Chicken Tortilla Soup

It has been raining for the past several days so I thought soup sounded yummy. I always have the ingredients for this soup so this is what we had for dinner today. I got the original recipe from Anjalique (a friend from Henderson). I love friends that share their recipes!!! Here it is with my twist... Chicken Tortilla Soup

4 Chicken Breasts, cooked & chopped
4 Cans Chicken Broth
1 Can Corn, drained
1 Can of Kidney Beans
1 Can of Great Northern (white) beans
1 Can Diced Tomatoes
1/2 C Salsa
1/2 Onion, sauteed or a small amount of dried onion
a few Garlic Cloves, minced - I usually forget this item...
Tortilla Chips
Shredded Monterrey Cheese
Sour Cream & Olives for garnish

Bring all ingredients to a boil & simmer - 20 minutes should be fine, but I think the longer the better. This is also just as good as leftovers. Place tortilla chips & shredded cheese in the bottom of a bowl & ladle soup over. Enjoy!

***Note to self - Ryan doesn't like the Kidney beans (next time just use white beans) & Anna pretty much just doesn't like this soup at all. Go figure! A good recipe to half - that will be interesting, but I'll try it next time.

Chocolate Reese's Cake Mix Cookies

I don't know why I have had an aversion to cake mix cookies, but I have. I have seen recipes like this many times before but I've never had the desire to try any of them. Humm...I wonder why... Anyway, now I have a strong desire to make these cookies all the time!!! I love them!!! They are so yummy & oh so easy!

1 box Duncan Hines Devils Food Cake Mix

2 eggs

1/3 C oil

1/8 to 1/4 C water

1 10 oz package Reese's Peanut Butter Chips

Mix the cake mix, eggs, & oil. Add enough water to make the mixture the consistency of cookie dough --- it needs to be a little sticky or the cookies are dry. Stir in peanut butter chips.

Scoop onto lightly greased cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 10-11 minutes until the cookies are set in the middle.

Makes 30-32 cookies (depends on the amount of water you use).

*Note: You can use whatever cake mix flavor you like & mix in whatever you like but I'm not sure why you'd want to change anything about these beautiful cookies!