Faith, Food and Family

New YouTube video will be up Thursday November 19th at 9am Central Time! Watch me make this over on my YouTube channel Faith, Food and Family ! This soup is so delcious and what's even better is that my super picky kid loves this! You can add other typical pizza toppings to this if you like. So many possibilities. This is also such a quick and easy recipe. I highly recommend it! Pizza Ramen Soup Adapted from The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cookbook by Peggy Paul Casella Ingredients: ½ cup of diced pepperoni (about 2 ounces) 1 12oz bag of Cajun style mirepoix (onions, celery and green peppers) (you can also use fresh) 1-2 tbsp of minced garlic (go by taste, we like a lot of garlic) 1 quart of chicken broth or stock (I use unsalted) 1 15oz jar of pizza sauce 3 tbsp of grated parmesan cheese One 3 ½ ounce package of unflavored instant, ramen noodles (I use dried udon noodles) 1 tbsp of Italian seasoning 1 tsp of oregano Salt and pepper to taste Shredded mozzar...

New YouTube video is up! Check out my YouTube Channel Faith, Food and Family ! This recipe is so good! I highly recommend you make it soon! Plus it’s so easy to throw in the crockpot! Crockpot Southwestern Taco Chili Ingredients: 1 pound of Velveeta cubed or 2 8oz packages of the Velveeta Shreds 1 ½ pounds of ground beef, cooked 1 can of cream style corn 2 cans of Rotel 1 tsp cumin 1 pkg of taco seasoning Combine all ingredients in your crockpot. Cook on High for 3 hours or Low for 4-5. Serve with desired toppings. Some suggestions are tortilla chips or strips, sour cream, jalapenos, and avocadoes. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do! Let me know if you try it!

This time of year, there is nothing better than some home cooked soup. It's good year around, but just even better in the winter. My newest cookbook to my collection is all about soups, so I was excited to look through and see what all there was. What is so neat about this book is that this group of ladies actually decided to form a soup club. Hence the name, The Soup Club Cookbook by Courtney Allison, Tina Carr, Caroline Laskow, and Julie Peacock. On page 11, they explain a bit more about how it works...."What we do is simple: We take turns cooking big pots of soup, enough to feed our four families. We drop off the soup, along with sides and garnishes, at the homes of our three other club members. This happens once a week, which means that we each cook our big pot of soup once a month. The other three weeks, we are treats to one another's home cooking". What a great idea! This book is full of so many different yummy soups! Soups like Lentil soup, Egg Drop ...

There is a take and bake place in town that has the most amazing lemon chicken artichoke soup. I decided to try to make a copy of it at home. This soup isn’t exactly like the one at the local shop here, but it’s close. This recipe is so good and highly addictive! I encourage you to try it as soon as you can! Lemon Chicken Artichoke Soup Ingredients: ½ stick of butter 1 tbsp oilive oil 5 cloves of garlic, minced 2 yellow onions, diced 2 12oz jars of quartered artichoke hearts in water (drained, rinsed and diced) 2-3 lemons 2-3 cups of cooked chicken breasts, diced 1 tsp of dried oregano 8 cups of reduced sodium chicken broth 2 cups of half & half Salt and pepper to taste In a 5-6 qt. stockpot over medium heat, melt butter and add the olive oil. Sauté the onions until translucent, add the garlic and then cook for a minute more. Add the artichoke hearts and salt and pepper if desired and cook for 3-5 minutes. Next, add your chicken stock. Allow this to come to ...

I’m finally getting around to my first recipe from one of the cookbooks I reviewed. I really am sorry it took so long, but life has been pretty hectic lately. My husband and I are both back in school full-time and we have begun homeschooling our oldest. This recipe is from My Irish Table by Cathal Armstrong and David Hagedorn. You can find my review of the cookbook here . Beef Stew Serves 6 Ingredients: 1.5 pounds of beef stew meat cut into 1-inch cubes Kosher Salt and freshly ground pepper 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 yellow onion, diced 4 carrots, peeled and diced 4 celery stalks, diced 8 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped 1 tablespoons all-purpose flour 3 cups of veal demi-glace or store bought beef broth 1 serrano chile, coarsely chopped, with seeds 3 large bay leaves 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary leaves Brown the beef : Pat the beef cubes dry on all sides with paper towels and season well with salt and pepper. I...

Time has certainly gotten away from me this month. My intentions were to blog. But every week at least one person has been sick. Nothing too bad thankfully but just enough when you add in other things that I have not been able to blog like I would have liked. So I am sorry I have been missing. I have a very yummy recipe to offer up to help make up for it. :) I had some friends over the other night and my intentions were to make a salad and dessert. However, the weather has started to cool down this week and I wanted to take advantage of that. I wanted to make soup instead. So I decided on Chicken Tortilla Soup in the crockpot. It was the first time I've made it and it was delicious! Chicken Tortilla Soup 2 onions, diced 5 cloves of garlic, minced (I used my garlic press) 2 tbsp of oil (I used canola) 4 tsp chili powder 2 tsp cumin 2 28oz cans of crushed tomatoes 2 cans of chicken broth 2 1/2 cups of water 1 16 oz bag of frozen corn 1 4oz can of green chiles 1 can of mild rotel (I u...