soup

Chicken Tortellini Soup

Sep 23, 2020

Chicken Tortellini Soup – classic chicken noodle soup made with cheese tortellini and topped with Parmesan cheese! The perfect comfort food for a chilly day or when you’re feeling under the weather.

It’s below 80 degrees in Texas which means it’s officially soup weather!

In this last week alone I’ve made matzo ball soup, Lemon Chicken and Rice Soup, and this Chicken Tortellini Soup. For some reason, making soup is just so much more fun than making anything else.

This is your classic chicken noodle soup but made with cheese tortellini instead of regular noodles. And then topped with Parmesan cheese because cheese is always a good idea.

It’s quick and easy and perfect for a cold day or a day you just need a big bowl of comfort.

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Lemon Chicken and Rice Soup

Sep 17, 2020

Lemon Chicken and Rice Soup – quick cooking chicken soup with rice, vegetables, and a light lemony broth. It’s my favorite winter soup and great for when you’re feeling a little under the weather!

This was my favorite soup last winter. I made it pretty much every week.

It has a light lemony chicken broth, shredded chicken, rice, veggies, and fresh dill. It’s different enough from the usual chicken soup to be interesting but also close enough to still feel comforting.

It’s great when you’re sick or just when it’s cold outside or really any time you just need a big bowl of comfort.

I also have a Chicken and Wild Rice Soup recipe that I make constantly during the winter!

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Instant Pot Corn Chowder

Aug 25, 2020

Instant Pot Corn Chowder – creamy chowder with fresh corn, potatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese. It cooks in the pressure cooker in just 25 minutes!

Don’t you just love this time of year when the corn is so good?!

I love putting corn is everything during summer. I even have a caramel corn ice cream that includes fresh corn!

This Instant Pot Corn Chowder is a family favorite. I have to double it if I want to have even a drop of leftovers! It has a super creamy base and it’s full of fresh corn, potatoes, cheese, and bacon. How can you go wrong with those ingredients?!

If you’re not into soup during the summer (I get it, it’s a million degrees in Texas right now), cut the corn off the cob and put it in a freezer ziploc bag so you can make this soup when it gets cooler!

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Spicy Coconut Wonton Soup

Aug 16, 2018

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Spicy Coconut Wonton Soup – delicious 15 minute soup! Spicy coconut broth with wontons, mushrooms, and snow peas!

Important life update: I’m into brothy soups now.

I, for my entire life, have been a thick soup person.

You know, a squash soup. Or a chicken and rice soup. Or even a broccoli cheddar.

I didn’t like anything brothy.

And then I became obsessed with pho a few years ago and it was my gateway to other spicy brothy soups and now I literally drink bone broth with a ton of sriracha from a coffee mug every morning of my life.

Why am I obsessed with broth?

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Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup

Feb 09, 2018

Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup – creamy potato and cauliflower soup with bacon, cheddar cheese, and green onions. A lightened up version of baked potato soup!

Hi guys, I don’t usually post on the weekends but I’ve been holding onto the photos for this Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup for weeks now and wanted to get it post while the weather is terrible and we’re all freezing.

I had plans today, got all the kids in the car, and then immediately drove home after putting gas in the car because I literally couldn’t.

Too cold for me.

Everyone keeps saying, “Amanda, it’s February, of course it’s cold” but y’all, last February I was wearing sleeveless dresses in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and not complaining about it being too cold to have a Jeep.

Summer needs to hurry.

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Paleo Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup

Jan 04, 2018

Easy, healthy, and delicious Paleo Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup is the perfect way to warm up on a winter day.

Originally shared on Food Fanatic in November 2017. You can find this Paleo Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup and many others over there!

I have fallen into the routine of making butternut squash soup every single night after the kids are in bed. And then the next day I have soup for breakfast and lunch and then I’m sad when dinner rolls around and there is no more soup left.

Is it possible to be addicted to butternut squash soup?

I literally panicked when I walked into the grocery store the other day to find that they were out of all squash but spaghetti squash. I can’t make a creamy soup with spaghetti squash.

I do several different versions of butternut squash soup (like this coconut curry one or this one with crab!) and most nights I’m just kind of throwing whatever I find in the fridge in. You can’t really go wrong when it comes to a soup like this.

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Turkey, Potato, and Corn Chowder

Dec 18, 2017

Heeeey guys, happy first day of winter break!

My kids are already driving me crazy. Shocker, right?

It’s crazy cold right now and nobody wants to go outside and run off their energy. So far we’ve gone a movie, taken the dogs to see Santa, decorated cookies, watched Home Alone 4 times, and eaten 3 batches of my mom’s Christmas mix.

Please send ideas.

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Paleo Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Oct 30, 2017

Paleo Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup is full of spicy, cozy flavor. Plus, it’s easy enough for a quick weeknight dinner!

One of my favorite favorite FAVORITE parts about fall is squash. I love squash. A few weeks ago I drove several towns over to a grocery store that I knew would have different varieties of squash than the stores in my town.

And I spent, like, 30 bucks on squash.

Just squash. Six different varieties of squash though.

But still, my favorite will always be butternut squash. Even though it’s pretty widely available all year long, I still go butternut squash crazy every fall.

I put it in eggs in the morning, I bake it into muffins, I top salads with it, and, of course, I make soup with it.

My all-time favorite is my Autumn Squash Soup (which can also be made paleo if you just substitute full fat coconut milk for the heavy cream and maybe just use fresh apple instead of apple juice) and I make that one at least once a week.

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Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Oct 18, 2017

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Broccoli Cheddar Soup – easy kid-friendly soup! A creamy soup with broccoli, carrots, and cheddar cheese!

Okay guys, dinner time.

Does the whole family sit down at the table?

Does everyone do their own thing?

I’ll admit, I’m terrible at dinner time these days. I’m a stickler for the kids at the table all together, but more often than not, I’m in the kitchen working on the dishes or doing a 2nd batch of biscuits or whatever needs to be done. I’m close enough to hear their conversation but not actually participating, you know?

Then they want to watch videos on their tablets so no one’s actually talking to anyone anyway.

And I’m feeling like it’s time to get rid of that mealtime boredom and bring some fun to the table.

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Black Bean Soup

Jan 09, 2017

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ALDI.

Black Bean Soup – perfect for meatless Monday and all ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry!

Hey guys!

How are the resolutions going?

Mine are going really well. You guys know that one of my goals is to significantly cut back on the animal products that my household consumes. It’s easier than anticipated – I don’t even think my kids have noticed!

This meatless, dairy-free Black Bean Soup has become a favorite among all of us!

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Ham and Lentil Soup

Nov 30, 2016

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Smithfield.

Ham and Lentil Soup is the perfect way to use leftover ham! Ham, lentils, and loaded with veggies. It’s quick, inexpensive, and delicious!

Tomorrow is December 1.

What?

How?

Are we sure it’s really the last day of November?

Like, sure sure?

Anyway, I’m putting my Christmas tree up today because if I don’t do it now, tomorrow I’ll start the “Well, it’s too late now! Christmas is practically here!” thing and we just won’t have a Christmas tree this year.

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Slow Cooker Butternut Squash and Turkey Chili

Oct 27, 2016

Butternut Squash and Turkey Chili – serious comfort food! Turkey chili filled with butternut squash, black beans, tomatoes, and lots of spices.

Is everyone obsessed with squash right now or is it just me?

I feel like every post I’ve put up this month has been squash.

I have 5 varieties in my pantry right now. And as soon as I cook one, I run to the store to replace it. Just in case I have an emergency and need a sweet dumpling squash right now.

I can’t get enough.

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Slow Cooker Pork and Butternut Squash Stew

Oct 13, 2016

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Okay guys, real talk.

I broke the driver’s side window of my car.

“How’d you manage that one, Amanda?”

Well, it’s a Wrangler so the windows unzip and the zipper broke.

Okay, fine, I broke both zippers. Which is okay most of the time since I normally have at least the back windows off anyway. But y’all, it’s cold in the mornings and at night in central Texas now. I was shivering on my way back from Austin last week.

An hour and a half at 75 MPH with the window down at 10 pm?

It was cold.

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Autumn Squash Soup (Panera Copycat)

Oct 05, 2016

Autumn Squash Soup (Panera Copycat) – this is the best fall soup and so easy! Vegetarian and full of butternut squash and pumpkin!

Heeeey guys! I feel like I haven’t talked to you in forever.

I’ve been in a weird funk the past month and haven’t been cooking or blogging or anything.

And then that post I put up Monday was written months ago. Which is why I shared a cole slaw recipe in fall. It’s fine, cole slaw is delicious all year long! Especially with barbecue!

Speaking of, I had the best barbecue over the weekend at Black’s BBQ down in Austin.

I was down there on Friday morning for a work thing and then when it was time to come home and get the kids, I realized I wasn’t ready to be back in Fort Hood so I grabbed them and we drove back to Austin and had barbecue and ice cream and stayed out way past bedtime.

The brisket was seriously spectacular. And the mac & cheese? Uhhh-mazing.

And then the ice cream was from Spun Ice Cream which I’ve been dying to visit for months. They do the liquid nitrogen thing and I think it is the coolest thing ever. Plus, they use local dairy and only the best ingredients.

I had the horchata ice cream (I’m obsessed with horchata right now) with peanut brittle. So good. And they gave me a punch card which means I now have to stop every time I’m down in Austin.

Right?

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Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup

Nov 09, 2015

Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup – the classic stuffed pepper soup made low carb! Beef, bell peppers, and cauliflower rice in a tomato base. Quick, easy, and perfect healthy comfort food!

One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is stuffed pepper soup.

I don’t like peppers, I’m not a huge soup fan, but for whatever reason, I loved stuffed pepper soup.

It was one of the first recipes I learned to cook after I was married and I am almost embarrassed to admit that we ate it probably once a week for several years. It was definitely a favorite.

Recently I had a pretty nasty cold (kids went back to school = mom is sick within a month) and as soon as I started feeling yucky, I started craving that stuffed pepper soup. (With paleo cornbread!)

Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup is so incredibly similar to the version I cooked in the early years of my marriage. The only real difference is the processed canned soup is gone and replaced with tomato sauce and the white rice is replaced with cauliflower rice.

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