Would it be okay to just eat this for dinner? It's got fruit. And bread. And milk. It seems balanced enough. Right?!? I may or may not have been eating this stuff right out of the slow cooker. I think it's the ginger. Don't skip out on the ginger on this one. Frozen peaches plus ginger plus cinnamon. Coated in a little sugar. With a cakey topping that 'bakes' on top in … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Cherry Cake
Yes, only 3 ingredients. If you don't count the ice cream or whipped cream that you could add to the top. To all my friends that we'll BBQ with this summer, I'll be bringing this every time. :) 2 cans of cherry pie filling. (I used 2 cans because I used my slow cooker is a 7 qt. Even in my 6 qt, I'd use 2 cans. I'd probably use 1 can for 4 or 5 qt. … [Read more...]
Creamy Ranch Chicken
This chicken is amazing. The sauce is amazing, the chicken is perfectly tender. I make my own cream of mushroom soup and ranch dressing mix for this one, but you could certainly use the can/mix from the store! Let this slow cook the day away, then stir in some cream cheese at the end to thicken up the sauce and mmmmmmmmm.... This just might be your family's new favorite … [Read more...]
Shredded Beef Tacos with Mango-Avocado Salsa
During the summer months, I get a bit obsessive about tacos and fresh toppings. Flour tortilla or corn tortilla. Shredded chicken, or shredded beef, or shredded pork. Those are the "base" options for my tacos. Then I have fun playing with different toppings for the tacos. Mango and Avocado is one of my favorite combos - both for these tacos, as well as guacamole, or … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Red Curry with Cod
Yes. It's as good as it looks. This is a simple red curry sauce with some veggies and the mild whitefish, cod. If you're not a fish fan, you could certainly substitute the white fish for small pieces of chicken, beef or pork. Also, this would be amazing with salmon too! Tip for slow cooking fish: remove any skin and then add to the whole fish into the sauce in the slow … [Read more...]
Black Bean & Corn Enchiladas
I made these babies on the Today Show once. True story. These are also super fast to throw together (like the slow cooker veggie lasagna) because there isn't any pre-cooking of meat to go into the enchies. It's a delicious corn-black bean mixture that you mix up and roll up inside of the corn tortillas. Then douse with enchilada sauce and cheese and let the slow cooker warm … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Veggie Lasagna
To.Die.For. This has got to be the easiest lasagna I've ever made. Like ever. Why? Because there is no pre-cooking anything. No pre-boiling noodles. No browning ground beef or sausage. Just a little mixing of the homemade sauce (yes, you could use pre-made marinara instead) and mixing up of the cheese layers. Layer it all into your slow cooker, like you would into a … [Read more...]
Salsa Verde Shredded Pork Tacos
More shredded pork...because shredded pork is easy summer food. This time we're putting it into tacos...corn tortillas in this case, but you could certainly use flour tortillas. I love the flavor combos from the shredded pork that cooks in salsa verde, along with the creamy goat cheese and spicy bite from the fresh jalapeños! I'm licking my lips just looking at these … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Raspberry-Blackberry Crisp
So this started out as a blackberry crisp...then as I started pulling it all together to cook for dessert, it morphed into a blackberry-raspberry cobbler. Crisps usually have oats in them, this one doesn't...it's made with yellow cake mix. This poor dessert recipe is having a bit of an identity crisis - it's part crisp-part cobbler, but really it's a cobbler. But let me … [Read more...]
Hawaiian Chicken
If you've been following closely to the recipes in our summer slow cooker series, you've probably noticed a pattern. Simple. Simple is the pattern. All the meals are super simple. Summer is supposed to be a time of relaxation, loose schedules, more flexibility, later bedtimes. But for us, it often ends up being busier, more frantic and hectic than the school year. It's … [Read more...]