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An easy slow-cooker beef stew with potatoes, carrots, shiitake mushrooms and tomatoes.

Classic French onion soup adapted for the slow cooker and topped with cheesy broiled French bread.

A long-simmered slow-cooker French onion soup with dry sherry and Gruyère-topped baguette toasts.

Slow-simmered split pea soup built around a meaty ham bone, with carrots, celery, garlic and fresh thyme.

A garden vegetable soup formulated for pressure canning, with tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, lima beans, corn, celery and onions.

A simple homemade substitute for cream of mushroom soup made with butter, mushrooms, milk, and light cream cheese.

A quick spinach salad with fresh strawberries, feta, almonds, and a warm roasted strawberry-balsamic dressing.

Chicken legs marinated in Greek yogurt, garlic scapes, lemon, oregano, parsley and grapeseed oil, then baked or grilled.

Twice-baked russet potatoes filled with broccoli, kale, sour cream, butter and cheddar.

A probiotic fruit smoothie with kefir or yogurt, banana, pineapple, orange and peach.