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Southwestern Chicken Soup
My coworker had a taco salad the other day that had my mouth watering for some Mexican fare. That night I made a B-line toward Wal-mart on the way home. I bought some Sam’s Choice Black Bean and White Corn Salsa and worked up a nice lil taco dinner for the family. But since I didn’t finish the jar of salsa, I was itching for something more to do with it. Then the freak cold snap had me in soup-making mode so I dreamed up this interpretation of Chicken Tortilla Soup. There are no tortillas so I’m calling it Southwestern. It came out pretty tasty, a lil spicy, a lil…
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Creamy Crab and Tomato Bisque
On Sunday it rained in Atlanta. Then that turned into snow. The snow came down for hours. I’d call this my first official snow. I’ve been living here for about 5 years now and have seen it ice, light snows, hail, but never this much white. I mean we actually had inches of it. I built a snow man with it, had to push it off my car, drive in it. And I actually had to make use of my Nissan’s defrost feature just to see through the windshield. But that’s not the point. The cold, the snow and an uncommon ingredient in my refrigerator all inspired me to try…
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Curry Comfort
Monday was one of those days when I just could not WAIT to eat my lunch. It’s been a practice of mine since I hit the Real World, to pack my leftover dinner for lunch. So me and the husband always know what we’re eating for lunch. If dinner wasn’t so stellar, we may forfeit what’s in our tupperware and venture into the nearest food court. However, when dinner is fantastic, we count the minutes until it’s an acceptable hour to eat lunch. For me, that’s about 11 a.m. On Monday, the countdown began much earlier than usual. In fact, I considered eating my lunch for breakfast. I made a…
