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Coconut Lime Chicken Soup

Do you ever read a recipe and just crave something for days...until you get a chance to make it! That is precisely what this Coconut Lime Chicken Soup recipe did, swirling through my mind, clawing at my cravings! Had to wait a few days, until we had eaten through our menu enough to make it! I tweaked the recipe with more veggies and made it for lunch. At the same time I was throwing Spicy Beef Curry into the crock pot. Why cut vegetables twice, just cut up a few more and you have two meals for virtually the same effort! I saved all the "vegetable scraps" to make some Bone Building Broth, so ended up pulling a ton of future meals out of this one simple prep time.

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Curried Carrot Soup

A friend posted Martha Stewart's yummy Curried Carrot Soup recipe a while back and I have been waiting for an opportunity to make it. It sounded so yummy - but I wondered if my family would actually like it. If it doesn't have jalapenos, habaneros or cayenne pepper, they can be a little picky.

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Spicy Corn Chowder GF CF

We have a decided obsession with corn chowder in our family. It started with Jason's Deli and their super yummy Poblano Corn Chowder (our recipe here), and then Wolfgang Puck's canned Corn Chowder. One chilly, dreary, freezing winter day, I decided I could not live without corn chowder, that was safe to eat on a gluten free, casein free diet. I was leaving out the low carb, grain free part, because I just wanted a creamy, delicious, slightly spicy bowl of corn chowder.

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Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup

Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup whips together out of a few "feed the freezer" Prudent Wife items. A great recipe to make your life easier, using simple premade Fajita Meat in Bulk! Ideal for a cold fall or winter day, chasing the chill with it's slightly smokey, slightly spicy Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup goodness! Originally planned to pop in the crockpot before we left for church Sunday morning, to come home to a hot, delicious soup!

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Chicken and Dumplings

Grandma Wilkie was the best cook I have ever met. As a child, we would wait for our annual summer visits, when she would cook up huge vats of Chicken N Dumplins when we came to visit. Grandma Wilkie made everything look so easy, just whipping around her tiny kitchen, a big hen poaching in broth, mixing then rolling noodle dough, peppering, and somehow churning out oatmeal cakes, and a breakfast of the world's best fluffy light biscuits and perfectly cooked eggs.

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Bone Building Broth

A passion for history, combined with a love for nourishing foods and a passion for reading cookbooks helped perfect our Bone Building Broth. It all began with our time as living historians reenacting the American Civil War. This recipe grew out of reading accounts of housewives and nurses, who used a similar broth to nurse soldiers back to help.

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Fiery Salsa Vegetable Soup

Fiery Salsa Vegetable Soup will restore health with a tang and a twist! 

• 2 onions
• 3 cloves of garlic (all I had after making stock) would do 6-8 next time
• Couple of handfuls of carrots, celery cut
• 1 large can diced tomatoes

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Chicken Tortilla Soup ~ Anti-inflammatory Style

What sounds better than a warm and nourishing bowl of chicken soup on a winter day, when the mercury is hovering around the freezing point? How about a delicious bowl of Chicken Tortilla Soup adapted from a recipe my friend Lucy makes, back home in CA? I have switched to our fantastic “Bone Building Broth” (on The Prudent Wife website) and added more vegetables and garlic, to up the anti-oxidants and nutrition. Just reading the ingredients, you can almost taste it!

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Lisa's Famous Spicy Chili

Today is a gorgeous day, sun shining brilliantly, blue purple mountains in the background, lake glittering, trees barren in their winter slumber, yet it is only 22 degrees! The perfect day to come home from church to a bubbling crockpot full of homemade, spicy chili made completely from scratch, with narry a preservative in it!

Chili is a very personal thing, and everybody has a different recipe, and here is one of our favorites! While there are several steps, it really whips up easily with little stress and you know you are giving your family a protein packed power meal that is really inexpensive to make! Use as many organic ingredients as you possibly can for the healthiest chili out there. Serve it up with our Skillet Sizzled Cornbread.

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Organic Curried Celery Soup

Do you ever find yourself needing to use up that EXPENSIVE organic celery before it goes bad? Well here is a delightful soup recipe that I came across as I was contemplating what to do with my celery!

Organic Curried Celery Soup ~  A lunchtime specialty

• 2 potatoes - Chopped
• 1 onion – Chopped
• 2 tablespoons Oil (Organic butter, Extra Virgin Olive Oil or Coconut Oil)

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Cucumber Soup ~ Crock Pot ~ Vietnamese Recipe

This recipe came from Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining, Slow Cooker Favorites for All Year Round. I love to read cookbooks, and this recipe, Elijah's Cucumber Soup fascinated me. Cooked cukes? Cuke Soup in the crock pot?  I made this Vietnamese recipe last night and it was actually very good! When your garden is coming up cucumbers - this is a great way to use them up!

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Veggie Beef Stew

Whip up a delicious crock pot full of slow cooked, savory veggie beef stew. Exploding with flavor, herbs and veggies, this soup is a real treat on a cold fall or winter evening and will warm you up with the delicious aroma as it cooks all day. Enjoy using the prudent wife's best friend, the crockpot in this FAST and healthy recipe that in your slow cooker!

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Chicken Poblano Chowder Recipe

I am a die hard fan of Jason’s Deli! They have an amazing Poblano Corn Chowder that is out of this world! Creamy, delicious, slightly spicy with the poblano peppers – it is superb on a cold wintery day.

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