••••CHRISTMAS SOUP🥗🌭🥔🌰🥘🐔🍷🎄🎁!!••••

(Source: good eats Alton Brown recipe and photos)

••••CHRISTMAS SOUP!!

CHRISTMAS SOUP

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Serves 6

SOFTWARE

1. 1 pound kielbasa, sliced 1/4-inch thick, on the bias
2. Vegetable oil, as needed
3. 8 cloves garlic, minced
4. 1 pound dried red kidney beans, soaked for at least 4 hours or overnight
5. 2 quarts chicken broth
6. 1 pound red potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
7. 6 ounces fresh kale, washed, rinsed and torn into 1-inch pieces
8. 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
9. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
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PROCEDURE

1. Brown the kielbasa in a 7-quart Dutch oven and set over medium-low heat until it has rendered most of its fat, about 15 minutes. Remove the kielbasa from the pot and set aside. If you do not have a least 2 teaspoons of fat, add enough vegetable oil to make 2 teaspoons.
2. Cook the garlic in the fat for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring constantly to prevent the garlic from burning. Add the beans and chicken broth and cook, covered, for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, stir in the potatoes, cover and cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Toss the kale into the pot, cover and cook for an additional 10 minutes, or just until it is tender, but not mushy.
4. Sprinkle with the vinegar and pepper and stir to combine. Return the kielbasa to the pot and cook just until heated through. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve hot.
   
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••••EASY TACO SOUP🍅🧀🥗🌮🌶🌽🥘🍚!!••••

(Source: culinaryhill.com recipe & photos)

••••EASY TACO SOUP🌮🍅🧀!!

••••EASY TACO SOUP RECIPE!!

 Prep Time 5 minutes

 Cook Time 25 minutes

 Total Time 30 minutes

 Servings 12 servings

 Calories 304 calories 

Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 large onion diced (about 2 cups)
• 3 cups water
• 2 (15 ounce) cans kidney beans undrained
• 2 (14 ounce) cans diced tomatoes undrained
• 1 (14 ounce) can whole kernel corn undrained
• 1 (4 ounce) can diced green chilies undrained
• 2 tablespoons homemade taco seasoning or 1 packet store bought
• 1 recipe recipe homemade ranch dressing mix or 1 packet store bought
• tortilla chips and toppings for serving

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Instructions

1. In a Dutch Oven or large stock pot over medium-high heat, cook ground beef and onion until browned, about 5 minutes. Drain well.
2. Add water, beans, tomatoes, corn, chiles, and all juices from cans. Stir in taco seasoning and ranch seasoning.
3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 20 minutes. Or, transfer to a slow cooker, cover, and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 to 8 hours.
4. To serve, place tortilla chips in the bottom of a bowl and ladle soup over the chips. Top with shredded cheese, sour cream, or other toppings as desired.

••••IMMUNITY SOUP🌿🐔🥕🍖🌰🍄!!••••

(Source: cookinglight.com recipe and photos & Ann Taylor Pittman) 

••••IMMUNITY SOUP!!

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 1/2 cups chopped onion

3 celery stalks, thinly sliced

2 large carrots, thinly sliced

1 pound presliced vitamin D-enhanced mushrooms (such as Monterey Mushrooms)

10 medium garlic cloves, minced

8 cups unsalted chicken stock (such as Swanson)

4 thyme sprigs

2 bay leaves

1 (15-oz.) can unsalted chickpeas, drained

2 pounds skinless, bone-in chicken breasts

4 thyme sprigs

2 bay leaves

1 (15-oz.) can unsalted chickpeas, drained

2 pounds skinless, bone-in chicken breasts

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Directions

Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium. Add onion, celery, and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic; cook, stirring often, 3 minutes. Stir in stock, thyme, bay leaves, and chickpeas; bring to a simmer. Add chicken, salt, and red pepper; cover and simmer until chicken is done, about 25 minutes.

Remove chicken from Dutch oven; cool slightly. Shred meat with 2 forks; discard bones. Stir chicken and kale into soup; cover and simmer until kale is just tender, about 5 minutes. Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaves.

••••OH••CHRISTMAS TREE 🎄🎁🌲🎈🎉🛍🎊🎀!!••••

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••••OH••CHRISTMAS TREE🎄🎁🎈🎉🛍🎊🎀

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••••OH••CHRISTMAS TREE🎄🎁🎈🎉🛍🎊🎀

O Christmas Tree

Aretha Franklin

LYRICS

O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How lovely are thy branches
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How lovely are thy branches

Your boughs so green in summertime
Stay bravely green in wintertime
O tannenbaum, o Christmas tree
How lovely are thy branches

Let us all remember
In our gift giving and our merriment
With our family and friends and loved ones
The real and true meaning of Christmas
The birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

O tannenbaum, o tannenbaum
How lovely are, are thy brancheso
O tannenbaum, o tannenbaum
How lovely are, how lovely are thy branches

The pillars all please faithfully
Our trust in God unchangedly
O tannenbaum, o tannenbaum
How love, lovely are thy branches

On Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen
Ha ha ha ha

Songwriters: Bruce L Fowler / Traditional / Pd Traditional

O Christmas Tree lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, European American Music Distributors Company

••••BEEF AND TOMATO MACARONI SOUP🍅🥘🌰🥩🍮🍛🍜🍶🥕🌿🌽🧀!!••••

(Source: cookingclassy.com recipe & photos)

••••BEEF AND TOMATO MACARONI SOUP!!

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Beef and Tomato Macaroni Soup

Yield: About 5 servings

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 1/4 cups chopped yellow onion (1 small)1 cup chopped carrots (2 medium)
• 2 cloves garlic , minced
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 cups low-sodium beef broth
• 2 (8 oz) cans tomato sauce
• 1 1/2 (14.5 oz) cans petite diced tomatoes
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 Tbsp chopped fresh marjoram (or 1 tsp dried)
• 2 tsp chopped fresh thyme (or 3/4 tsp dried)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 1/4 cups (5.6 oz) dry small elbow pasta
• 1 1/2 cups frozen corn (optional)
• Fresh chopped parsley and finely grated parmesan cheese , for serving

Instructions

1. Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and carrots and saute 3 minutes then add garlic and saute 1 minute longer. Pour mixture onto a plate.
2. Heat remaining 1 Tbsp olive oil in pot over medium-high heat, add beef, season with salt and pepper and cook until browned. Drain fat from beef.
3. Return sauteed veggies to pot along with beef broth, tomato sauce, tomatoes, Worcestershire, marjoram, thyme, bay leaves and season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil. Add in pasta, cover and reduce heat to medium,. Boil stirring occasionally, until pasta has cooked through, about 15 - 20 minutes. If adding corn, stir in corn during last 3 minutes of cooking.
4. Remove bay leaves, serve warm garnished with fresh parsley and parmesan cheese if desired.
   
   

   
5. Recipe source: Cooking Classy

••••CARROTS IN THE KITCHEN🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕!!••••

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••••CARROTS IN THE KITCHEN🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕!

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••WHEN YOU’RE PURCHASING CARROTS TO 

••USE IN YOUR COOKING, MAKE SURE TO 

••SELECT FIRM, BRIGHT-ORANGE CARROTS.

••THEY SHOULD BE FREE OF CRACKS OR 

••DRY SPOTS.  YOU CAN STORE YOUR 

••CARROTS IN A PLASTIC BAG IN THE 

••REFRIGERATOR FOR UP TO 2 WEEKS.

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••AS A FUN TOPPER TO WARM BOWLS OF

••SOUP, TRY USING GRATED CARROTS.

••OR USE GRATED CARROTS AS A GARNISH

••INSTEAD OF CHEESE.  IT ADDS COLOR 

••WITHOUT THE CALORIES!!

••••BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP:)🍠🌶🐔🍖🥛🍮🏝🥘!!••••

(Source: Courtesy of Evana & Jim recipe & friend & gimmesomeoven.com photos)

••••BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP!!

••••INGREDIENTS••••

••1 3 lb BUTTERNUT SQUASH 

••1 2 lb ACORN SQUASH 

••2 CUPS CHOPPPED ONION

••1 TABLESPOON OIL

••3-14 OZ CANS CHICKEN BROTH

••1 CAN COCONUT MILK

••3/4 TEASPOON SALT

••1/8 TEASPOON PEPPER 

••NOTE: MAY ADD CURRY POWDER OR SAGE

••1 TEASPOON,  IF DESIRED

••ALSO YOU CAN ADD RED PEPPER FLAKES

••TO ADD A LITTLE SPICE; 1/4 TEASPOON 

••ALSO ADDED 1/2 TEASPOON PEPPER AND 

••1 TEASPOON SAGE

••••DIRECTIONS••••

••PEEL AND CUBE SQUASH AND COMBINE

••WITH ONION,  ADDING OIL.  ROAST ON

••A BAKING SHEET FOR 30-60 MINUTES AT

••425 DEGREES.

••PURÉE THE COOKED SQUASH AND ONIONS 

••IN A FOOD PROCESSOR OR BLENDER, 

••ADDING BROTH TO MAKE SMOOTH. HEAT

••HEAT THIS IN A SOUP POT,  ADDING THE 

••REMAINING INGREDIENTS UNTIL HEATED

••THROUGH.  MAY ADD 1/3 TO 1/2 AND 1/2 AT

••END TO MAKE CREAMIER.

••••NEED SOME STRESS RELIEF?😧🤢😮🤭😩🤪!!••••

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••••NEED SOME STRESS RELIEF??

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