Slow Cooker Chicken Teryaki A slow cooker gourmet meal that’s fit for company. Another adventure in crock pot cooking! This is one of the best ones I’ve made yet. Yes, I know it has 2 more steps than “throw it in, set it, forget it,” but these steps are well worth the effort. Browning…
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Ginger Beef with Mandarin Oranges
Ginger Beef with Mandarin Oranges An economy cut of beef and long slow cooking produce this great flavored Asian beef stew. I start by saying I am not a great fan of slow cooking. Probably because I was never a stew lover. Yep, I use it for soups and there are a few things I…
Classic Pot Roast
Classic Pot Roast Who doesn’t love pot roast? An American favorite! How easy can this get? Mix a few ingredients, pop it in the slow cooker and dinner is ready about 8 hours later! What I generally do when I make a pot roast is do it the day before, then refrigerate. Not only does…
Apple Dapple Pudding (Slow Cooker)
Apple Dapple Pudding Warm and spicy apple dessert easily made in the slow cooker. Perfect for fall. The story of this starts with the fact that I had to buy an entire bag of Granny Smiths to make the sweet kugel. Rather than let them go bad, I wanted to use them because even though…
Smoky Chipotle Ribs
Smokey Chipolte Ribs Great ribs with a smokey hint of chipotle. I wanted to make some ribs since I was backed up in the freezer with baby back ribs. But I wanted something different. Seems I’m always doing baby backs Asian style. I’d had a taste for chipotle peppers and I had some in the…
Split Pea Soup with Ham
Split Pea Soup with Ham Here’s another great way to use some more of that leftover ham from Easter dinner. Nothing could be easier. Just put everything in the slow cooker and let ‘er rip. I serve with buttered toasted croutons. All I do here is melt butter in a skillet and “toast” the…
Northeast Hearty Bean Soup
Northeast Hearty Bean Soup With the recent snows and cold snaps we’ve been experiencing in upstate New York the past couple of weeks, soup, and especially hearty and filling soups have been on my mind. I finally settled on making my hearty bean soup when I saw a huge bag of great northern beans staring…
Chili Hater’s Chili
Chili Hater’s Chili Much like the dreaded meatloaf, I was never a lover of chili. My late husband used to beg me to make this for him, and I just could never bring myself to do it. Fortunately, a neighbor satisfied his chili lust by sending over a doggie bag of hers whenever she…
Maple Meatloaf
FROM KITCHEN “DISASTER” TO TREASURED RECIPE Maple Meatloaf I’ll begin by saying, “I HATE meatloaf.” Always have since I was a child. My kitchen odyssey has been at times to experiment with this hated dish to see if I could come up with something the least bit palatable–to me at least. About 4 or…
