slow cooker

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Recipe Sunday: Kielbasa and Bean Stew

I absolutely love my slow cooker. Even though it gets used mostly during the winter, it’s great to bust it out every once in a while to make yummy one-pot dishes. This is somewhere between a stew and a hearty soup, so it is not heavy for summer. The original recipe comes form the Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook, and is great because it does not require much prep, and it is easy to make tweaks and substitutions. Next time I am planning on swapping the turkey kielbasa with some chorizo or another spicy sausage to give the dish a little kick. Continue reading

Easy-Peasy Slowcooker Chili

Greetings, fellow-members of the I Hate to Cook But I’m Stuck Doing It Club. Here is a recipe for excellent chili. I’ve been making chili for so long I can’t remember the last time I looked at a recipe for it, so what you’re getting is the distillation of many years experimentation (aka, using whatever’s in the house that is conceivably suitable for chili on the day the chili is being made). Continue reading