Cheeseburger Soup

This is a recipe that is served at our church on Wednesday night meals. I just love the taste of this soup! It's definitely a comfort food!

Cheeseburger Soup

1 med onion

3 cloves garlic ( or 1 tsp chopped)

1 lb lean ground beef 

1 lb potatoes, washed and cut into small pieces

4 large carrots, peeled and cut into small pieces

32 oz of reduced sodium beef broth 

1/4 c ketchup

2 tbsp mustard

1 tsp chipotle or chilli powder

Place a small amount of butter in pan and saute onions and garlic until almost caramelized. Add ground beef and brown. Strain meat.

In crock pot, pour beef broth, then add meat and onion mixture. Add potatoes and carrots, ketchup, mustard, and pepper. Cook for 4.5-5 hours on high.

For cheese sauce:

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp flour 

1 1/2 c milk

2 c shredded cheese

Melt butter in saucepan. Add flour and wisk till mixed. Slowly add milk, wisk until thick. Melt in cheese and add to soup. Cook one more hour.

Serve. Enjoy!

Peach Cream Pie

My husband's family has an annual family reunion which consists of about 150 people who turn out for this event. Roger's grandpa was a sibling to 13 other kids, so you can image how much this family has grown over the years.

For this occasion, I made a pie recipe that always makes me think of my own grandmother as she made this often for Sunday dinners.

Peach Cream Pie

1/4 c sugar
1/4 c brown sugar
2Tbsp flour
1 can peaches
1 egg
1 cup whipping cream
dash of cinnamon
1 unbaked pie crust

Again, I start with an oil pastry. For that recipe, click here. Set aside and preheat oven to 350° 

I start by mixing the both kinds of sugars with the flour with a wire wisk. I then add the egg and mix well. Add the cream and mix lightly.


Drain the peaches (very important) and place in the pie shell.

 Pour the cream over the top and sprinkle with Cinnamon.
 Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until center does not move when wiggled.
 

Easley Winery- Indianapolios- Indiana-Review

We love traveling to find good wine. A good wine will without a doubt compliment any meal and we found our favorite Winery yet, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Easley Winery

 

This is what some might call a "hole in the wall" kind of place. Not very easy to locate, in fact, we needed our GPS just to navigate to this tiny establishment. Once we got there, we were delightfully surprised at what we found.

Easley has won numerous awards for their wines, and my favorite was the Sweet Red Barrel wine. I am more partial to the full bodied sweet reds over the dry or smoky reds and whites, and absolutely loved this one. My favorite so far!

 One cannot travel to Indy without appreciating all the spectacular architecture of the city.

Enjoy....