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Cheeseburger Your Way Soup

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Happy National Cheeseburger Day! I saw a recipe for cheeseburger soup last week and decided to do a little tweaking. OK...a lot of tweaking. I have fresh basil and parsley, so saw no reason to use dried. I had leftover mashed potatoes I needed to use up, so I went with that instead of the diced. Overall, this is a quick soup to throw together, and it tastes wonderful. Another beautiful thing about it is you can have a variety of toppings available. People do like their cheeseburgers differently, of course. I really wish I had some green chiles defrosted, because I definitely would have added those in. But is is great the way it is :) Cheeseburger Your Way Soup Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (preferably grass fed) 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup shredded carrots 1 tablespoon fresh chopped basil (sub 1 tsp dried basil) 1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley (sub 1 tsp dried parsley flakes) 4 tablespoons butter 4 cups chicken broth (or 4 cups hot water and ...

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

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I came home from work on Thursday with the knowledge I was coming down with something. I knew I would want chicken soup - but I also knew it wasn't going to happen that night.  After hunting around a bit, I found a recipe for chicken tortilla soup in a slow cooker ( http://www.cookingclassy.com/2014/12/slow-cooker-chicken-tortilla-soup-2/ ) so I adapted it a bit - and here it is. BTW, I don't have any really cool pictures, so I will use one - and then I refer you to the awesome blog where I got the original recipe for the cool pictures (Difference between a  Blogger <the other person> and a person who write a few blog posts every now and again <me>.) Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup 5 teaspoons chicken Better Than Bouillon 5 cups boiling water (can substitute 5 cups chicken broth or stock) 6 large, frozen Roma tomatoes (can substitute a can of petite-diced tomatoes) 1 roughly chopped onion (I use sweet onions - they don't hurt my eyes when I cut the...