This past week was Thanksgiving which involved a lot of traveling to see friends and family. It’s nice to be back home where my family and I can enjoy a home-cooked meal. Eating other people’s home-cooked meals is nice but we have mostly been dining out. Not everyone we visited this past weekend cooked a […]
Tag: slow cooker
Reliving 1950’s Cooking With Slow Cooker Pot Roast
When it comes to cooking and classic recipes, pot roast is at the top of the list considering the food movement that occurred during the 1950’s. I can’t speak for the rest of the world but the 1950’s were an interesting time for American cooking and culture. World War 2 ended 5 years prior (1945) the […]
The Flavor Enhancing Quality Of Guinness In Beef Stew Is Unbelievable
I can confidently say I have eaten hundreds of stews in my lifetime. You could say I have tasted the rainbow when it comes to stews. The list covers stews from Latin America all the way to stews hailing from Africa and in between. Some of these stews even varied in spices, vegetables, and protein. Some […]
Tender, Creamy And Full Of Flavor Slow Cooker Thai Curry
There must a slow cooker recipe for just about every kind of meat, and dessert these days. Riding on the wave of popularity and convenience of slow cookers we wanted to find some of the more common dishes people make during the week and we found one you will really love. Thai coconut curry is […]
The Amazing Outcome Of Using 7-up When Braising Chicken
It’s not often you have the brilliant idea of cooking with soda. Most people do their absolute best to avoid the carbonated sugary drink at all cost. We try our very best until you realize it’s the weekend and you just pounded 2 rum and cokes. Diet and week effort over! Soda may not be the […]
Perfectly Moist, Slow Cooker Barbecued Pulled Pork
It doesn’t matter what part of the country you are from or if spell it BBQ or barbecue. One thing is for certain, there is nothing worst than dry overly cooked barbecued pulled pork. When it comes to shredded meats there is a fine line you need to be careful not to cross. By crossing this […]
You Use The Slow Cooker For Everything, Why Not Potatoes?
Most people use slow cookers’ to make eating a warm meal, simple. There are now thousands if not millions of recipes to cook main meals, desserts and what about a side like these garlic parmesan potatoes? You might as well right? Given you are using your your slow cooker for everything else. You will love […]
Fork Tender Balsamic Shredded Beef
It’s time for another edition of Use…That…. Slow…. Cooker (yep should sound like Wheel of Fortune Intro). This fork tender balsamic shredded beef is easy to make and even better to enjoy the next day or two. Compared to other slow cooker beef recipes I was really surprised by this one due to the combination […]
Crazy Enough To Work: Crockpot Shell Lasagna
We all get super busy and sometimes all you want is a nice warm meal after a long day at work. Hectic lifestyles is the reason why crock pots aka slow cookers were invented. I came across this wild recipe which in my opinion earns huge bonus points for creativity. The Corey from Family Fresh […]
Slow Cooker Bacon Cauliflower Choweder
I know there are several people who are hell bent on eating only seasonal food. I get it, however! Eating seasonally is damn hard. Personally I feel it gets even harder once you have children so from time to time its nice to eat things that are not following a season. It’s cool don’t worry […]
Crock Pot Hawaiian Sticky Chicken
The weekend is around the corner which is a perfect time to knock out some meal prep. So what is meal prep? Meal prep is fancy talk used in the fitness community to describe a day in which several meals are prepared, packaged, stored to be consumed during the week. Today’s Hawaiian sticky chicken is […]