A FEW WEEKS BACK, I wrote a post here about my efforts to become part of what I affectionately think of as Crock Pot Nation–all those working sisters (and, to be fair, I’m sure some guys, too) who have embraced the homely slow cooker as a means of serving (healthy, homemade) dinner promptly without blowing a gasket. Apparently, I’m not alone, judging by the number of (excellent) responses I got, ranging from timesaving tips to recipes to rants. The popularity of slow cooking sent me, where else, back to Google, to see if there were any slow-cooker recipes that sisters seemed particularly eager to share, and lo and behold, I found a favorite: tortilla soup.
Inspired by two recipes I found at this terrific sister cooking blog, and this other terrific sister cooking blog, I concocted my own version, which was happily devoured by (almost) everyone in my family. (There is no accounting for 7-year-old taste, but apparently, other children will eat it, because tortilla soup also made the 2008 MomFaves top 10 mom-favorite recipes list.) Do you make this Mexican-American classic? How? Tell your sisters, please, because one of the rules of sisterhood is that we share our best recipes.
(P.S. That silly clip? It’s from a movie I helped to produce, in my old life. Have you seen Tortilla Soup? How about the other movies in our sister flicks master list? Check ‘em out, and let us know what you think. Laughter doesn’t have to be confined to the kitchen, after all.)
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