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Sausage, White Bean, and Spinach Gumbo Soup

 So soup is one of my favorite family meals.  Whole meal in one pot? Yes please!  We eat it year-round because it's easy and hearty and delicious.  Even during the peak of summer heat you can bet I'll be cooking soup at least once a week (sooo thankful for AC!).  This particular soup recipe I have cooked a few times, and while I've tried it with a variety of different ingredients, I think I hit on the perfect  combination this last time.  Everyone was raving about it (except my husband, who happens to be trying an all-meat diet currently and had to pass on the soup for a giant steak; yes, he's crazy), and after I finished I was looking forward to eating more of it the next day for lunch (and it did not disappoint the second time either).  Ya'll should give it a try for sure... Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 1 13 oz. package smoked andouille sausage, thinly sliced 4-5 cloves garlic, chopped 1 yellow onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 3 medium...

Almond Sugar Cookie Bars

 Sugar cookies--so buttery and sugary and...well, just super yum.  But who has time for all the work of making sugar cookies?  The dough, the refrigerating, the rolling, cutting, frosting, and decorating....  Blah! Not me!  These bars are our go-to when we need sugar cookies for anything.  And they are a crowd pleaser, let me tell you!  I've had people ask me to make them for wedding receptions.  They are sooo good and sooooooo much easier than making individual sugar cookies.  I don't even remember the last time I made actual sugar cookies because there's really no point anymore when we all love the bars and I love how easy they are.   This recipe is originally from Our Best Bites .  They have great recipes there.  I have tweaked this recipe to my preferences though.   Cookie Ingredients : 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1/2 Tbs. almond extract 3 cups flour, lightly spooned  ...