Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

  This recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of my favorites.  I look forward to making it and every year, I inevitably tweak the ingredients.  That's the one big relief coming off of our successful Bake it Happen Breast Cancer Baking campaign last month.  While baking is exact, like a science, working with the slow cooker is anything but.  You can manipulate ingredients and measured amounts each time you work with the same recipe to get your desired results. Let's face it. It’s been so mild out, who’s really thinking about … [Read more...]

Beef Stew

There's a little chill in the air.  It's the kind that makes you want to lay around on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  While I can't imagine having a lazy afternoon until my kids are in college, the next best thing would be to slow cook, or to make a big pot of nourishing soup-- the ultimate comfort food. Last week my daughter and I make some very tasty Butternut Squash Soup.  She was surprised to find that something so easy to make can taste so good.  So, we're on a soup roll. In fact, another soup was requested to appear somewhere on this week's … [Read more...]