Tastes So Good, It Could Be A Meal In Itself! One year, I was lucky enough to move into a country home where the former owners had a passion for stalky veggies and fruits. I was far beyond thrilled when I noticed asparagus spears coming up out of the ground the second year I lived [...]
Toss It In, Set Your Temp & Go Live Your Life – Dinner Is Handled! I am a huge fan of my slow cooker. It was my very first “kitchen gadget” purchase when I set up my first apartment back in the 1970s. I still use that same old slow cooker. Yes, it is very [...]
How To Easily Deconstruct A Popular Mexican Dish. This unique recipe from Sarah combines two of my favorite things: slow cooking and Mexican food! I love enchiladas, but they are a chore to make. First you have to prepare your filling, then you have to fill and roll the tortilla shells and finally you bake or [...]
You Will Never Believe The Humble Ingredient Behind This Easy, Flavorful Dish! Jaclyn’s easy and tempting recipe took me right back to my college days, and then my first days as I struggled to build my career. I practically lived on those 29-cent packages of ramen noodle soups. Funny, they came in so many different [...]
That’s No Swiss Army Knife You’ve Got There, Mister! Jamie has really come up with a winning casserole this time, and it is one that I could never have thought of making. Seriously, I never would have thought of combining these 6 particular ingredients into anything except a sandwich, and even that is a stretch [...]
If You Like Stuffed Peppers, You Are Going To Love This! I really adore stuffed peppers, now that I am an adult and my palette has become more sophisticated. As a kid, I dreaded those days when my mother decided to fix these for dinner. I thought the overwhelmingly “green” taste of the peppers was [...]
Slow Cooker Simplicity Saves The Day! Okay, so maybe it IS still 100 degrees in the shade where you live. I get it….soup is probably the last thing on your mind in such unforgiving temperatures. Ah, but just because you will be cooking this chowder in your slow cooker doesn’t mean you have to serve [...]
This Is Not Your Typical, Soupy Slow Cooker Meal One of the first things you will notice about Tiffany’s amazingly simple, yet extremely flavorful, slow cooker recipe is that there is no liquid being added, other than a tiny bit of oil. What? But don’t you have to include some type of liquid to cook [...]
You Might Cook This Slowly, But It Will Disappear FAST! Here in the South, we are absolutely rabid about our barbeque, and there have been family feuds fought over which type of sauce is best. Some prefer a sweeter sauce, while others like theirs vinegar-based. Usually when you go to a place that serves barbeque [...]
You Can Count On This Magically Disappearing! Well! This most certainly isn’t your mama’s lasagna! Who stole the red sauce? Where’s the beef? What’s going on here, anyway? This unique take on lasagna comes from Taste of Home, and it just might turn the whole notion of lasagna on its ear! The basic recipe for [...]