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Crockpot Tortellini

Crockpot Tortellini

  This delicious, decadent and easy crockpot tortellini starts on the stove then comes together in the crockpot. Becuase you can't replace the flavor from a pan, onions, carrots and garlic get cooked down first with breakfast sausage until caramelized. You can...

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Rotisserie Chicken with a Garlic Thyme Sauce

Rotisserie Chicken with a Garlic Thyme Sauce

  If you're like me you have a rotisserie chicken in your refrigerator that you have nothing planned for. I always pick up an extra one when I'm at Costco and inevitably it sits for a few days in the fridge and loses it's appeal. I question why I didn't just...

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Chicken Corn Chowder

Chicken Corn Chowder

  A hearty thick chowder packed with diced vegetables, shredded rotisserie chicken, melted cheese and topped with bacon crumbles. This chowder is my favorite Fall and Winter soup. It is extremely comforting and filling. If I make this early enough in the Fall I...

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Lasagna Soup

Lasagna Soup

    Lasgana Soup is an easy and delicious way to get all the flavor and comfort of lasagna in much less time and with much less effort. The soup reminds me of a super sloppy piece of lasaga with sauce ladled on top, which is my favorite kind. All your...

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Crunchwrap Supreme

Crunchwrap Supreme

  The Crunchwrap Supreme at Taco Bell is one of my favorite menu items. It has everything you could want all wrapped up in a perfectly toasted tortilla pouch. Unfortunately if everyone in my family wants one that will run me over $40. Follow my recipe and make...

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Frisco Melt

Frisco Melt

  The Frisco Melt has been my longtime favorite menu item at Steak 'n Shake, a popular fast-food chain that started in 1934 in the midwest. It's located all over the United States but has fallen on harder times as their "cook to order" motto creates long wait...

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Bacon Grilled Cheese

Bacon Grilled Cheese

this post may contain affiliate links   I think I just ate the best grilled cheese of my life. It wasn't at a restaurant. It was at home and it was by complete accident. My kids begged me to make my creamy tomato soup with grilled cheese for dinner. I had a wave...

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Italian Penicillin Soup with Chicken

Italian Penicillin Soup with Chicken

this post may contian affiliate links   Italian Penicillin Soup is a staple in Italian households. It got its name from being credited to clearing up cold and flu symptoms. It is essentially chicken noodle soup without the chicken. However, my recipe includes the...

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Easy Chicken Fried Rice

Easy Chicken Fried Rice

this post may contain affiliate links     Trader Joe's frozen vegetable fried rice is a cooking hack I found several years ago that replaced my homemade recipe upon the first bite. Each bag contains 16 ounces of the highest quality fried rice that has...

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