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Baked potato soup with Cheddar cheese and bacon

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Baked Potato Soup with Cheddar and Bacon Recipe

This baked potato soup recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog in April 2011. There are a few recipes that every
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Chili in a white bowl with a spoon and napkin with red stripes

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Try My Chili Recipe

Chili is not summer food in my house. It's what you get when the cold winds blow and we hunker down in the house,
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Chicken and dumplings in a bowl with a spoon

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My Favorite Soup and Stew Recipes

This is a collection of my favorite soup and stew recipes. If I had to pick a favorite food category, I think it would
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Vegetable soup in a bowl on a white china plate

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Summer Vegetable Soup Recipe

First published on A Cook and Her Books blogspot September 30, 2012 with the title "Sufferin' Sucotash." Whenever I
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Bowl filled with seafood chowder

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Seafood Chowder Recipe

I've carried this recipe around for quite a few years. It's from Seventeen magazine circa early 80s. I remember showing
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White chicken chili in a bowl

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Try My Favorite White Chicken Chili Recipe

I love a "dump and do" recipe, and this one is doubly good because it's a back-of-the-can recipe. Canned good recipes
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Food Travel

Chicken & Dumplings with Chef Scott Peacock

On the kind of crisp October day that makes you long for good friends and good food, pandemic be damned, I found myself
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