Easy Vegetable Chili Recipe with Homemade Bread Bowls

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. # YesYouCan  #CollectiveBias  February seemed to be one of the craziest months I have had in a while.  Every time I turned around there were more obligations than time, and the next thing I knew i…

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Creamy Leek and Potato Soup Recipe

WOW!  The temperatures are really starting to drop around here, and that means soup is on the menu more often.   I honestly forget how the topic came up, but a friend of mine was asking me about leek recipes for her brother, and I told her that Creamy Leek and Potato Soup was one of my favorites.�…

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Cauliflower Soup

I have a problem. Sometimes I buy things at the store with the best intentions to use them for this, that, and the other. However life happens, and before I know it, I HAVE to use said item or I am going to lose it! Does anyone else have this problem? This is what happened to me tonight.  I had …

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Italian Lentil Soup

I AM SO COLD! I don't know how else to put it!  We have had a lot of snow recently.  Not NEARLY as much as some places, but a lot for us.  And this cold.  It is so brutal.  When the weather is like this I will be honest with you, all I want is soup to eat.  However, soup is not always a hearty…

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Poor Man's Vegetable Beef Soup

What a wild and crazy weekend! I don't even remember what I did Friday, but I DO know that Saturday was emotional to say the least.  If you follow me in Facebook , you know that my husband and I got our first smoker recently.  To christen our smoker we decided to smoke a Boston butt or pork shou…

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

It has been such and great morning!   As I awoke, I peeked under my blind to find that my entire town had been blanketed in a winter wonderland!  Yes, it is our first big snow of the year!  I had originally planned to post something else today, but I can't think of ANYTHING I would rather eat on…

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Easy Beef Pho Recipe

I wouldn't say that I live in a small town by any means.  Actually Parkersburg is the third largest city in West Virginia, but being that as it may, we are limited in our ethnic cuisine.  Sure we have the Mexican restaurants and Chinese places, but aside from that it is pretty meat and potatoes…

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Creamy Potato Soup

September has come and ready or not, Autumn is well on its way! This weekend our temperatures have not gone above 70 degrees, the air has been crisp, and there has even been the occasional rain storm.  It is on days like this that I love to curl up in my big comfy chair with my puppies and a pipi…

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Thai Sausage and Kale Noodle Bowl

One of my favorite things to do is get together and cook with my girlfriends!  There is just something about women getting together, in the kitchen, eating, laughing, and having a good time that  nothing else can match.  I am also very lucky to have some great foodie friends as well.  Take my frie…

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