Many years ago, a colleague shared a recipe for an easy cheese broccoli soup that used Cheez Whiz. Over the years, I made enough changes to that soup that I realized it is no longer the same recipe. While it no longer is a simple as dumping a few ingredients into a slow cooker and […]

Originally, I made this soup by just winging the recipe. Granted, it was probably not the smartest idea to throw a new soup together when I was cooking for a community soup lunch. The good news is that it was edible and received compliments. Personally, I enjoyed it so much that I have added it […]

Chicken stew is essentially a cross between chicken soup and chicken gravy.   It is a thick, hearty dish that is usually served over or in some type of bread. I really like to serve it in puff pastry shells because I think the shells make a simple, comfort food look like a dish worthy to serve […]

My mom would frequently make creamed turkey after the holidays as a way of using up leftover turkey, but I remember it most from the massive amounts she made for our Girl Scout troop’s fundraising dinners. She was one of the leaders when we spent two years raising money for a trip to England.  As […]

I originally developed a quick, short-cut dairy-free cream of mushroom soup just so my husband could eat one of his favorite side dishes, green bean casserole.  It is almost the same as my dairy-free condensed soup alternative, just with a few changes. My daughter also really likes green bean casserole, so I had her taste test […]

My paternal grandmother used to make oxtail soup.  When I was 6 or 7 years old I remember thinking that her “oxtail soup”  must be just another name for beef  vegetable soup because no one had oxen anymore.  Afterall, I had seen old pictures of my maternal grandfather with his oxen pulling trees that had been […]