Good morning! I’m SO over-the-moon excited to be here today sharing my very first guest post as an OSSS contributor for 2015 – I’m looking forward to sharing here on the fourth Thursday of each and every month! If we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet, I’m Kristi, the gal behind making it in the mountains where I share all sorts of budget friendly DIY projects as we work to transform our builder basic home into a rustic mountain retreat.
I know, I know … everybody claims that their recipe is THE BEST, right? I promise friends, this one is the real deal! It’s the best French Onion Soup I’ve ever had! I mean EVER! Cross my heart, hope to die. But don’t take my word for it – go ahead and try it for yourself. It’s SO easy to make that there’s really no excuse not to.
Soup and Salads
Easy Slow Cooker Santa Fe Chicken Soup (she: Victoria)
Since I’m a busy mama with a preschooler, toddler and now a newborn, I wanted to share with you one of our family’s favorite winter recipes using the greatest kitchen appliance every invented (in my opinion at least) … the slow cooker.
I love the simplicity of throwing all the ingredients in during the morning hours, setting the timer and walking away allowing it to slowly cook a savory and mouthwatering dish to be ready just in time for dinner.
I probably use my slow cooker at least twice a week, even more now that my days just got a lot busier!
One of our family’s favorite winter recipes is this easy slow cooker Santa Fe Chicken Soup recipe. Not only is it packed with flavor but it’s also pretty frugal to make too which is always a plus in my book! I love easy, delicious, crowd pleasing recipes that uses simple ingredients, many of which I usually always have on hand in my pantry, freezer or refrigerator.
Rich Roasted Tomato Basil Soup Recipe (she: Jen from PinkWhen)
It’s national soup month and one of my FAVORITE soups to make, eat, and share, is this Rich Roasted Tomato Basil Soup Recipe. There are so many different options for tomato soup, but this roasted tomato basil soup is by far my favorite. By the way, my name is Jen, and I am over here today visiting from PinkWhen, a lifestyle blog where you can find lots of fun DIY ideas and recipes. I am excited to be joining the contributor team this year and look forward to sharing more with you this coming year.
25 Delicious Recipes for Blendtec Blenders
Do you have a Blendtec yet?? If you don’t, you should definitely put it on your wish list. They’re like the queen of all blenders… blending up everything from smoothies, to soups, to cell phones, like it’s nothing. There are several different models, ranging in price. But, a lot of people don’t know that Blendtec…
35 Fabulous Fall Soups (she: Mariah)
I’m a little bit obsessed with fall; the weather, the leaves, the colors, the pumpkins, the clothes, and the SOUP! Fall soups. There is nothing quite like a hot bowl of soup on a chilly fall day to warm you right up!
Come check out these super delicious and super WARM fall soups that I rounded-up just for you! I’m ready to start checking off the list right now. 🙂
Slow Cooker Chunky Clam Chowder (she: Gina)
Hi there everyone!!! It’s Gina from Kleinworth & Co. Hope you all are as excited about this chilly fall weather as I am. The colors have faded here in North Idaho & the trees are bare. It won’t be long before the snow has fallen. Which means it’s time for soup. I love throwing a bunch of ingredients into the slow cooker & smelling that wonderfulness drifting through the house all day long. Then when it’s dark & it’s dinner time we can sit down for a warm bowl of something delicious. My current favorite is this slow cooker Chunky Clam Chowder.
Cheesy Bacon Potato Soup in a Bread Bowl (she: Jana)
Happy Fall Or So She Says readers! It’s Jana here again from Double the Deliciousness and I’ve got a recipe that is so hearty, cheesy and perfect for Fall that it’ll be a staple on your Fall menu. For my family it’s a weekly staple!
I love that it is pretty inexpensive (minus the bacon…jeeze it’s getting out of control!) and easy to throw together. We don’t even peel our potatoes, just wash well and dice. This cheesy bacon potato soup can be ready in about 30 minutes. Perfect!
Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad (she: Ruthie)
Good morning to all my friends at Or so she says…
It’s Ruthie from Cooking with Ruthie and I’m so excited to be back again with you today! I love my garden and creating delicious ways to use the veggies that it produces is just so much fun.
Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad is one of my favorite ways to eat fresh tomatoes.
Well, actually… Caprese anything and I’m all over it! I’m seriously totally in love with that fresh mozzarella and basil- you’ll never get me away from the table 🙂
The only tomatoes that are ripe in my garden so far are the Sunburst variety BUT, I am growing several different varieties of heirloom tomatoes and I just can’t wait for them to ripen up!
Copycat Panera Bread Broccoli Cheese Soup (she: Ruthie)
Hello to all my friends at Or so she Says!
It’s Ruthie from Whats Cooking with Ruthie and I’m so happy to be back… I love sharing some of the yummy cooking that comes out of my kitchen with y’all each month.
Spring is that crazy time of year when the weather can flip from a warm sunny days a to cold and wintery one without a moments notice! At least in my neck of the woods 🙂 Soooo, there’s no better way than a little Panera Bread Broccoli Cheese Soup (copycat) to help stay warm and cozy even on those chilly days!
Pear and Pecan Spring Salad (she: Jana)
Hello everyone! It’s Jana from Double the Deliciousness here to bring you another fabulous recipe!
When it starts warming up and the days start getting longer I only want to eat sandwiches and salads (much to the dismay of my meat & potatoes kind of family). And this, my friends, is one of my favorite go-to salads. My friend told me about this wonderful pear and pecan spring salad. She proceeded to tell me all the ingredients in it and I wasn’t too excited about it, but then she made it…and I tried it… and I was hooked! The sweet and savory of this salad blends perfectly with poppyseed and vinaigrette dressings! Even my kids enjoy it, and that’s saying a lot for a salad! (although 2 of them do pick out the cranberries.:))
So, do me a solid and try this one…don’t judge it before you know it or you’ll be missing out!
White Bean Pesto Soup (she: Cathy)
I don’t know about where you live….but where I live, it’s COLD! Not as cold as it has been, that’s for sure, but cold enough that you don’t really want to be outside. EVER! And cold enough that when you are outside for any extended period of time, all you want to do is come back inside, put on some sweatpants, and eat a big bowl of soup! This White Bean Pesto Soup is the perfect thing to cozy up to on a cold winter day. It combines some of my favorite things….and best of all, it’s topped with a big spoonful of pesto to give it an amazingly rich and delicious flavor! So even if you did happen to find yourself outside in the cold, you wouldn’t mind. Because at least you’d know you have THIS to look forward to!
Butternut Squash Soup (she: Ruthie)
Hi to all of my friends at Or so she says , it’s Ruthie from What’s Cooking with Ruthie.
I’m SO excited to be back this month to share another yummy with y’all! I love to make delicious soups but I especially love it in the winter time! Do you love butternut squash? I do, but sometimes it’s hard to cut it all up when you’re in a hurry. I found some awesome frozen butternut squash at the grocery store and it makes this soup lickity-split to throw together!
