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Thick and Hearty Garbanzo Bean Soup

Vegan garbanzo bean soup using canned beans.

After the ridiculous indulgence of the smoked Gouda cauliflower gratin (or maybe you used skim milk and it wasn’t so bad?), I felt like it was time to lighten up the blog without compromising on heartiness.  I mean, it is freezing outside after all.  This garbanzo bean soup has been…

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Lucky Bread: Onions, provolone, and smoked paprika butter

Onion, smoked paprika, and provolone baked bread

It’s still cold as hell out, which means the comfort food is going to keep on coming!  Today I’m sharing with you a classic family recipe: Lucky Bread.  Why do we call it Lucky Bread?  Who the hell knows.  I’m pretty confident that this came from a PTA cookbook from…

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Make This Smoked Gouda Cauliflower Gratin Tonight!

Smoked Gouda cauliflower gratin

We had a snowstorm here in Richmond this weekend, and that calls for comfort food, right?  I’d promised some friends that I’d get around to posting my recipe for smoked Gouda cauliflower gratin so this snow storm felt like just the right time for this creamy goodness.  Here’s the thing…

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Ridiculoulsly Easy Crock Pot Mushroom and Wild Rice Soup

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m still not quite on board with the whole crock pot thing.  I just cannot decide in the morning what I’m going to want for dinner that night.  For instance, I thought this morning that I would definitely want soup for dinner but then I got…

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Crock Pot Tortilla “Breakfast” Casserole

Hey, y’all.  So I feel like I’m still not getting the whole Crock Pot/Slow Cooker thing the way others do.  It seems like an awesome thing to come home and find dinner waiting for you, but I definitely don’t feel like going to the kitchen in the morning.  I’m an…

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Creamy Crock Pot Tortellini Soup

As you may have gathered from the gnocchi soup post, I have quite the love for creamy soups.  And as you might be guessing from the scarcity of posts of late, I’m also a little short on time.  Over the years I’ve tried and tried to find a good slow-cooker…

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