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Best Slow Cooker French Onion Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 45 Comments

A bowl of steaming Slow Cooker French Onion Soup with a slice of crusty french bread and melted cheese on top.

The Lowly Onion Becomes Slow Cooker Crockpot French Onion Soup This recipe for Slow Cooker French Onion Soup allows the lowly onion, the bridesmaid never the bride of the culinary world, to show off its star quality.  How many savory recipes, particularly soup recipes, can you think of that don't include the onion?  Not many!  It always seems to be … [Read more...]

Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 130 Comments

A steaming bowl of Butternut Squash soup with crispy croutons.

Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Try this Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe for a fall evening pleaser or a perfect course for Thanksgiving Dinner This Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a Thompson family favorite. I have to admit that I love all the members of the squash/pumpkin family and for that reason I have a great collection of squash and … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 26 Comments

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Olive Garden eat your heart out - it's Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana Soup for supper! Winter seems like a soup fest!  If I have a fire burning in the kitchen wood stove, I will leave pot of soup simmering on it. But even in the winter, I don't always have the time to babysit the kitchen woodstove so I rely on my slow cooker.  Crock pot cookin' is a favorite of mine … [Read more...]

New England Clam Chowder or Manhattan Clam Chowder?

by Sheryl Thompson 5 Comments

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New England Clam Chowder or Manhattan Clam Chowder? It's a Tale of Two Chowders! I live in northern Maine at the very northern tip of the New England region.  In the winter it is brutally cold here and a good bowl of steaming clam chowder can warm you like nothing else. Now here in Maine when you say clam chowder, there's no doubt that everybody thinks of traditional New … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Curried Carrot Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 1 Comment

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Easy to grow! Tasty to eat! Slow Cooker Curried Carrot Soup reaps the harvest rewards... Carrots are a huge favorite vegetable in the Thompson family.  In fact, they are at the top of everyone's list so when we plant our garden in the spring they are always guaranteed a large section of the garden. With proper soil, they are quite easy to cultivate and they … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Mushroom Barley Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 32 Comments

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Slow Cooker Mushroom Barley Soup is perfect for chilly fall days! There's nothing like a good slow cooker soup on a chilly fall day and this Slow Cooker Mushroom Barley Soup is satisfying, tasty, and healthy. Healthy and good, that's a win-win for me! This recipe makes a flavorful soup and the mushrooms add a "meatiness" to it while keeping it a healthy … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Beef Curry Soup Recipe

by Sheryl Thompson 20 Comments

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  Beef Curry Soup, yummy and fragrant simmering in the Slow Cooker = a little bit of Heaven here on earth!   It's almost May here in the North Maine Woods but the weather has been cold and rainy.  We even had a snow storm a week ago!  This seems like it has been an endless winter and today we have a cold, bone chilling drizzle and gloomy skies. It's the … [Read more...]

Creamy Tomato Bisque

by Sheryl Thompson 43 Comments

steaming bowl of creamy tomato bisque soup

Creamy Tomato Bisque ....variation on a childhood favorite! Creamy Tomato Bisque was on the menu last night at the Thompson house and it is a family favorite! When I was a kid, Campbell's Tomato Soup was my favorite soup. I would have eaten my favorite combo of Campbell's Tomato Soup and a grilled cheese sandwich at every meal if the adults in my life would have allowed … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe

by Sheryl Thompson 61 Comments

Slow Cooker Chicken Soup simmering in a crockpot

Chicken Vegetable Soup in a Slow Cooker Hearty and healthy, this warming slow cooker chicken vegetable soup recipe can make the coldest day more cozy. It is quick to get together, and is a great way to use up left-over chicken, Bill likes  dumplings so sometimes I put those in during the last half hour of cooking.  If I don't make dumplings, I make a batch of cheese … [Read more...]

Good Ol’ Vegetable Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 30 Comments

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   Vegetable Soup Recipe Vegetable Soup.... it's a great nutritious pleaser at our house. We had another Souper Sunday Supper last night with a great big pot of Vegetable Soup! Sometimes it just good to go back to basics and there is nothing more basic than Vegetable Soup. We spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon getting ready for Hurricane Sandy.  We never get … [Read more...]

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