Easy Taco Soup by Ashleigh Belliston

Ingredients
1 can (about 14 oz) diced tomatoes
1 can (about 14 oz) low-sodium chicken or beef broth
2 cans (about 14 oz) black beans, kidney bean, or pinto beans
1 can (about 14 oz) corn
1 packet dry taco seasoning
1/2 pound ground beef, cooked (optional)

Mix all ingredients together in medium to large saucepan. Cook over medium heat until heated through. Serve with baked tortilla chips.

Baked Tortilla Chips

4-5 corn tortillas (makes 32-40 chips)

Use a pizza cutter to cut tortilla into 8 wedges. Place wedges on an ungreased baking sheet, bake at 400 degrees for 5-10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool before eating. (serves 4)

Tortilla Lime Soup (Cafe Rio Soup) by Ashleigh Belliston

Ingredients:
12-15 cups chicken stock (and 12-15 cups of water)
2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 onion diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Crushed red pepper (1/2 tsp)

Put these ingredients in crock pot and cook for at least 6 hours. At this point, you may have to strain chicken stock to clarify it. (Or you can add cooked chicken at the end if preferred.) When done or get home at night, boil diced carrots and celery in 2 -3 cups chicken stock, until tender, about 8 minutes. Then dump stock, carrot, celery into crock pot.

Then add the following:
Can of rinsed black beans
Juice from 3 limes.
Chopped jalapeno pepper (1/2 of small one with seeds removed)

Let cook for few minutes after adding lime juice, beans and jalapeno pepper (10 min).

Pour soup into individual bowls and then garnish with the following:
Chopped green onion
Chopped cilantro
Diced tomatoes
Wedge of lime
Avocados
Jack Cheese
Crispy fried corn tortilla strips (get small corn tortillas, cut into strips, deep fry in pan, add salt)

Enjoy!

Baked Ziti by Ashleigh Belliston

Find a deep pan. The use-once tinfoil roast pan works great.

Ingredients:
Red sauce, 2-3 bottles heated up
1 lb. Hamburger
1 Onion
3 garlic cloves
Salt n pepper
White sauce – use half as much as red sauce.
Rigatoni pasta – 2 packages
Parmesan cheese – 1 bag of real, grated parmesan cheese
Mozzarella cheese – Round balls imported from Italy. Cube. (small)

Cook pasta for half time the packet says. Put tsp of olive oil in so it’s not sticky. Brown hamburger in pan with onion, garlic and salt n pepper. Add hamburger to red sauce. Set up assembly line. Red sauce first, white sauce (half as much as red), pasta, chunks of cheese, red sauce, white, pasta, chunks of cheese, etc. As many layers as it allows. Put parmesan cheese on top. Cover completely.

Bake for 30-40 minutes @ 350. Do not cover. Cheese to be melted and brown. Enjoy!!

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