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...]
Shredded Beef Sandwiches with Red Cabbage and Apple Slaw
This is just perfection right here. Slow cook a beef roast. (Ideally that you get on sale.) Make your own slaw with red cabbage and apples. (Here's how to shred cabbage.) Put it all together on a sandwich bun or slider buns. And you've got yourself an amazing, amazing summer dinner! See the full Summer Slow Cooker recipe for Shredded Beef Sandwiches with Red … [Read more...]
Maple Dijon Salmon
Have you ever cooked salmon in the slow cooker? It's perfect...it doesn't dry out on the thin edges like it can when you bake it or grill it. It only takes an hour, so it's a great "budget friendly gourmet" option for a late summer dinner. Drop it in the slow cooker as soon as you get home and in an hour, you'll have perfect salmon. This maple dijon sauce is divine...and … [Read more...]
Tuscan Bean Soup
Perfectly light for the summer and ridiculously delish. I think you could serve this soup chilled too! While I don't love eating soup in the summer, a lighter "chillable" soup is sometimes all I need/want to eat after a day in the sun. This is also super freezer friendly once it's cooked, so you could do a double batch and freeze some to serve chilled later in the … [Read more...]