downsized version and I hope you like it as much as we do! Because we ... [Read More]
