No Soak Instant Pot Chili is a family-friendly, soon to be favorite in your home! This recipe makes use of small red beans in your dry food storage, without the need to soak the beans for hours. I love the Instant Pot for cooking dried beans. Using the Instant Pot eliminates the necessity of soaking beans… Read More
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Instant Pot Beef Stew
There’s nothing like a big pot of stew for dinner on a cold day. Instant Pot Beef Stew is a meal everyone can make. If you can chop, you can make this recipe! Whenever I read a recipe for “easy” beef stew, I wonder, is there any other type of stew? Stew has been around… Read More
No Soak Instant Pot Black Beans
No Soak Instant Pot Black Beans will change the way you look at cooking beans. No more thinking ahead so you can soak the beans overnight. Just place the beans in the pot and let the magic happen! king of beans without a recipe Our friend Eric is the King of Black Beans. He’s famous… Read More
Southwest Soup
Southwest Soup is a recipe every busy person should have Pinned on their dinner board. It’s a quick and easy meal that everyone in the family will love. Southwest Soup takes just a few minutes to put together and can be made in the crockpot as well as on the stove top! We are huge… Read More
Chili with Brats
I have a few recipes that are on our regular rotation when I need to make dinner in a hurry. Chili with Brats is on the list. It’s quick and easy and everyone loves it. You can make it with or without the Brats, and it makes a mean pot of leftovers too! My first… Read More
ABK’s Sharing Soup
Christmas is the most magical time of the year! There are so many reasons to love this season. I love the lights we see everywhere at Christmas time. The lights reminds us of Jesus Christ, who is the light and life of the world. I’d love to give you a few ideas to Light the… Read More
One Pot Butternut Squash Soup
One Pot Butternut Squash Soup can be made in less than thirty minutes and tastes like soup you order in a high end restaurant. The butternut squash is cooked in the pot, along with apples and onions to make this simple soup rich and flavorful and perfect for your holiday table. Do you serve soup… Read More
Turkey and Fresh Veggie Chili
Sugarbuttereggshamturkeypiecookiescookiescookiescandygravymashedpotatoesrollschocolatenutspumpkin is where I was living for the past two months. It’s time to make an effort to eat something on the healthy side! This Turkey and Fresh Veggie Chili is our new favorite dinner. It takes minutes to throw together and is loaded with good for you ingredients. We started off the new year… Read More
Loaded Baked Potato Soup in Bread Bowls
This Loaded Baked Potato Soup in Bread Bowls is the perfect meal for your trick or treat night! It’s always easier to get your kids to eat on Halloween night if you have a tradition of making something fun to eat. I love this Loaded Baked Potato Soup because it’s a quick, easy, filling and… Read More
Chiles Rellenos Chowder with Fried Tortillas Con Huevos
Just after Christmas, we headed to one of our favorite places on earth, Mexico. Or as my friend Mel calls it “my Mexico”. It was 7 days of post-holiday bliss. Our days went like this: sleep in huevos for breakfast with guac pool beach quesadillas for lunch with guac nap beach pool walk on beach… Read More
White Chicken Chili & Dead Man’s Dinner for Halloween!
White Chicken Chili & Dead Man’s Dinner for Halloween is really simple to recreate at home. A long standing tradition for Halloween has been soup for dinner. I found if I prepared something my kids like for dinner, they would actually eat something healthy before they went out and loaded up on candy! This is a… Read More
Panera Copycat Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Have you been to Panera Bread? It’s a chain, and even though I’m not a fan of chain restaurants, I love a sandwich and soup from Panera. Maybe it’s because we don’t have Panera in Utah? You always want what you can’t have. I’m not a fan of super thick and cheesy soup. That’s why… Read More
Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
Sometimes, I get funny little texts or emails or phone calls from friends about cooking. My friend Jo sent me this text a few days before Christmas: Dear Si, I need new soup recipes. Please. Help soon. A month and a half later, I’m coming to her rescue. Good thing she didn’t fall into quicksand. Dear… Read More
Slow Cooker Tomato Basil Soup
Every year on Halloween, it was a trick to get the kids to eat real food before going out in the neighborhood to collect treats. My rules on Halloween (besides stay in the neighborhood, don’t run, say “thank you” after screaming trick or treat, and don’t eat the candy till we inspect it). Those were… Read More
Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon
Martha knows how to do soup and this recipe for Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon is no exception. Bacon you say? Best condiment ever for Butternut Squash Soup! Fall = temperatures dropping, leaves turning, FOOTBALL. Oh, that game last weekend.GO UTES!!And then there’s soup. There’s something therapeutic about simmering soup on a cool day. Does… Read More
Boy Scout Stew
Some days are made for stew. Yesterday was one of those Boy Scout Stew days. It was the first snow here. Yikes. October 23. While I’m not a huge fan of eating stew, I do like to make it. Something about chopping, mixing and having the aroma slowly fill your house on a cold day…. Read More
Healthy Chicken Tortilla Soup
Kari Cutler made this delicious Healthy Chicken Tortilla Soup at a South Fork class in February. The prep work is done the day or night before. Perfect recipe for Soccer (or baseball) Moms. Have a great weekend! Kari’s Healthy Tortilla Soup Kari Cutler print recipe The day or night before serving: 2 cups dried beans (black beans,… Read More
Vegetarian Minestrone Soup
Soup. I love it because it usually takes 30 minutes or less, prep-to-table and I can throw together some buttermilk biscuits or simple cornbread muffins while the soup is cooking. Vegetarian Minestrone Soup is a combo of some of my favorite Minestrone recipes. Dinner doesn’t get much easier than this. Remember that “New Beginnings: College… Read More
Spicy Butternut Squash and Coconut Soup
My Secret Recipe Club assignment this month comes from Indian-Leigh at A Vegan Obsession. Now I’m sure I am about as far as anyone can possibly get from being a Vegan. How in the world would I find a recipe to cook on this site?? I looked and looked. In the end, I went with… Read More
Laurie’s Creamy White Chili
The weather is finally taking a turn for below 80 degrees here. It seemed like we waited for summer FOREVER. In the end of August summer disappeared, then BAM! September rolled around, and it seemed like it was July again. Crazy. Anyway, this week, the leaves are turning, the air is crisp and it feels… Read More
Cook’s Illustrated Gazpacho
I still remember the first time I had Gazpacho. I was a senior in high school ( um, yes THIRTY years ago). I was with my friend Victoria, who was a waitress at Ericksen’s restaurant. Unless I am imagining this, I believe the whole name of the restaurant was” Ericksen’s on the… Read More
Dad’s Favorite Navy Bean Soup
Do you ever feel totally guilty about throwing out the bone that is in the middle of your Honeybaked Ham after the holidays? I do. Not surprising, since Guilt is my middle name. My mom always made my Dad’s Favorite Navy Bean Soup after Christmas and/or Easter with the leftover ham and of course, the bone…. Read More
Classic French Onion Soup
French onion soup. How many people say it’s their all time favorite soup? Creating an outstanding French onion soup experience (in my opinion) includes: home made broth; deep, dark caramelized yellow onions; good quality baguette (preferably stale); and the best Gruyere cheese you can buy. Now, I know you are going to look at this… Read More
Butternut Squash Soup
One day my neighbor, who is an expert gardener, came over and saw that I had three Butternut Squash centered on my table with ribbons tied around the stems. He laughed when I told him I had never cooked Butternut Squash, only used them as table decorations. I have since reformed and cooked this funny… Read More