One Pot Cauliflower Chowder

 This one pot soup recipe is slow cooked on the stove for under an hour - you get the best of both worlds, an easy soup that doesn't take too long to make but tastes like you've had it simmering all day!

I'm sure at this point most of my chowders are very similar recipes, but nonetheless, here is another cauliflower chowder recipe. You could omit the bacon or use vegan bacon (that's a thing, I think?) and use vegetable broth for a completely meatless, vegetarian-friendly soup. I enjoy that this recipe is not exactly a quick recipe, but is not a slow cooker, crockpot recipe either.

One Pot Thai Chicken Noodle Soup

Classic comfort food made with Thai ingredients that will blow your mind!

2017 was the year we went a little out of our comfort zone with food. I like to think we tried quite a few new things and tried new cuisines. This Thai Chicken Noodle Soup has some ingredients that we really typically wouldn't eat together or think to put in a soup. I was unsure how the combination of different flavors would work together. I personally was really excited to use some Thai basil that I had dried from my AeroGarden and it really tied the whole thing together. As a child who hated chicken noodle soup, it's crazy how many different chicken noodle soups I now eat! This soup was wonderful. All those flavors went together perfectly. Nothing was overpowering. Just loved it so much :)

Loaded Cauliflower Casserole #SundaySupper

A healthier version of a loaded baked potato, this cauliflower casserole is a worthy substitute!

Today's Sunday Supper Movement event is CREATIVE CAULIFLOWER RECIPES and I found this loaded casserole recipe to be so creative. It doesn't taste exactly like a loaded baked potato, but it's very close and it kind of blew my mind. I was nervous serving it up because of the sour cream, but my husband, a self-proclaimed sour cream hater, had seconds and possibly thirds. This casserole just disappeared!

I feel like we, as a family, never eat cauliflower, even though we all really like it. I'm looking forward to all of the recipes from my fellow blogging pals. I still have yet to make a cauliflower pizza crust and I really want to. I'm secretly hoping there is a pizza crust recipe in the roundup since I love to make recipes from my friends' blogs :)

Loaded Cheeseburger Potato Soup

 This combination of cheeseburger and loaded baked potato makes for the best kind of soup!

There is nothing more fitting than posting a soup recipe on our designated soup night. Tonight we're having minestrone, but this potato soup is absolutely wonderful. The original recipe called for pureeing the potatoes and cauliflower, but I honestly dread pulling out my blender for soups. It's just laziness. I stopped pulling out the blender for broccoli cheddar soup years ago. I like all the little pieces and chunks of veggies, so it doesn't bother me. But if you would like to, puree the cauliflower with 1 cup of the chicken broth and then add potatoes and puree until smooth. Add a little more broth, as needed. Then just add them as you would with step 5 below :) I didn't drain off the grease after cooking the turkey, but that is definitely an option if you don't want any grease making it into the final product!

Jalapeno Popper Soup

This spicy comfort meal has peppers galore with corn, cauliflower, and tons of cheese!

Because we have a weekly soup night, my obsessive hoarding of recipes sometimes focuses on new soup recipes. Not that I don't already have plenty of soup "keepers" already, but I just love trying new recipes. So I'm still pinning new ones and finding new ones in my Food Network magazines to try. I was pumped to try this one out. We don't eat cauliflower a lot - not because we don't like it, but because it doesn't really show up in many recipes. I was happy that there was cauliflower AND corn in this soup and it turned out so well. It's one of my all-time favorite soups. It also looked so pretty in my soup mug!

And soup mugs are quickly becoming my new coffee mugs. I have a billion coffee mugs and can't help but buy new ones when I see cute ones. Soup mugs are dangerous too. When I was little, my family had ones that were really similar to the style of the ones my Jalapeno Popper Soup is in, but they had recipes for onion soup, mushroom soup, chicken soup, and tomato soup. We had four and I always snatched up the onion soup one because I didn't like the other three soups...although I had never had onion soup. I really just loved the way the onions looked on it. I tried to find them, but couldn't and I ended up buying four mugs that looked similar to that style. Very retro, vintage looking. Then I ended up caving on these Crockpot brand huge soup bowls. They are the BEST. I have six of them. Don't fall down the Amazon soup bowl hole...don't do it...now I want these soup bowls that just say soup on them and these that have a slot on the side for crackers. I need them in my life! It's honestly such a good thing that I'm not an impulse shopper. Anyways, whether you have bowls just for soup or not, this soup is fantastic!

Bacon Cheesy Cauliflower Chowder #SecretRecipeClub

It’s time again for Secret Recipe Club! What is Secret Recipe Club, you ask? It’s a club of food bloggers split into 4 groups that post on separate Mondays in the month. Each blogger is assigned a blog secretly and they stalk that blog to find a recipe or two to make. Once made, the recipe is photographed and a blog post is made to showcase the recipe and blog on the designated Monday! It’s a really fun way to find new blogs, try new foods, and share a little love to a blogger. For more information, go here.

This past month has been absolutely insane for us and this last weekend in particular has definitely been the busiest. I’m typing this from our first home – our new home – which we are in the process of unpacking and settling into. But I’m proud to say that I made two recipes from my assigned blog, Flying on Jess Fuel. I’m sharing one of the two today for reveal day, but I loved both of them and will eventually get around to sharing the Cinnamon Pecan Banana Pancakes at some point.

Jess is a Navy wife and also married to a Nick - both of whom love food and a good homebrew - which they definitely have in common with me and my Nick (except for Army instead of Navy). I have been waiting as patiently as possible and not rigging assignments (which took self control, let me tell you, since I'm the one that does them) to get Jess' blog. I love it! Jess has an incredible collection of recipes and her pictures are gorgeous. I had both a hard and easy time picking a recipe this month. I saved a bunch, but I easily picked my top two and made both. The one I'm sharing today is not the pancake recipe that I linked to above, but Jess' Bacon Cheesy Cauliflower Chowder...which my preggo brain inadvertently turned into soup while editing my picture...but it's chowder. Promise.

It cracks me up that Jess mentioned she is not a carb-hater, but loves veggies - that is me to a tee. I'll eat the junk outta some carbs, but I am a veggie-aholic. Any veggie is my friend. Now that the weather is cooler here in Tennessee, weekly soup night has begun again. I was very excited to try this chowder and was absolutely thrilled with how it turned out. We will definitely be having it again. Everyone (Nick, kids, sister-in-law, and mom-in-law) all loved it and that is a pretty good thing when all of us love a recipe :)

Buffalo Cauliflower

I've seen this recipe everywhere...or it seems like everywhere and I was extremely intrigued by it. I believe I made this accompanying burgers one night and it is just an excellent recipe. The cauliflower just soaks up the buffalo flavor and it really has a nice texture. The beer batter, of course, is unbelievable :) They are definitely addictive...you will sit there and pop them in your mouth, even burning your tongue or the roof of your mouth a few times because they are fresh out of the oven!

Roast Veggie Omelet

Roasted Broccoli & Cauliflower

These were a fantastic, quick side dish! I loved the sweetness of the honey and the little bite of the vinegar.

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What you need:

• 4 cups cauliflower florets
• 4 cups broccoli florets
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. pepper
• 2 tbsp. cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp. honey

Directions:

Combine florets in a large bowl. Toss with oil, salt, and pepper.
Place on an aluminum-foil lined baking sheet.

Roast for 15 minutes at 400*
Combine vinegar and honey in a small bowl.

Remove veggies from oven and drizzle vinegar mixture over veggies.
Roast for 5 more minutes.

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Cheesy Cauliflower Soup

I'm always trying to find new, unique ways to get my kids eating veggies they may not necessarily love already. Cauliflower wasn't too particularly hard to get them to eat because they love broccoli and I told them this was white broccoli. :) The soup was really good and we all happily gobbled it up. You really can't go wrong with adding bacon either!

I found this recipe on Lynn's Kitchen Adventures. It's a blog I haven't been following for too long. I'd say less than a year. I'm still exploring and finding new things to make. Lynn has such a great site set up, plus a gluten-free section. It's easy on the eyes and easy to navigate around it :) I've made Blueberry Baked Oatmeal off her site and I am looking forward to making her Creamy Coconut Cake, Homemade Smoothie Mix, and One Pot Spaghetti!


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Recipe from Lynn's Kitchen Adventures

What you need:

• 5 cups cauliflower
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 1 1/2 cups half and half
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp. flour
• 2 to 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• bacon, cooked and chopped (optional)

Directions:

Steam cauliflower until tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Chop finely.
In a large saucepan, combine broth and half and half.

Whisk in flour slowly. Cook over medium high heat until it thickens, stirring constantly.

Add cauliflower and reduce to medium low. Cook for 5 more minutes.

Add cheese and stir until melted.

Serve topped with bacon. 

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Easy Chicken & Biscuits

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