Tag: one pot meals
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One pot spaghetti is spaghetti with meat sauce without the colander, the second pot, or the pile of dishes. The beef browns, the sauce builds, and the dry noodles cook right in the tomato broth, soaking up flavor as they soften. About 30 minutes later you have a thick, saucy pot of pasta that tastes…
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Every family has a soup that means home. In my house, it is this one. My mother made this beef vegetable soup recipe every Sunday in winter, and the whole house smelled like it by noon. Tender chunks of beef, potatoes that soaked up the broth, carrots gone sweet from the long simmer. We ate…
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I grew up thinking pinto beans were only for refried beans and chili. Then I spent a summer in Texas with my aunt, and her pinto bean soup recipe changed my mind completely. Smoky, hearty, with big soft beans in a broth so flavorful I mopped the bowl clean with cornbread. I asked her for…
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The first time I made this white bean soup recipe, it was an accident. I had planned a completely different dinner, but the chicken I was going to use smelled off when I opened the package. It was 5:30 and my kids were already asking what was for dinner. All I had was a pantry…
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I’ll be honest: the first time someone served me lentil soup, I smiled politely and thought, this is going to taste like wet cardboard. It was at a friend’s house, gray lentils floating in gray broth, and I ate it because I am a polite guest, not because I enjoyed it. Back then, I never…
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A pot of cabbage soup simmering on the stove fills the kitchen with the smell of sweet onion, garlic, and tomatoes warming into a golden, savory broth. Then my neighbor showed up with a bowl when I had a bad cold, and I had to quietly eat my words. It was bright and savory, full…
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Cheeseburger Soup Recipe It was a cold Tuesday night, the kind where everyone is hungry and nobody can agree on dinner. My kids wanted cheeseburgers. I had a pound of ground beef in the fridge, but no buns, and honestly no energy for shaping patties and scrubbing a splattered stovetop. So I did what any…