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A Southwestern Chowder Chile Recipe On a road trip with my husband, a professional driver, I purchased a corn chowder soup mix. We made the journey to our cabin where there was very little in the pantry. Since I had the soup mix, I went pantry hunting to see what could be used with the soup mix in my slow cooker. The results? Corn and chicken chowder. It was great because that day was windy and cold. Nothing like hot soup on a chilly day. But it’s spring! Soup is supposed to be for late fall and winter days, right? I think soup can be madeRead More →

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Now that I’m back at the cabin after visiting my daughter, son-in-law, and my cute little granddaughters, I’m cooking up a storm in my Rival Crock-Pot. They were gracious to give me full access to the kitchen and the slow cooker for my 30-day recipe project. My daughter’s cooking in her big KitchenAid slow cooker mostly involves appetizers that she makes for her CARES teams. She makes the best caramel apples. I had fun helping her unwrap the caramels. I’m so proud of her. She is great at planning meals and appetizers for the CARES team events, and she is such a good mom andRead More →

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A Garden Salsa Velveeta Dip When do your garden tomato plants first start bearing tomatoes? Late spring? Early summer? There’s nothing like making salsa from your own organic garden. If you have an abundance of tomatoes, make a salsa for your family and extra to give as gifts to your family and friends. You’ve probably mixed hot sauce with Velveeta. How about coming up with your own sauce by combining tomatoes, squash, zucchini, peppers, and/or any other vegetables from your organic garden? I mixed a little of my homemade garden salsa into the remainder of Velveeta cheese I had on hand. If you like cheeseRead More →

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Slow Cooker Salsa Do you prefer to eat fresh salsa or cooked salsa? Vegetable and herb gardens make the best fresh salsa, and you can get as creative with it as you want. Make it hot or mild, bold and spicy, or sweet and spicy. Don’t have a garden of your own? Vegetables and herbs from the produce section at the supermarket you frequent or from your local farmer’s market will work just fine. When you favor a particular salsa recipe, cook it and store it in a jar. Make it last longer by cooking the ingredients and storing in a jar or plastic containerRead More →

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Slow Cooker All-Day Baked Beans Meal Doesn’t hamburgers and baked beans sound like summer foods? I know it’s the spring season right now, but summer days are coming. If you ask me, I think spring and fall seasons don’t last long enough. I suppose that depends on what part of the USA or world you live in. But in East and Southeast Texas where it gets humid and the California desert where my cabin is, it gets hot too quick for me before summer arrives. I’d be happy for spring or fall days all year long. When the hottest part of summer comes around, cookingRead More →

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Slow Cooker Vegetables Healthy veggies are not the most popular menu item, but we need them. It’s tricky to come up with veggies that the whole family will eat. If you can come up with a veggie your family likes and it’s cooked in the slow cooker, then you’ve accomplished quite a feat. I was craving vegetables one day since I’ve been visiting my daughter and her family and picked up squash and eggplant. The challenge was to get the whole family to like it. When I was a young girl, my mother often cooked squash. I loved it. Yellow summer squash. She didn’t everRead More →

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Two-Hour Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Spaghetti Cooking for my monthly challenge, 30 Days of Slow Cooker Recipes, has been fun. I love creating recipes. What has made it interesting is visiting with my daughter and her family and trying out the recipes in her huge seven-quart KitchenAid appliance. Seven quarts of food swallows up the amount my little round slow cooker makes. The other interesting factor of cooking the slow cooker meals at my daughter’s place is I’ve been taking a chance by trying out different recipes for four people. Although we all like several of the same foods, there are differences. A couple ofRead More →

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A Barbecue Shredded Chicken Recipe from Leftover Chicken When a toddler likes a food you prepared, you know it’s good. On my recent visit to my daughter’s, I was in the middle of a slow cooker recipe challenge for my blog. Out of all of the recipes I came up with, the barbecue shredded chicken is one of the best. But it didn’t start out that way. One day I cooked chicken breasts and macaroni and cheese in my daughter’s nice big KitchenAid 7-qt. slow cooker. The chicken turned out wonderful, but the mac & cheese was not so great. It tasted good but wasRead More →

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Colorful Summer Chili Summer chili is very nutritious because it has a variety of colorful veggies. By that time, the days are hotter. Cooking the chili in a slow cooker is wonderful. No heating up the kitchen over a hot stove. Plug the cooker in, fill it up with all the ingredients, and let it cook on low all day. In this slow cooker chili recipe, however, the hamburger has to be browned beforehand. Of course, you could do that the night before or a week before and freeze the meat until you’re ready for it. English or Sweet Peas? I like chili any timeRead More →