Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup

All of you slow cooker fans are going to love this recipe.

It's one of those dump, set, and 6 hours later dinner is ready recipes! You really can't get easier than this and it's pretty minimal on the ingredients side. It's similar to Holly's Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken, which is a popular recipe around these parts...and by these parts I mean with KMW readers. 

I really don't have much more to say about this, just an easy and flavorful recipe that is perfect for the busy cook! The directions portion of the recipe is 2 sentences, enough said.

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Smoked Salmon Chowder

As promised in my Fried Leek post, the recipe for the Smoked Salmon Chowder we had on Christmas Eve. The chowder alone made it a Christmas Eve to remember, and this may have to become our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. This was a super easy recipe, and it will definitely get made on other nights of the year. You know how we loved smoked salmon in our house, and this was absolutely delicious. I had to restrain Mr. KMW from helping himself to a fifth bowl.

It was a creamy base with tomato flavor, making it a New England type of chowder, with a touch of Manhattan. And I, of course, topped it with Fried Leeks, a great garnish for any soup.

Grab yourself some smoked salmon and make this chowder, you will have no regrets!

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Roasted Tomato Basil Soup, French Onion Style

You guys are going to love me for this recipe, I'm still having dreams about it. I took a simple Tomato Basil Soup and melted cheese on top so it got on bubbly and browned, we all know that's the best part of French Onion Soup!

This was another inspiration of my new Blendtec. Blending up vegetable soups in the fall is one of my go to dinner options. See my Butternut Squash & Shallot Soup, Broccoli and Cheese Soup, Moroccan Carrrot Soup and my more recent Butternut Squash and Pear Soup. As you can tell, I also love Butternut Squash in the fall...or anytime of year for that matter. 

When making these soups, I usually try to

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Roasted Butternut Squash & Pear Soup

One of my coworkers brought in a TON of pears and apples from his parents farm in Eastern Washington on Friday...needless to say I've been baking and cooking with them all weekend. So that's your warning, you are going to see a streak of apple and pear recipes. 

Now onto this soup, it cooled down today so I was in the mood for soup and decided to make a spin on my Butternut Squash & Shallot Soup. This time I roasted some pears and onions along with the squash and added in some fun garnishes; pepitas, gorgonzola crumbles and fried sage. That's right, fried sage.

The result, Mr. KMW taking a bite and accusing me of being insane because the soup was so amazing. Yup, my carnivorous husband loved this vegetable and fruit soup. He also declared

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Moroccan Carrot Soup

I totally thought I was on the ball last week, placing my Amazon Fresh order on Sunday night for the week's groceries. I had my dinners planned out and I was really looking forward to making this Moroccan Carrot Soup. Then when I was going to bed, I realized I forgot to include carrots in my grocery order. Kind of a key ingredient in when Monday nights dinner is carrot soup...ooops!

Since I'm posting this you know I got my hands on some carrots and boy did this soup really hit the spot! I definitely wish I would have doubled the batch. Even Mr. KMW who was totally skeptical of Carrot soup had 3 bowls...hence me wishing I doubled the batch. I was pretty sad when

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