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07/04/2024

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01/02/2024

01/02/2024

01/02/2024

🍲🐔 Chicken Soup with White Beans and Kale 🥬🍲
Warm up with this comforting Chicken Soup with White Beans and Kale, a weeknight wonder that's easy to make and can even be prepared in a crockpot!

📋 Ingredients List:

🥄 1 tablespoon oil
🍗 1½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
🧅 1 yellow onion, peeled and diced
🥔 1 pound red potatoes, cubed
🌶️ Garlic pepper or lemon pepper, to taste
🔥 Crushed red pepper, to taste
🥫 15-ounce can of cannellini beans
🥣 6 cups water or chicken stock
🥬 1 bunch Lacinato kale, stemmed and roughly chopped
🥛 ¼ cup heavy cream, optional
🍋 Juice of 1 lemon
🌿 Freshly minced parsley
📝 Instructions:
1️⃣ Heat oil in a soup pot. Season chicken with salt and pepper, and cook for 5 minutes on one side.
2️⃣ Flip chicken, add onion, potatoes, garlic pepper, and crushed red pepper. Cook for 5 minutes.
3️⃣ Add beans and water/stock, bring to a boil, then simmer for 45 minutes.
4️⃣ Remove chicken, shred it, and return to the pot.
5️⃣ Add kale and heavy cream, simmer until kale wilts. Finish with lemon juice and parsley.

👩‍🍳 Crockpot Version:

Combine all ingredients except kale and cream in the crockpot.
Cook on high for 3–4 hours or low for 7–8 hours.
Add kale halfway through cooking.
Stir in cream before serving.
💡 Tips:

For a vegetarian version, omit chicken and use vegetable stock.
Adjust the amount of garlic pepper and crushed red pepper to your taste.
Serve with crusty bread for a complete meal.

01/02/2024

My wife make this “Hamburger Vegetable Soup”, y'all help me make her day with compliments ...Be kind 🥰😍
Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
½ onion about
½ cup chopped
2 cloves garlic minced
3 cups beef broth
28 ounces diced tomatoes
1 large can, undrained
6 ounces tomato paste
1 can (or condensed tomato soup)
2-3 potatoes about
4 cups peeled and diced
2 teaspoons beef base or Worcestershire sauce
1 Tablespoon Italian dressing mix or 1 teaspoon salt, 1 ½ teaspoons oregano, and ½ teaspoon pepper
3 cups mixed vegetables fresh or frozen
Instructions:
In a large pot, brown beef, and onion until there the beef is no longer pink and the onion is soft. Drain fat if desired. Add garlic and cook for one minute.
Add broth, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, potatoes, beef base and seasoning mix. Bring to boiling point. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in mixed vegetables and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through.

04/11/2023

Who remembers riding these two rides at Opryland?👇🏻❤️😎🤷🏼‍♂️

04/11/2023

28/12/2022

Hey Ya'll

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have started up a travel site. I finally got my Travel Agent License and working with an Agency. I will be posting and sharing travel deals in the upcoming weeks. Please share if you like, but most importantly, give me a call or message me for some great travel deals.

Bonnie