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Slow Cooker All-Day Baked Beans Meal Doesn’t hamburgers and baked beans sound like summer foods? I know it’s the spring season right now, but summer days are coming. If you ask me, I think spring and fall seasons don’t last long enough. I suppose that depends on what part of the USA or world you live in. But in East and Southeast Texas where it gets humid and the California desert where my cabin is, it gets hot too quick for me before summer arrives. I’d be happy for spring or fall days all year long. When the hottest part of summer comes around, cookingRead More →

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Looking for an easy kind of meat to cook in the slow cooker? Try pork chops. Just thaw them out the night before, and put them in the slow cooker the next morning to cook on low all day. Pork chops occasionally go on sale for 99 cents per pound at this one grocery store I shop at. I’ll buy a few packages and freeze them. They are good pan fried, grilled, baked, broiled, and cooked in the slow cooker. One of the pork chop recipes I’ve tried in my Rival Crock-Pot is a quick way to cook in the slow cooker. I first brownRead More →

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Slow Cooker Vegetables Healthy veggies are not the most popular menu item, but we need them. It’s tricky to come up with veggies that the whole family will eat. If you can come up with a veggie your family likes and it’s cooked in the slow cooker, then you’ve accomplished quite a feat. I was craving vegetables one day since I’ve been visiting my daughter and her family and picked up squash and eggplant. The challenge was to get the whole family to like it. When I was a young girl, my mother often cooked squash. I loved it. Yellow summer squash. She didn’t everRead More →

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How do you make slow cooker mini garlic potatoes? If you haven’t used those cute little red, yellow, and purple potatoes yet, you’ll like this easy slow cooker meal. Those mini colorful potatoes are called fingerlings and go great in stews. I grew up mostly with Irish potatoes in stews and pot roasts. But the fingerlings make a nice root vegetable stew. Funny Food Story Speaking of stews, I have a funny memory of my oldest niece and nephew right after a holiday. Mother, my sisters-in-law, the two little ones, and I went on a shopping trip one day. On the way back, my niece,Read More →

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Two-Hour Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Spaghetti Cooking for my monthly challenge, 30 Days of Slow Cooker Recipes, has been fun. I love creating recipes. What has made it interesting is visiting with my daughter and her family and trying out the recipes in her huge seven-quart KitchenAid appliance. Seven quarts of food swallows up the amount my little round slow cooker makes. The other interesting factor of cooking the slow cooker meals at my daughter’s place is I’ve been taking a chance by trying out different recipes for four people. Although we all like several of the same foods, there are differences. A couple ofRead More →

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On my recent visit to see my daughter and her family, I was trying to come up with desserts that aren’t loaded with sugar. My friend over at PattyCakesPantry.com suggested apples and cinnamon cooked on the stove. I thought I’d give them a try in the slow cooker. Now I know a lot of you who work all day are interested in all-day meals cooked in the slow cooker. I can totally understand and will be publishing more recipes for you to cook six hours or more. However, there are some dessert recipes that are easy and pretty quick to make in a slow-cooking appliance.Read More →

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Slow Cooker Pork Chops Pork chops are good however they’re cooked – at least, I think so. I have tried them pan fried, grilled, baked, and slow-cooked. My friend’s mom (I refer to her as Abuela), wasn’t used to cooking in the slow cooker for a long time. But when she caught on to how easy it was, she started cooking everything in it. So I asked what Abuela’s favorite slow-cooker meal is. The answer – pork chops! Mini Organic Carrot with Pork Chops One of the best pork chops I’ve ever had is when some friends in Wisconsin grilled them outside on their grill.Read More →

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A Barbecue Shredded Chicken Recipe from Leftover Chicken When a toddler likes a food you prepared, you know it’s good. On my recent visit to my daughter’s, I was in the middle of a slow cooker recipe challenge for my blog. Out of all of the recipes I came up with, the barbecue shredded chicken is one of the best. But it didn’t start out that way. One day I cooked chicken breasts and macaroni and cheese in my daughter’s nice big KitchenAid 7-qt. slow cooker. The chicken turned out wonderful, but the mac & cheese was not so great. It tasted good but wasRead More →