This past week I put together a few of my produce box vegetables to make a curry dish. This coconut and curry dish is slightly sweet with a thick sauce made of puréed squash. It made plenty of food – enough for freezing, leftovers, or to feed a large crowd. I served it with cookedContinue reading “Coconut Curry & Butternut Squash”
Category Archives: slow cooker
Southwestern Pinto Soup
I made this heavenly toasty soup earlier in the week in my way too dusty slow cooker. I need to brush it off and use it more often, it’s just too luxurious to come home to a house that smells deceivingly like a laborious meal. The slow cooker meal feels almost magical, and I getContinue reading “Southwestern Pinto Soup”
Butternut Squash & Chick Pea Soup with Quinoa Noodles
This soup rocked our weeknight meals this week. The pureed butternut squash makes a fantastic flavorful base without being loaded up with dairy. The celery and carrots complement the chick peas perfectly. The only thing I might consider doing differently in the future, is adding actual chunks of butternut squash as well. Surprisingly this soupContinue reading “Butternut Squash & Chick Pea Soup with Quinoa Noodles”
Sweet Yogurt with Saffron + New Year
For New Year’s Day our family dined on Indian inspired delicacies. I whipped up my version of sweet yogurt with saffron as the dessert on this cold, snowy first day of 2014 in Iowa. Saffron is one of the main flavorings of this sweet and subtle dish. Saffron, picture above, is the world’s most expensiveContinue reading “Sweet Yogurt with Saffron + New Year”
Roasted Carrot Ginger Soup
Here is another option for a Thanksgiving side. Soup is a fantastic way to feed a large crowd, especially as a starter or a side. This can be made a day or two in advance and refrigerated or even frozen a week or more in advance. Simply put in the slow cooker on warm. BeContinue reading “Roasted Carrot Ginger Soup”
Smoky Beer Chili
It’s Lindley Park Chili Cook-off Day! So, if you are in Greensboro area and would like to try some chili, stop by from 4 to 7 PM today. You can vote for my creation there, or you can try making it for yourself. Mommy’s Medley Smoky Beer Chili. The fire roasted diced tomatoesContinue reading “Smoky Beer Chili”
Squash Sweet Kidney Stew
This stew was everything I want in a meal: quick to prepare, ready when I got home, filling, vegetarian, spicy, and full of contrasting flavors. The sweet potato and butternut squash flavors paired perfectly with the kidney beans and peanut butter. Tonight, I have one more recipe adapted from the Skinny Slow Cooker publicationContinue reading “Squash Sweet Kidney Stew”
Vegetable Coconut Curry with Rice
Here comes another week-day, school-night friendly slow cooker recipe in the form of Vegetable Coconut Curry with Jasmine rice. Again, while perusing the Skinny Slow Cooker publication from Better Homes & Gardens, I adapted a recipe that is a perfect Indian flavors meal for our family. This thing has seen a few meals, canContinue reading “Vegetable Coconut Curry with Rice”
Slow Cooker French Toast
Well, summer’s over. Tomorrow is the first day back to school with the kids. You know what that means – the time of year when this phrase is uttered in our two-teacher household: “I’m too tired to cook dinner tonight, it’s your turn.” So what is the solution, other than to spend a fortune onContinue reading “Slow Cooker French Toast”
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