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kid-friendly chicken tortilla soup

Kid-Friendly Chicken Tortilla Soup

After much searching and recipe trials, this Kid-Friendly Chicken Tortilla Soup will become a staple in your home just like it has become one in mine. We love eating chicken tortilla soup when we go out and wanted to be able to cook it at home. However, many recipes out there make it spicy so […]

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Hamburger Cauliflower Japanese Curry

When you don’t know what to cook for dinner, try this Hamburger Cauliflower Japanese Curry. Quick weeknight dinners growing up in Hawaii included Hamburger Curry with frozen mixed vegetables. When the only vegetables I had were onions and cauliflower, this recipe was born and is now on the regular dinner rotation. My family is in

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stove top chicken noodle soup using frozen chicken

Stove Top Chicken Noodle Soup (using frozen chicken)

This Stove Top Chicken Noodle Soup saves the day without having to defrost the frozen chicken thighs in advance. Most of us parents have been there, you have a sick kid and you want to give them some warm soup to feel better. You don’t have any canned soup on hand, but you have the

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slow cooker lamb stroganoff without alcohol on a plate

Slow Cooker Lamb Stroganoff (without alcohol)

This Slow Cooker Lamb Stroganoff (without alcohol) takes the stress out of getting your family to eat the leftover meat you cooked/roasted a day or two before. It creates tender nuggets of meat in a succulent creamy sauce, which is the only way my son will eat mushrooms besides on a pizza.   I showed

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pot of vegetable soup with onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes and pasta

Easy Veggie and Pasta Soup

As an Amazon Associate I may earn a small amount from qualifying purchases if you follow a link from my site to Amazon. Easy Veggie and Pasta Soup is just that, a quick vegetable soup with some pasta that my son loves more than the soup he gets outside of home. He will gobble this

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bowl of portuguese bean soup

Budget Portuguese Bean Soup

Portuguese Bean Soup is quintessential to growing up in Hawaii. This is probably the second most common soup that a kid from Hawaii eats behind chicken noodle soup. You’ll find it at many local Hawaii casual dining restaurants. Everyone makes it a little differently. Depending on what brand of Portuguese sausage you use and how

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slow cooker pinto beans and sausage in a bowl

Slow Cooker Pinto Beans and Sausage

I love the slow cooker for many reasons, but especially because I can cook dried pinto beans into this delicious Slow Cooker Pinto Beans and Sausage recipe. Dried beans is not something that I saw a lot growing up; we mostly used canned beans, if at all. But the flavors of this dish reminds me

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beef chuck roast cooked in a crock pot

Slow Cooker Pot Roast (no beef stock or base)

Pot roast in the slow cooker is my go-to set and forget meal to cook. I can sear the meat without using any flour while I chop my veggies and don’t have to do it in batches like with stew meat! You still get that wonderful slow-cooked tender beef without extra work.   This pot

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