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Easy Faux Seafood Salad: Pinterventures, 07.2020

Dearest eaters and readers, thank you for joining me for today’s Tasty Tuesday’s post where I’m making easy faux seafood salad.  I am joining Erlene at My Pinterventures for this month’s Pinterest Challenge and blog hop.  I haven’t joined up with Erlene since this post in January.  Glad to be back it again! The purpose […]

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Soup-Chili-Stew Recipe Swap & Blog Hop

Sweet Eaters and Readers, Welcome to Tasty Tuesday and the second annual soup-chili-stew recipe swap and blog hop!  Try saying that with your mouth full. Whether you’re hungry or just like to eat, you’ve come to the right spot!  More than a baker’s dozen-worth of bloggers have gathered together to share our favorite fall soup-chili-stew […]

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Tasty Tuesday: Crock Pot Shrimp Chow-da

Dearest eaters and readers, Welcome to another Tasty Tuesday.  It’s been awhile since I brought you something from my kitchen.  Time to rectify that!  As I said in February, when I shared my chicken cordon bleu soup, someday, I’m going to share a recipe for something other than soup.  But not today!!  Yup, sharing another […]

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Tasty Tuesday: Chicken Cordon Bleu Soup

  Dearest eaters and readers, Welcome to another Tasty Tuesday.  Someday, I am going to share a recipe for something other than soup.  But not today!!  Yup, sharing another soup recipe, this time for chicken cordon bleu in a bowl!!  And in a bread bowl, at that.  Or in a ceramic bowl for the low-carb […]

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Tasty Tuesday, 01.2019: Pinspired Green Enchilada Chicken Soup

Hello dear eaters and readers! Welcome to the first Tasty Tuesday of 2019.  And the first Pinterest Challenge blog hop, which I may or may not have signed up to participate in.  I knew I was going out of town again so may not have signed up, but here I am, still at home.  Whadaya […]

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Cookie Swap Blog Hop, 11.2018

Happy Veteran’s Day, friends! Hope you will join me in taking a few minutes today to think of all we owe to those who have protected our country’s freedoms by serving in the military.  My dad was in the 82nd Airborne shortly after World War II and my Prince Charming was in the Army for […]

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