Spanish rice is a favorite recipe for rice at my house. It’s a hot, hearty meal that warms you up during the cooler months. I don’t wait for fall or winter to make it, though. We love to eat it all year around. I’ve used the same easy Spanish rice recipe for years. Instead of ...
Most crockpot recipes call for adding salmon towards the end of the cooking time to prevent it from becoming overcooked and rubbery. But your crockpot can cook salmon to perfection without being added last minute. Here are three cooking methods that allow your slow cooker to take its time cooking salmon to perfection. Poached Method ...
There’s a chill in the air today and I think it’s time to pull out one of my favorite small kitchen appliances, the versatile electric slow cooker or crockpot . Here are three of my favorite fall recipes for your slow cookery enjoyment! Crockpot Tomato Sauce There are tons of tomatoes in my garden so ...
What’s for dinner? Chicken and rice is often a common answer, but there are many ways to take these two simple ingredients and turn them into great family meals that are affordable, quick and easy to prepare and absolutely delicious. Fresh food and good preparation techniques are key to taking ordinary foods ingredients and making ...
How to Peel a Tomato: If you like to cook, you will often come across a recipe that asks you to peel a tomato. First, there is no law saying that you have to actually peel the tomato. If you don’t mind the skin of your tomato ending up in your cooked dish, then just ...
The crock pot is something most people get as a wedding gift, and if not most kitchens are equipped with one, but it is an often forgotten item. I love crock pots. I have used many over the years, and tend to use them more in cooler and colder weather, because of the heat they ...
It’s important for us to eat dinner together as a family as many times a week as we can. We turn the television off, maybe choose some music off of one of our iPods and all sit down to enjoy dinner together. Now, as a busy family with two working parents and a child with ...
If you are like me, Thanksgiving and Christmas menu planning includes figuring out if I have enough stove burners and oven space to handle all the dishes I want to fix. Using a slow cooker, or if you are lucky, more than one, really helps relieve the stress of getting everything onto the dinner table ...
Curry chicken in a slow cooker or Crockpot may sound like an oxymoron but trust me it is not. Once you cook curry chicken in a slow cooker you may never fix it any other way; the slow cooking causes the meat to be so tender it falls off the bone. The best thing about ...