Winter soup/8 recipes

Delicious homemade tomato soup. Not only will your kids love it, you’ll love that it doesn’t have the added sodium of many canned varieties of tomato soup. Add a fistful of crusty Italian bread to dip and watch it disappear!

Slow-cooked beef patties in a creamy mushroom and onion gravy. Real comfort food.

YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!! Forget buying canned cream of chicken soup, this recipes is soooo much better.

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It's the season of Swiss chard and kale. We got lots of these fresh leafy greens from our CSA farm, and I was trying to come out an idea to use them up, surfing the internet, found a recipe in New York Times, it's a chard and feta phyllo tart. Definitely got the inspiration, I used both chard and kale, instead of feta, I used cheddar; and I sauteed some fresh mushrooms and added some toasted pine nuts, which worked very well. Also, I used a pie plate instead of a tart pan, and it was a great success, absolutely flavorful and delicious. The phyllo crust came out flaky and crispy. Have definitely become one of my signature recipes :)

A clean tasting soup that is packed with protein rich beans.

My mother's famous hash brown potato casserole. Easy to make one dish casserole that creamy and delicious comfort food.

This casserole was scrumptious, the butternut squash and the sweet potatoes turned out soft, sweet and full of flavor; burglar gave the meaty texture and soaked all the delicious flavor; tomato, red wine and stock made a delicious base for this casserole.

Make your pasta dishes seem authentic with this spaghetti sauce made of Italian sausage, tomatoes and a variety of spices.

These cherry cream cheese bars were divine. The cream cheese added the rich creaminess; I made my own cherry pie filling, which was packed with cherry flavour and not super sweet, also did a few changes to make these bars healthier (see the linked recipe below) but still decadent.

Bev's Green Bean Casserole recipe

Instead of frozen veggies we used fresh broccoli and cauliflower and steamed them part way. We also used swiss cheese instead of cheddar and the results were surprisingly good.

Easy no-fuss Slow cooker (Crockpot) potatoes, cheese and ham.

A very tasty way to cook squash, and it's also a cozy dish in a cold winter day. Packed with nutrients, feel free to use other similar squash to replace butternut.