"Eyes Closed" Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe

We are enjoying the second week of summer vacation in our house. I love having the kids home with me. I sometimes feel like I "lose...

Slow Cooking in the Summer Months

The weather has warmed, and we're spending more and more time out in the yard.  I love it. But I STILL use my slow cookers more often th...

5-Ingredient Homemade Beef Stew

We have had the world's funkiest weather in the Bay Area lately. On Monday my back and shoulders got burned while gardening, and today I...

Slow Cooker Chicken Puttanesca

SPRING BREAK is over. It was pretty anticlimactic and I'm still trying to figure out where I went wrong. We were really looking forward ...

Slow Cooker Hearty Lima Bean Soup

Stop! Don't run away! Lima beans are good for you, and I promise this soup tastes nothing like the watery pile of pale lima beans you we...

Slow Cooker Dry Rub Pork Roast

I hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day! My kids are off school today, and are in the other room in a chocolate coma, givin...

Fiesta Chicken Casserole in the Slow Cooker

Happy January 15th! Research shows that most people have given up on their New Year's Resolution by now. I can see that, since I'm e...

Black Eyed Pea Chili in the Slow Cooker

2012 is practically over which means it's been nearly 5 years since I had my first bowl of Black Eyed Peas. I wasn't impressed. I...

Lentil Minestrone Soup Recipe

I had a cold last week. I'm better now, but there were a few days there when I was pretty much certain that I was going to choke to deat...

Slow Cooker Bourbon Baked Beans

  I bought bourbon for the first time. I wasn't sure what kind to buy, but chose the Jim Beam because I recognized the name and it was o...

Beef Curry Slow Cooker Recipe

I love curry. I didn't always --- growing up, I thought curry was spicy and I never ordered it in a restaurant, and always shied away wh...