Mexican style simmered beans with chorizo sausage and bacon! Frijoles charros, aka charro beans, is a super simple dish where dried beans are slowly simmered with bacon, chorizo sausage, chillies, tomatoes and seasonings. The recipe is as easy as soaking beans overnight, cooking bacon, sausage, onions, chilies, garlic, and cumin, adding the beans, broth, and...

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A tasty sausage and bean soup with plenty of veggies and parmesan cheese! This is a super easy and hearty soup with sausage and beans along with plenty of veggies. The soup starts out by cooking Italian style sausage before adding onion, carrot, and celery. Beans and potatoes make it hearty! Cream and parmesan make...

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All of the flavours of a supreme meat lovers pizza, with bacon, sausage, pepperoni, onion, peppers and mushrooms, in soup form! Pizza is one of my all time favourite foods and the flavours work really well in soup form! This recipe is basically a tomato based soup with pasta, cheese, and your favourite pizza toppings!...

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Layers of rice, a tasty beef and tomato sauce, and cheese baked until the sides are bubbling and the cheese is melted, golden brown and oh so good! Lasagna, a dish with layers of pasta, meat sauce and cheese, is one of my all time favourite meals and this dish replaces the layers of pasta...

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A one-pan pasta with kielbasa sausage in a creamy and cheesy sauce! I am a fan of kielbasa (smoked) sausage and this pasta is a quick and easy way to enjoy some! The recipe is as easy as frying the sausage, cooking an onion and bell pepper before adding tomatoes, broth and pasta and simmering...

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All of the flavours of a turkey dinner stuffing/dressing in a super moist savoury bread pudding with sausage and cheese! Stuffing (or dressing) is one of my favourite parts of a Thanksgiving meal and this recipe is inspired by combining the flavours of stuffing in bread pudding form! Stuffing and bread pudding are very similar,...

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A fall themed creamy chowder with butternut squash, Italian turkey sausage and corn with white cheddar melted into the broth! This is a pretty simple chowder recipe with a fall theme including butternut squash, Italian turkey sausage, and sage. Other than that, this is a pretty simple chowder with a reamy both and corn. I...

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A creamy chowder with kielbasa sausage and corn! This simple soup has a creamy, thickened, broth with plenty of vegetables, and tasty kielbasa sausage! The recipe takes some time but it’s super easy! Everything starts out by cooking the bacon, followed by cooking the kielbasa in the bacon grease. Onions, carrots, and celery are up...

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All of the flavours of a grinder sandwich in a creamy pasta salad! A grinder sandwich is a sandwich filled with Italian cold cuts, such as pepperoni and salami, provolone cheese, tomato, onion, pepperoncini peppers, and lettuce tossed in a tasty dressing. This recipe is for a pasta salad with all of the same ingredients!...

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All of the flavours of lasagna in a warm, comforting and tasty soup! Winter is the time for soups and I have been certainly making a lot of them lately! Lasagna has to be one of my all time favourite meals and when I first came across the idea for a lasagna soup I was...

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