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Adopt a Blogger - Ginger Lemon Girl

This is my first "adopt A Blogger" post and I am so excited. And so full. But excited mostly. I chose to adopt Carrie at Ginger Lemon Girl because I saw the Almond Joy Pie and I had to make it. I just had to, it was calling to me. Except that pie was eaten without me taking a picture. Oops. I was going to make another but didn't have a chance due to other baking. So anyway, make it, it is wonderful and is my new favorite. So I also made her Aunt Linda's Amazing Broccoli Puff but the first one looked horribly burned (it didn't taste it though). I got a tiny bit distracted while it was under the broiler. Oops. It was so wonderful though I made it again tonight. YUM!!!! And this time, I took pictures. (yay me). I did not use Annatto because I don't have any. Also the first time I took fresh broccoli and cut it and steamed it while tonight I used frozen that I heated through - to be honest, the frozen worked just as well as the fresh and was much easier. W...

Pizza Soup

Sometimes something wonderful happens when you just throw some things together. It works like magic. And even stranger is when everyone likes it. Even the picky kid who doesn't like anything. That happened to me the other night. We had a 4-H thing to go to and I knew that we probably wouldn't make it home till 8 and we would all be past ready to eat. And - as much as I love Chick-Fil-A - I would rather have chewed my arm off than have to eat another Chick-Fil-A salad. So I looked to see what all I could throw together in the crockpot and then prayed it would be good. It was. It was so good that it was gone before I thought to get a picture (bad blogger). Now you can try it. Pizza Soup As with all soups, if you don't like something, leave it out. If it is your favorite, then add some more. 1 cup of browned hamburger meat 1 onion chopped and browned 1 or 2 bell peppers chopped (and browned if you don't want them crunchy) 4 ounces Hormel peppero...