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Family Dinner Plan: Slow cooker, pressure cooker and leftovers
Ah, the joy of late fall/early winter dinners. Slow cookers and pressure cookers become my BFFs, for their ability to transform everyday food stuffs into delightful soups and stews perfectly suited to...
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Family DInner Plan: Short week and slow cooker plans
With a short week, soccer starting (both Spring and Indoor), a science fair project or two, and a volunteer recognition dinner, the week’s menu needs to be easy and designed with planned over...
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Family Dinner Plan: The anti-Valentine’s Day Menu
You know what – when Valentine’s Day falls mid-week, it is a huge pain the butt. Pretty much guarantees that there will be no special dinner, the best we can hope for is a card (which requires me to...
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Crock Pot Sloppy Joe (recipe)
This is one of my kids’ favorite recipes and rather than have to hunt it down next time I want to whip up a batch, I am going to jot the recipe down here and keep track of this family favorite. Super...
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Family Dinner Plan: Week-old greens
Last week we had a big box of veggies from Mariquita Farms. Because of our crazy schedule last week, we still have a pretty big box of veggies from Mariquita Farms, but some of the greens are looking...
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Family Dinner Plan: Dust off the slow cooker
First full week of school, plus soccer practices for all, so I plan to bring out the slow cooker at least once this week. And Mariquita had a special Ladybug delivery of San Marzano tomatoes last...
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From My Home to Yours: Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie
Took dinner to two friends last month, and decided to use my slow cooker to help the job along. Followed the recipe in Cook’s Illustrated Best Slow & Easy Recipes for Slow-Cooker Chicken Pot Pie,...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Plan: Back to School
Back to school this week, and yes, I am a little happy. I do love the structure the school year provides, but I am also happy to take several weeks off and unwind. In addition to going back to school...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Vietnamese-style Pork Tacos (recipe)
At our summer cooking camp, we taught the NYT Cooking version of this recipe to our group of teenagers. It was one of the best recipes from the week, the kids loved the flavors and frankly anything...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Chicken Enchiladas
This last week was jam packed with lots of fun activities. I had my two Interior Design classes, watched the first league meet for Cross Country, met my hiking group on Wednesday, and took a long arm...
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