This week skip the soups and stews and make the most of the least sexy appliance in your kitchen. Your slow cooker can be used to make everything from a roast beef to tacos. Throw in the ingredients in the morning and have a hot meal at night. These aren't your grandma's slow cooker recipes.
Easy Peasy BBQ Pulled Chicken
This recipe is as juicy and delicious as pulled pork or beef, but just a little bit leaner and lighter. I used a combination of boneless, skinless chicken thighs and chicken breasts because that is what I had in my freezer, but you could use one or the other.
Skip The Takeout Chicken Teriyaki
Who doesn't love a dinner that you can quickly throw together and leave to cook all day? Especially when it comes out tasting better than takeout! As my daughter said to me tonight, "Mom and yum rhyme, and you surely put the yum into this chicken teriyaki, Mommy."
You'll Never Roast A Chicken In The Oven Again
Baking the chicken with slices of lemon on top does wonderful things. First, you don't have to worry about the fact that your frozen chicken will come out tasty. All you really need is a generous sprinkling of salt and pepper, plus the lemons, and you're good to go! Secondly, when slow-roasted, the sugars in the lemon begin to caramelize, giving a sweet, mellow taste unlike anything you've probably ever associated with a lemon.
Pasta With Vodka Cream Sauce
When I recently found myself considering making pasta sauce for dinner and came across some cream cheese and an almost empty bottle of vodka I decided to try to recreate the busy mom's version of a creamy pasta sauce I love!
Balsamic Maple Glazed Ham
Making a ham in the slow cooker is the epitome of “set it and forget it” but most people still assume you spent all day slaving over a hot stove whenever you put any kind of roast on the dinner table. But as with all of my company-worthy Canned Soup Mom Recipes the simplicity of this Slow Cooker Balsamic Maple Glazed Ham Recipe will be our little secret!
Three Ingredient Cinnamon Applesauce
It doesn't get easier than this recipe: three ingredients + one slow cooker = a delicious dessert. The orange juice adds just enough sweetness to minimize any acidity from the apples, as well as liquid so that nothing sticks.
Add This To Your Weekly Menu Chicken Tacos
If it wasn't for the chopping of a few toppings, and the never-easy opening of a jar of salsa, I would argue that you couldn't even call this making dinner.
Roast Beef Dinner: It's Not Just For Sundays Anymore
I make this dinner often because you put all of the fixings in one crock pot and there is no browning of the beef required (one less pot to wash = win!).
How to Cook Dried Beans in Your Slow Cooker
My friend Katie has long since told me the values of using dried beans instead of canned-not only do they taste better, but they are far cheaper and have much less sodium. Still, I found using dried beans a lot of work until I read “The Best of Bridge Slow Cooker” cookbook and found out how to make dried beans in a crock pot!
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