French Onion Soup

This is one of my families favorite soups. It's really fast and simple, but the flavors are pure comfort.  On a cold day this really hits the spot!

Lasagna Soup

We had this tonight for dinner.  It was SO good.  It was a hit and I'll be making this again soon! I swear it was like lasagna in a bowl. And that can't be bad!

Oven Baked Beans

These beans are so good.  Perfect for fall weather as it warms you up and gives that happy glow feeling while you're eating.  

Crock Pot Chicken And Broccoli

This crock pot was super easy to make, and the flavors were spot on.  Although it looks a lot like a soup, I served it over a baked potato.  It would also go great over rice.

Olive Garden Potato Soup

Imagine, if you will, it's Fall, and your family is having a pot luck, where everyone is to bring a dish.  Now, picture finding a soup loaded with sausage, potatoes, and bacon on the buffet table.  That is where I found this dish almost two years ago and after getting a copy of the recipe from my sister-in-law I've never looked back.  It's so yummy, and is guaranteed to warm you up on a cool day.  Plus, you can make it either as a crock pot, (just cook the sausage before adding it to the pot), or as an on the stove top dish.  I'll give you the big buffet pleaser recipe first, then the crock pot recipe.  Unless you have a ginormous mammoth sized crock pot (which I don't), you'll want to use smaller quantities.

Don't let this image fool you! This soup is to die for!

Crock Pot Corn and Potato Soup

I had a really great day today at the Amish School Auction here in Oklahoma.  They hold it once a year and it has a little of everything.  Arts and crafts booths, nick knacks, & this and that.  You park in this huge field and spend your time walking and talking, looking around.  The Amish serve a pancake breakfast in the early A.M. and it's really good.  There's a livestock auction, and everything else you can think of auction later in the A.M., as well as an area where a lot of quilts are displayed.  But my favorite thing they have is the pies.  Oh me oh my, the pies.  Since it's only once a year, we usually get 4 pies and freeze them to bring out a little as we go.  They have so many different kinds.  We got apricot, pecan, pineapple coconut, and cherry.  And they never disappoint!  Now that I got pie out of my system, I'd like to introduce you to todays dinner.  Crock Pot Corn and Potato soup.  This soup is dreamy.  I've been making it since Spring and it is so comforting and the calorie count isn't bad at all.  And because it's a crock pot recipe, its fast and easy.

Crustless Pot Pie

One word perfectly describes this dish. YUM.  When we were first starting to lose weight, I didn't want to cut hamburger completely out of our lives.  So once a month I make this.  It is pure comfort food and just melts in your mouth. Enjoy!

Crock Pot Ground Turkey Soup

I had a really nice visit from an Uncle I hadn't seen in about 5 years today.  It was so nice catching up with him I completely let the time go.  My original plan was to take a picture of the crock pot before I got it going, and then after it was ready to eat.  By the time I realized I had never taken a picture of the 'ready to eat' photo, we were washing up dinner dishes and there was so little of the soup left, it was hardly photo worthy.  But, the 'pre' photo should give you an idea of what it'll look like when it's ready to eat.
For this recipe, we use either rabbit or turkey.  My Dad makes a really good Italian rabbit sausage, and I use it whenever we come across a dish that looks like it'll benefit from a little more zing.  However; this dish is really good with regular turkey as well =)