Crock Pot
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Easy Crock Pot Applesauce
I woke up this morning to the most wonderful sight: RAIN! Oh, how I have missed the rain. I know, I know. Everyone else is delighted with summer. And I can take a little summer. But when it’s been as hot (and sometimes humid) as we’ve had lately, then I start longing for good old Pacific Northwest rain. And today it came. 🙂 All that fresh, rain-scrubbed air gave me a cooking- and cleaning-boost. By mid-afternoon, I’d made a crock pot full of applesauce, made a bundt pan and a loaf pan of zucchini bread, shredded eight more batches-worth of zucchini, cleaned our bedroom, vacuumed, swept the kitchen, scrubbed two…
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Crock Pot Pasta Primavera … and Vegan Almond “Parmesan”
Happy Monday! More specifically, happy Meatless Monday! (At least for another hour and fifty-three minutes). Can I let you in on a little secret? We’ve not just gone meatless Mondays anymore, but meatless Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as well. Yep. We’ve gone vegan. I can’t say for certain this very moment if this will be a lifelong lifestyle, because I have a feeling that somewhere down the road I’m going to have a hankering for Anthony’s alder-planked salmon, but I can say that I plan to be a 99% vegan. I think that makes me a flexitarian. So here’s my new favorite recipe. This was a clean-out-the-fridge recipe that worked beautifully.…
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Crock Pot Chicken Santa Fe … So Easy, So Good!
So I’m trying to be good. Good as in, “I will use up every bit of whatever I buy, open, and stick in the fridge.” It’s been a thing with me — but just with weird stuff. For instance, I’ll buy some new curry sauce at Trader Joe’s, use half of it for dinner that night, and stick the second half in the fridge, where it does the slow dance to the back along with all the other archaeological relics. But no more. Today, I turn over a new leaf. And it begins with that can of chipotle in adobo that I bought and opened when I got home from…
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Giant Crock Pot Pesto Meatballs
The snow is just coming down like crazy … you should see it! This is our second visit to Lake Tahoe during “winter.” Technically, it’s not winter yet, but this is the second time we’ve been snowed in. I am overjoyed about that. Here’s what our deck looked like early this morning … … and here’s the tree in front of our condo. Don’t let that blue sky in the background fool you. It grayed right up again and started snowing within minutes of this shot. Yay! I had planned to make chili, but for some reason today, spaghetti and meatballs sounded better. So that’s what’s in the crock pot…
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Crock Pot Jambalaya
Ah, Tahoe. What’s not to love about towering Ponderosa pine trees, a crunchy carpet of needles and Paul Bunyan-esque pinecones, a blue sky, and an emerald lake? Add to that a second-story balcony in a condo we were offered for free, and two weeks to dream, read, pray, think and sleep … now that’s a vacation. Of course I brought my crock pot. That’s what I do. Call me cheap, but I just can’t bear to eat out all day long when I know how easy it is (and how much more affordable) to just pop something in the crock pot once every day or two. So far on this trip, I’ve…
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Crock Pot Salsa Pork
I was SO sure I had already posted this recipe, because it is just about the easiest thing you could ever pull together, and I make it a bunch, and why would I not have already shared that here? But when a friend asked me about it the other day, and I directed them to T&F, we both discovered that I had NOT already shared it. So here it is. Try this some day when you’re too busy or feeling too lazy to cut, chop, dice, puree, mash, blend, saute, braise, boil, whip or fold … or anything I left out. This is all “plop and pour.” And then, devour.…
