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Recipe – Mexican Chicken Soup

First Thoughts – Another recipe from the Slow Cooker cookbooks from mom. This one was on the same page as one of the potato soup recipes, and it looked tasty. I’m a fan of Chicken Tortilla Soup, and this looked similar, so I made it last Friday.

Recipe Alterations – The recipe called for a pound and a half of chicken, but I only used one pound, as my chicken is in pound packages. It also called for 10 ounces of frozen corn, but I used a 16 ounce bag.

Possible Changes – None, really. Maybe more black beans? The smaller amount of chicken didn’t really hurt it, so I’d probably keep it at one pound of chicken. Going from 10 ounces to 16 ounces of corn made it very full of corn, though, so I might try a smaller bag of corn, and a slightly larger amount of beans.

Would I Eat it Again? Most definitely. It was tasty with sour cream and cheese sprinkled on top. We also ate it with some blue corn tortilla chips crushed on top; very tasty.

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Recipe – Slow-Cooked Potato Soup

First Thoughts – Browsing one of the Slow Cooker cookbooks I got from my mom for Christmas, I happened upon quite a few Potato Soup recipes. I figured, why not? Crock Pot cooking is the way to go. Plus this recipe has Velveeta, sour cream and ham!

Recipe Alterations – Maybe not so much of an alteration, but for the potatoes I used Yukon Gold rather than Russet or Idaho. I think they were quite tasty. We also didn’t really measure the ham or onion – just chopped up the whole thing and tossed it in.

Possible Changes – Only thing I would change really is maybe add some carrots, and chop the ham up a bit smaller. We had no leftover ham, so I just bought a hamsteak and chopped that up. I’m also thinking that maybe some form of sausage could be terribly tasty, as well.

Would I Eat it Again? I really liked this recipe, but apparently Matt prefers the other potato soup recipe I tried. The other recipe also had less work – I didn’t need to mash half of the potatoes before putting them in the crock pot. Matt liked the ham in this one, but I could just as easily add ham to the other recipe. I liked the Velveeta and sour cream in this one, but maybe I can just modify the other recipe a bit. So this recipe isn’t bad – I’d eat it again, and it gave me some ideas for future potato soup recipes.

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