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    Soups Stews Chili

    Hearty and easy, these Southern shortcut soups, stews, and chili recipes bring bold flavor to the table without spending all day in the kitchen.

    • A blue and white bowl with crock pot ham and cabbage and a fork resting on the side.
      Crock Pot Cabbage and Ham
    • Collard Greens and Navy Beans are cooked in a fraction of the typical time when cooked in the Instant Pot. Served in a white bowl on a blue and white striped placemat
      Instant Pot Collard Greens and Navy Beans
    • White bow of venison chili topped with cheese on a green napkin with saltine crackers.
      20 Minute Venison Chili
    • We Southerners love our greens-turnip greens. This dump and stir soup gets you in and out of the kitchen but tastes like you cooked them low and slow all day. Served in a white bowl.
      Shortcut Turnip Green Soup
    • Crab Corn soup in terra cotta bowl on blue checked napkin.
      Shortcut Crab and Corn Soup
    • Four southern slow cooker recipes: apple butter, ham, peas, figs.
      Easy Southern Slow Cooker Recipes
    • Shortcut White Bean Chicken Chili has all the flavor of slow cooked beans and chicken but uses canned beans so you can get dinner on the table quicker!
      Shortcut White Bean and Chicken Chili
    • Super Bowl recipes: pimento cheese, a brownie, boiled peanuts, bacon wrapped tater tots.
      Top 10 Super Bowl Southern Shortcut Recipes
    • White bowl of chicken chili with sour cream and green onion on top. Instant Pot in background.
      Instant Pot White Bean Chicken Chili
    • Gumbo in rimmed white bowl on a white place with slice of cornbread on the side
      Shortcut Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
    • Half of an enamel-coated pot full of vegetable soup
      Easy Hamburger Vegetable Soup (Shortcuts and Variations)
    • tomato soup in white cup on white saucer with saltines
      Shortcut Tomato and Bread Soup
    • Full bowl of potato soup with sour cream, cheese, bacon and green onion on top.
      Loaded Baked Potato Soup

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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