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Chicken Tortilla Soup

January 31, 2023 By Talya Tate Boerner

Chicken Tortilla Soup

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This is my favorite chicken tortilla soup recipe! I’m not exaggerating when I say it is super easy to make. Chicken tortilla soup is yummy no matter the season, but on a cold winter day it will truly warm your insides.

As I write this, sleet is steadily falling; the ground and streets in northwest Arkansas are blanketed in at least an inch of frozen precipitation. (Second week in a row of winter weather for us.) If I could make a big pot of this soup for our city employees who have been working so hard to clear streets, I would!Continue Reading

Lucy and Annabelle go to Taqueria Leo’s

December 4, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

Lucy and Annabelle go to Taqueria Leo's

Sometimes a girl needs authentic Mexican food. Especially girls from Texas. Girls like Lucy and Annabelle. They’re native Texans, you know. Taqueria Leo’s has mad street taco fare, just like the street tacos in East Dallas.

Oh yeah. Continue Reading


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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