Here’s a soup recipe that’ll be sure to warm your chilled bones.  If you love tacos, you’ll love this taco soup! I do love tacos, and I also love soup. Good soups – which are usually home made of course. I also LOVE Panera Bread’s Broccoli Cheddar Soup (and so do our kids). I had some today as a matter of fact. It was just the pick-me-up I needed in between the stores of a little Christmas shopping.  Ate it in a quiet van.  It was the weirdest experience! lol

Now I didn’t invent this Taco Soup recipe, but I did revise it a bit to make it…well, better!  No one needs as many beans… (READ MORE......) | 1 Comment

Yesterday morning, with several tasks on the day’s agenda ahead of me, I decided I was going to make that soup one way or another! Michael had to be out on a morning job, so to manage schooling the little ones and make my soup, the kids took all of their school work and moved to the breakfast bar from the school room.  It was the perfect set up for us to still be able to work together, communicate and multi-task. So they got to work in their books, taking turns reading the concepts and directions, etc, and I got to chopping! : )

Of course, they were on the distracted side, wanting to watch what I was doing… (READ MORE......) | 4 Comments

It’s been good soup-kind-of-days, don’t you think?  At least it has been in these New England parts. Rainy, gray, and cold.  Well, cold compared to the first real spell of spring weather we were so spoiled with last week, anyway.  So not only does it just sound good to me, but my maternal instinct just wants to make it for my kids and husband. To make something so healthy and hearty, and serve it to them, knowing that it warms their bodies and is so good for them, just makes me sigh a good kind of sigh. The kids just love to eat anyway.  It’s like a little celebration every time.  Watching them enjoy anything I make for them though… (READ MORE......)