An Easy Delicious Crock Pot Soup

Taco Soup
(From Lisa Willis)

Ingredients:

1 lb hamburger
2 cups chopped carrots
2 cups chopped celery
1 cup beef broth
2 cans cream of potato soup
1 pkg. taco seasoning
2 cans kidney beans
1 sm can tomato sauce
2 cans stewed tomatoes (1qt total)

Brown the hamburger in a skillet. Add in celery and carrots and sauté until mostly soft. (The softer they are, the shorter time you can cook in the crock pot, if you want to cook it all day on low then you don’t need to soften as much.) Combine remaining ingredients in the crock pot and add in meat and veggies mixture. Cook on high for 2 to 4 hours or until veggies reach desired tenderness.

This makes a very large batch of soup so if you are only cooking for a few people or a weeknight dinner I would half it. Can be served with bread, tortilla chips, shredded cheese, sour cream, avocados, etc.

Soft and Chewy Treat

Snickerdoodles

(Pepperidge Farm Copycat)

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Cookie dough:

1 cup butter, melted (2 sticks)

1 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup dark brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

½ tsp cream of tartar

½ tsp salt

Topping:

4 Tlb sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Use an electric mixer on med speed to combine butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla in a medium bowl until smooth.

3. In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt.

4. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet stuff using the electric mixer on med/low speed until dough is smooth.

5. Mix topping ingredients together in a small bowl.

6. Measure one heaping tablespoon of the dough and roll it into a ball with your hands.

7. Press half of the cookie dough ball into the cinnamon/sugar. Place the ball, sugared-side-up, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 16 minutes or until cookies just begin to turn light brown. Be careful not to bake the cookies too long or they won’t be soft like the originals

Yield: 32 cookies

Store cookies in an airtight container.