Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook

Homey Turkey Cabbage Soup
Budget-Friendly Meals Chicken / Poultry Light and Healthy One-Pot Meals Soup

Homey Turkey Cabbage Soup

Eating Homey Turkey Cabbage Soup feels like eating in Grandma’s kitchen. It makes you feel warm and cozy all over while delivering on flavor. With turkey, cabbage, and other vegetables, it’s a one-pot meal that is also nutritious. This soup recipe uses ground turkey, but leftover turkey works too! This turkey and cabbage evokes the nostalgia of eating at Grandma’s house. It’s cozy and comforting …

Loaded Vegetable Minestrone Soup
Budget-Friendly Meals Light and Healthy Main Dish Pasta Soup

Loaded Vegetable Minestrone Soup

For a healthy and balanced meal, try this Loaded Vegetable Minestrone Soup. It has pasta and beans and is packed with vegetables in a tomato-y broth. The broth consists of a secret ingredient that adds great flavor as well as a nutritional boost. This vegetarian soup is just as filling as it is comforting! This soup will warm you from the inside out and make …

Rotisserie Chicken Pozole
Chicken / Poultry Main Dish One-Pot Meals Soup

Rotisserie Chicken Pozole

Rotisserie Chicken Pozole is a shortcut version of a Mexican hominy and chicken soup. It’s served with an array of topping options for a comforting meal, Mexican style. Pozole is a soup and a Mexican comfort food that’s consumed for everyday meals as well as for celebrations. My first experience with it was over twenty years ago when my sister made pork pozole. She simmered …

Chicken Butternut Dumplings
Budget-Friendly Meals Chicken / Poultry Main Dish One-Pot Meals Pasta

Chicken Butternut and Dumplings

Get a taste of fall comfort with this easy one-pot Chicken Butternut and Dumplings. It has a creamy broth, tender shredded chicken breast, sweet butternut squash, herbaceous sage, and pillowy soft dumplings. Serve alone or with biscuits to amp up the comfort level even more!  Pair this dish with my Garlic and Herbs Boursin Biscuits for a cozy home-cooked dinner. We recently embarked on a home …

Chicken Vegetable and Rice Soup
Budget-Friendly Meals Chicken / Poultry Main Dish Rice / Grain Soup

Chicken Vegetable and Rice Soup

Sautéing the chicken first makes this Chicken Vegetable and Rice Soup extra flavorful. It is nutritious and packed with vegetables. And it’s a soup that hits the spot any time of the year. Update: This post was originally published in 2020. Most of the original content is below, but it has been updated with an added Recipe Highlight section and additional images. Minor changes have …

Easy Salmon Leek Chowder
Fish / Seafood Main Dish One-Pot Meals Soup

Easy Salmon Leek Chowder

This Easy Salmon Leek Chowder has chunks of salmon, potatoes, and tender leeks in a deliciously creamy chowder. Fresh tarragon infuses a delicate anise-like flavor, which compliments the richness of the base. This soup is perfect as a starter or satisfying as a meal. Hey there cyber friends! I don’t make a habit of publicly announcing when I won’t be home…because there are a few …

Quick Sausage Kale and Gnocchi Stew
Budget-Friendly Meals One-Pot Meals Pork Soup

Quick Sausage Kale and Gnocchi Stew

Pan-seared Italian sausage chunks, tender gnocchi, and nutrition-packed kale make this stew hearty and comforting. This one-pot meal takes under 30 minutes to cook and is perfect for a weeknight dinner. Happy New Year!!! I hope you all had a great start to 2019! My husband and I spent it at home with an intimate party of five. We ate lots, drank some, watched a …

Slow Cooker Chicken Rice Vermicelli Soup
Asian Inspired Budget-Friendly Meals Chicken / Poultry Light and Healthy Main Dish One-Pot Meals Rice / Grain Slow Cooked Soup

Slow Cooker Chicken Rice Vermicelli Soup

This Slow Cooker Chicken Rice Vermicelli Soup might look simple, but it is comforting and packed with flavor. It’s the perfect soup to warm your body and feed your soul during the wintery cold and flu season.  Don’t you hate it when you order chicken soup and there’s hardly any chicken? Remember that commercial years and years ago with the slogan “Where’s the beef?” Well, that’s …