We always grill on Memorial Day weekend. It's just tradition. Being in the backyard with the boys running around, maybe a sprinkler going, smelling the deliciousness coming from the grill, and hearing neighborhood children chatter and play all around us. Love it! Wishing you an enjoyable and memorable Memorial Day as we celebrate and honor all the men & … [Read more...]
Black Bean & Corn Enchiladas
I made these babies on the Today Show once. True story. These are also super fast to throw together (like the slow cooker veggie lasagna) because there isn't any pre-cooking of meat to go into the enchies. It's a delicious corn-black bean mixture that you mix up and roll up inside of the corn tortillas. Then douse with enchilada sauce and cheese and let the slow cooker warm … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Veggie Lasagna
To.Die.For. This has got to be the easiest lasagna I've ever made. Like ever. Why? Because there is no pre-cooking anything. No pre-boiling noodles. No browning ground beef or sausage. Just a little mixing of the homemade sauce (yes, you could use pre-made marinara instead) and mixing up of the cheese layers. Layer it all into your slow cooker, like you would into a … [Read more...]
Salsa Verde Shredded Pork Tacos
More shredded pork...because shredded pork is easy summer food. This time we're putting it into tacos...corn tortillas in this case, but you could certainly use flour tortillas. I love the flavor combos from the shredded pork that cooks in salsa verde, along with the creamy goat cheese and spicy bite from the fresh jalapeños! I'm licking my lips just looking at these … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Raspberry-Blackberry Crisp
So this started out as a blackberry crisp...then as I started pulling it all together to cook for dessert, it morphed into a blackberry-raspberry cobbler. Crisps usually have oats in them, this one doesn't...it's made with yellow cake mix. This poor dessert recipe is having a bit of an identity crisis - it's part crisp-part cobbler, but really it's a cobbler. But let me … [Read more...]
Hawaiian Chicken
If you've been following closely to the recipes in our summer slow cooker series, you've probably noticed a pattern. Simple. Simple is the pattern. All the meals are super simple. Summer is supposed to be a time of relaxation, loose schedules, more flexibility, later bedtimes. But for us, it often ends up being busier, more frantic and hectic than the school year. It's … [Read more...]
Pulled Pork Sliders
This just reeks summer. BBQ, pulled pork, sliders. Finger food, grab n go food, picnic food, backyard BBQ food, "take a bite and put it back on your plate and keep running around the backyard" food. Start this in the morning and you've got a great BBQ meal waiting for you when you get home from a busy summer day... See the complete Summer Slow Cooker recipe for … [Read more...]
Sweet Thai Chili Salmon with Veggies
Yes. Another slow cooker salmon recipe. Because I'm crushing hard on cooking salmon in the slow cooker. This is amazing. That is all. I've not had salmon with sweet Thai chili sauce in the past and WOWEEE. We'll be having it again...not only did I love it, so did all the boys! This one is a super simple "load" - it goes like this: line with parchment paper, add the … [Read more...]
Shredded Beef Tacos with Pineapple-Pepper Salsa
If you've been hanging around these parts of the interwebz for any period of time, you've figured out that I love to slow cook meats and shred them up for tacos and sliders! And then I love to add awesome fresh fruit and veggies salsa-toppings. It's a fun game that I like to play with what's on sale and what would work well together. That's how this recipe was born! {If … [Read more...]
S’mores Dip
Because it's just too hot to have a fire here in the summer. I know this isn't true for everyone...especially my friends who live up north. Summer evenings are perfect for campfires and s'mores! But if you live in the south like yours truly and the thought of a campfire in the summer makes you want to melt, you can do this instead. A s'mores dip. Made in the slow … [Read more...]