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Slow Cooker Recipes – Delicious Dishes Recipe Party #156

Lolli — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:44:52 +0000

While our kitchen has been in a never-ending construction state for the last couple of months, we’ve been making more crock pot recipes (plus, slow cooker meals are exactly what the middle of the winter calls for). I’ve always hated cleaning the crock pot, and our #1 problem with cooking lately is our difficulty in cleaning dishes with no kitchen sink…but I discovered the amazingness of slow cooker LINERS (yes, that is an Amazon affiliate link in case you want to be like me and avoid washing the crock pot).

I don’t think I’ll ever go back to cooking in a “naked” crock pot!

Welcome to Delicious Dishes Recipe Party! In case you’re new to the party, here’s what you need to know:

Delicious Dishes is a weekly link party where bloggers can share their most delicious recipes while checking out the amazing recipes that other bloggers are sharing.

Each link you share here will be seen on each of the hostess’ blogs listed below >>

Food Fun Family – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

She Saved – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Walking on Sunshine Recipes – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

This Mama Loves – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Clever Housewife – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Bunny’s Warm Oven –Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Each week we will be featuring our favorite recipes from the week before and pinning them to our Delicious Dishes Pinterest board.

We hope you’ll have fun with our party…we know we will!

The Recipes with the Most Clicks Last Week Were…

#1: 25 Air Fryer Recipes from Mommy Hates Cooking

#2: Honey Garlic Roasted Carrots from Cincy Shopper

#3 Perfect Pecan Praline Recipe from Frog Prince Paperie

Delicious Dishes Party Favorites from Last Week:

These are the recipes that the hosts loved the most…

I loved Slow Cooker Root Beer Barbecue Pulled Pork from Ann’s Entitled Life

Lois loved Crock Pot Pulled Pork Tacos from Suburban Simplicity

Brett loved Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup from Cincy Shopper

Keri Lyn loved Crock Pot Cream Cheese Chicken Recipe from Flour on My Face

Emily loved Crock Pot Pepperoni Pizza Meatball Subs from Flour on My Face

Mary loved Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken from The Kittchen

Follow us along on our Pinterest board. We pin a ton of recipes that are shared to our linky party each week. So get your recipes ready. We can’t wait to see what’s cooking in your kitchen this week.

Now let’s get this party started!

An InLinkz Link-up

Tasty Pork Recipes – Delicious Dishes Recipe Party #150

Lolli — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:02:03 +0000

Hi guys! I saw a meme the other day about how LONG January is. Seriously, I feel like the holidays were ages ago. How is it still January?

We’ve got more snow on the horizon, and the cold temperatures have me craving comfort food. Pork is one of those foods that I swear no matter how you cook it, it’s comforting!

These recipes from our readers have my mouth watering!

Each link you share here will be seen on each of the hostess’ blogs listed below >>

Food Fun Family – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

She Saved – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Walking on Sunshine Recipes – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

This Mama Loves – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Clever Housewife – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Bunny’s Warm Oven –Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Each week we will be featuring our favorite recipes from the week before and pinning them to our Delicious Dishes Pinterest board.

We hope you’ll have fun with our party…we know we will!

The Recipes with the Most Clicks Last Week Were…

#1: Best Tuna Salad with Secret Ingredient from Marilyn’s Treats

#2: Pan de Coco from The Not So Creative Cook

#3: Valentine’s Day Swirl Cookies from Walking on Sunshine Recipes

Delicious Dishes Party Favorites from Last Week:

These are the recipes that the hosts loved the most…

I loved Instant pot Pulled Pork and Mango Puffed Pastries from Must Have Mom

Lois loved Pulled Pork Street Tacos from A Proverbs 31 Wife

Brett loved 30 Minute Instant Pot Honey Garlic Pork Tenderloin from Flour on My Face

Keri Lyn loved Pork Chops with Sour Cream Gravy from Bunny’s Warm Oven

Emily loved Skillet Pork Chops with Feta Cheese from Organized Island

Mary loved Simple Delicious Roasted Pork Tenderloin from Adventures of Mel

Now let’s get this party started!

An InLinkz Link-up

Instant Pot and Crock Pot Recipes – Delicious Dishes Recipe Party #83

Lolli — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:00:34 +0000

I’m heading back home today after nearly two weeks at my mom and dad’s house. What a wonderful vacation (finally! I waited all summer for this!). The kids start school in a week, so I’ve got my work cut out for me when I head back.

During the summer, we tend to eat more casually than we do during the school year (ie, I don’t cook a lot of sit-down dinners) so
once school starts and we’re back to a normal schedule, we pull out the Crock Pot and Instant Pot (Amazon affiliate links).

Here are a couple of my personal family favorites:

Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala

Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup

Crock Pot Greek Chicken

Crock Pot Cheesy Vegetable Soup

And there’s so much more. Really, I could cook in the Crock Pot and the Instant Pot every night and never get tired of the meal choices. I’m so excited to add all of these host favorite recipes from you guys to my meal plans in the next month!

Each link you share here will be seen on each of the hostess’ blogs listed below >>

Food Fun Family – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

She Saved – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Walking on Sunshine Recipes – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

5 Minutes for Mom – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

This Mama Loves – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Clever Housewife – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Bunny’s Warm Oven –Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Cooking in Stilettos – Blog / Facebook / Pinterest

Each week we will be featuring our favorite recipes from the week before and pinning them to our Delicious Dishes Pinterest board.

We hope you’ll have fun with our party…we know we will!

The Recipes with the Most Clicks Last Week Were…

#1: Baked Pumpkin Donuts from Cincy Shopper

#2: Make Ahead Lunch Ideas for the Whole Family from Mom’s Choose Joy

#3: Homemade Muffin Mix from Little House Living

Delicious Dishes Party Favorites from Last Week:

These are the recipes that the hosts loved the most…

I loved Instant Pot Hawaiian Haystacks from Clever Housewife

Lois loved Easy Crock Pot Chicken Parmesan from Flour on My Face

Brett loved Instant Pot Korean Chicken Meatballs from The Bewitchin Kitchen

Susan loved Slow Cooker Orange Chicken from A Cultivated Nest

Aly loved Crock Pot Zuppa Toscana Soup from Flour on My Face

Keri Lyn loved Crock Pot Chicken with Vegetables from Organized Island

Emily loved Crock Pot Carnitas from Flour on My Face

Mary loved Mississippi Pot Roast from Rose Bakes

Now let’s get this party started!

An InLinkz Link-up

The Best Crockpot Chili Recipe

Lolli — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:00:00 +0000

When I was making my menu plan a couple of weeks ago, I asked my kids what they’d like me to add to the menu. My 16-year-old daughter didn’t hesitate to ask for homemade chili, and I was happy to oblige. Not only is chili delicious and GREAT for this time of year (hello, comfort food!) but I love meals that I can fix in the morning and forget until dinner time. Crockpots are the best, especially for busy moms like me who spend the entire afternoon driving kids from here to there. When is there time to cook?

This recipe was a bit of an accident. A happy accident. I often make “half-homemade” chili by adding a bunch “Extras” to a can of chili (so that it stretches farther and so it tastes a little better) but I was determined to find a better alternative. I turned to Pinterest, of course, and searched for “best chili” and came back with this pin, which led me to this recipe from Pink When. I tucked it away so that I could make it within the next week.

Before I had a chance to make the chili, I tried making some hamburgers one night. In an effort to stretch my hamburger meat, I decided to mash some black beans and add them to the ground beef. I add black beans to dishes with ground beef all the time. I did not expect what happened….

My black bean hamburgers were a complete flop. They were a crumbly mess. I gave up on my notion of black bean hamburgers, added the cooked black bean-ground beef crumble to a tupperware, and took the kids out for fast food that night (something we never do on a week night!).

The next morning, I grabbed that chili recipe I’d been saving, pulled out the crumbled hamburger, and started making my pot of chili. It could not have been easier, and the entire family RAVED about how delicious it was. Definitely a huge improvement over canned chili (or even the half-homemade chili).

Note: this recipe makes a large crock pot full of chili. If you don’t have a family as big as mine and don’t want a ton of leftovers, then I would recommend freezing half of the chili for a quick meal at a later date. Just pull the saved chili out of the freezer and stick it back in the crock pot to warm up!

The BEST Chili Recipe – In the Crock Pot!

5.0 from 3 reviews

The Best Crock Pot Chili Recipe

Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

5 hours

Total time

5 hours 15 mins

Author: Lolli

Serves: 12

Ingredients

3 lbs lean ground beef, seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic
1 can black beans, drained and mashed
1 medium onion, chopped
½ of a large bell pepper, chopped
½ tablespoon chili powder
1½ teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
½ teaspoon white sugar
½ teaspoon oregano
½ teaspoon minced garlic
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 (15 oz) can kidney beans, drained
1 (15 oz) can Great Northern beans, drained
2 (6 oz) cans tomato paste
1 (28 oz) can marinara sauce (I used Trader Joe's Tuscano Marinara Sauce)
1 cup water
Shredded cheese to top

Instructions

In a medium bowl, mix mashed black beans and ground beef. Add spices to season. Brown the ground beef mixture until cooked through. Drain grease, if necessary.
Add cooked ground beef mixture and all of the additional ingredients to a large crock pot and stir. Cover and cook on low for at least 5 hours (since your meat is cooked, you're mainly cooking the chili for that long to blend flavors). Serve warm with shredded cheese, if desired, and crackers or corn bread.

If you like this recipe, you are going to love these recipes, too:

Note: I used a canned marinara sauce from Trader Joe’s, which I think looks more like crushed tomatoes with spices than a spaghetti sauce.

For more Pinterest remakes, visit a few of my favorite bloggers:

Berry Sipper Mocktail by Confessions of an Overworked Mom
Starbucks Cup Gift Card Holder by Homemaking Hacks
Ice Lanterns by Upstate Ramblings
Lip Scrub by Mom Always Finds Out
The Best Homemade Vanilla Extract by How Was Your Day?
Vintage Cheddar and Gruyere Mac and Cheese with Polish Kielbasa by A Day in Motherhood
Flourless Brownies with Craisins and Pistachios by Day by Day in Our World
DIY Hot Chocolate Mix Recipe by Just 2 Sisters
Tiger Nut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies by Home and Garden Cafe
Bang Bang Chicken by Jennifer Sikora
Frozen Banana Yogurt Peanut Dog Treats by 2Boys+1Girl=OneCrazyMom
Dark Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Oatmeal by Sincerely Mindy
Garlic Monkey Bread Recipe by Gator Mommy
Homemade Vanilla Orange Mint Sugar Scrub by Baby Loving Mama
Valentine’s Day Strawberries by Sizzling Eats
All Natural 2 Ingredient Lip Gloss by The Socialite’s Closet
Pantry Tomato Pasta by The Guavalicious Life
How to Make Strawberry Pecan Bread by Mommy Snippets

Brazilian Chicken Soup With Rice

Lolli — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:09:49 +0000

This Brazilian chicken soup with rice is one of our family’s favorite soup recipes ever.

Note: Amazon affiliate links are used in this post to show the tools I use to make this tasty soup!

I discovered the recipe back in 2009 when I was sent a rice multi-cooker. We still use ours several times a week and LOVE to death BUT it is not available anymore – this one is similar. If mine ever dies on me, I will be replacing it immediately!

Brazilian Chicken Soup With Rice

Enough about the rice cooker and back to this delicious chicken soup with rice recipe. I have changed the recipe just slightly since the first time we made it (by leaving out the shrimp and frequently cooking it in the crock pot versus a Dutch oven), but I can’t recommend it enough. Please note that although the rice is a very important part of the soup, it is cooked and stored separately from the soup and only added to the soup bowl when ready to eat.

Note: in all honesty, I have no idea if this recipe is really like anything that would be served in Brazil (I’d love to know!) but regardless of what it’s called, it’s simply good soup! And right now is definitely soup weather!

Dish me up a bowl!

5.0 from 1 reviews

Brazilian Chicken Soup With Rice

Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

1 hour 15 mins

Total time

1 hour 30 mins

Author: Lolli

Recipe type: soup

Serves: 8

Ingredients

Boneless, skinless chicken thighs or breasts (I use about 2-3 breasts or 4-6 thighs, depending on how meaty I want the soup)
Salt and pepper, to taste
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice, divided
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
1 cup diced green bell pepper
1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
⅓ cup finely chopped toasted peanuts
1 medium jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
2 bay leaves
1¼ teaspoons salt
¾ teaspoon ground black pepper
3 cups chicken broth
1½ cups coconut milk
10 ounces frozen peas
Chopped fresh cilantro, to taste
4 cups cooked jasmine or basmati rice

Instructions

Place the chicken in a medium mixing bowl and season lightly with salt and pepper. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the lime juice and rub chicken with minced garlic. Mix thoroughly and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Heat olive oil in a large Dutch Oven. Add onion and pepper and sauté for about 4 minutes, until soft and fragrant.
Stir in the canned tomatoes with juice, peanuts, jalapeno, bay leaves, salt, pepper, broth, and coconut milk. (Note: be sure to stir or shake the coconut milk prior to pouring from can). Add the chicken with marinade and stir until well combined.
Heat to boiling and then reduce heat to simmer. Cover and simmer for at least an hour, or until chicken is cooked through (if chicken is very thick, you may want to cute into smaller chunks).
While soup is heating, prepare rice.
About 10-15 minutes before serving, remove the chicken and cut or shred into bite-sized pieces and return to pot. Add frozen peas and additional 1 tablespoon of lime juice. Replace lid and heat for an additional 10-15 minutes.
To serve, place some warm cooked rice (approximately ⅓ to ½ cup depending on portion size) in the bottom of each soup bowl and ladle the soup on top. If desired, sprinkle with chopped cilantro and/or chopped peanuts.

Notes

Instead of simmering on the stove, I like to throw everything in the crock pot after sauteeing the onions and peppers and cook on low for 5 hours or so.

Slow Cooker Pepper Jack Chicken

Lolli — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:00:41 +0000

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Crystal Farms Cheese. All opinions are 100% mine.

It’s no secret that I love cheese. Especially pepper jack. I like to keep a block of pepper jack cheese in the fridge for myself. It’s a favorite mid-day snack.

So when I was challenged to come up with a slow cooker recipe using Crystal Farms® cheeses, I knew I needed to come up with a recipe using pepper jack.

I love a good challenge…especially when I get to eat my results.

Did you know that Crystal Farms® has been committed to providing the highest quality products to consumers since 1926? The hard-working people of Lake Mills, where Crystal Farms® has been made for the past 25 years, are devoted to delivering consistent quality and great tasting products for what they love – cheese.

Crystal Farms products are:

Natural with few preservatives
Rich source of calcium
Located in the refrigerated dairy section
All products are gluten-free
Lactose tolerant

Ready to see how I made this delicious chicken in the crock pot?

Slow cooker pepper jack chicken has it all…

it’s super easy to make
it tastes delicious
you can throw everything in the crock pot in the morning and spend hardly any time in the kitchen before dinner
it’s cheesy. Need I saw more?

You do NOT want to miss this dinner recipe!

The BEST Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

Lolli — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:00:40 +0000

I’m so glad you’re here!

Are you ready to learn the secret of the BEST slow cooker BBQ chicken?

I adore cooking with my slow cooker, but I often don’t think of using it in the summer, for whatever reason. Crockpot meals are comfort food for me…and comfort food makes me think of cold weather.

This week, though, I cooked two meals in the crock pot – one old recipe and one new recipe. The new recipe – slow cooked BBQ chicken – was such a hit that I watched my boys devour the entire pan before my eyes. I’m talking plates piled high with cleaned-off bones.

I was impressed.

I’ve made easy 2-ingredient BBQ chicken in the crock pot plenty of times (you know the recipe – dump chicken in the crock pot and cover with BBQ sauce). It’s good and it’s certainly easy, but it doesn’t wow me.

As much as I love chicken in the crockpot, I do have one complaint…the chicken becomes so tender that it falls off the bone and becomes a mess. But when I cook drumsticks and thighs on the grill or in the oven, I often find that the flavors don’t get on the part of the chicken that I’m actually eating (I’m not a skin-eater, so I like my chicken – not the skin – to be infused with flavors).

This recipe seemed to take care of both issues. You start out with a full-flavor dry rub of spices and seasonings and top with a small amount of BBQ sauce over the top. Instead of swimming in liquids that you add at the beginning, this chicken starts out relatively “dry” and is cooked in its own juices.

I know…I’m probably being too picky. But I’m telling you. I’m VERY enthusiastic about this chicken. It was the best bone-in chicken I’ve cooked inside my house.

The cast iron searing at the end was the clincher for me. It took a basic crockpot chicken to a whole new level of slow-cooker awesomeness. Yes, it means that you have another dish to clean (ask my husband…I am not a fan of hand-washing the crock pot!), but the added depth of flavor is totally worth the extra time and effort.

Ready for this recipe? Get it HERE!

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken and Naan

Lolli — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:15:58 +0000

Last week, I posted some pictures of our Sunday night crock pot dinner on Instagram and had more requests for the recipes (for both the butter chicken and the naan) than I was expecting. I found the recipe on Pinterest (isn’t that where all good recipes hang out?) and followed it to Half Baked Harvest.

Because I wasn’t able to find one of the ingredients listed in her recipe at the store and in order to adjust it to our taste and family size, I changed the recipe slightly to what you see below. It really was one of my most popular everyone-liked-it recipes that I’ve made my family in a while – and my husband is a huge fan of Indian food (and a tough critic to please!).

Enjoy!

5.0 from 1 reviews

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken and Naan

Cook time

8 hours

Total time

8 hours

Author: Lolli

Serves: 8

Ingredients

2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
1 small onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
3 cloves garlic, minced or grated
1 teaspoon ginger powder
3 teaspoons curry powder
1 tablespoon curry paste
4 tablespoons Tikka masala paste
1 teaspoon turmeric
1½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 (12 ounce) can tomato paste
1 (14 ounce) can light coconut milk
1 cup greek yogurt
½ cup half and half or heavy cream
Serve with cooked white rice and naan

Instructions

In a large bowl, mix spices, tomato paste, coconut milk, yogurt and cream.
Spray the inside of your slow cooker with cooking spray. Add onion to slow cooker, then chicken. Pour sauce over chicken. Add the butter on top of sauce, cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
Serve with white rice and naan.

You will definitely want to make this naan recipe as well. It is some of the best naan I’ve ever eaten, thanks to the secret ingredient – more Greek yogurt!

Crock Pot Cheesy Vegetable Soup

Lolli — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:35:01 +0000

Love soup? Be sure to check out my other soup recipes (my favorite thing to cook and eat that isn’t chocolate!).

I signed up to bring a soup to a luncheon earlier today. It was the perfect opportunity to make a cheesy vegetable soup that I had been craving. A friend of mine made this soup many years ago at another, smaller luncheon, and we all asked for the recipe before we had finished eating.

The same thing happened today.

I brought an enormous crock pot full to the brim with soup and left with an empty crock pot. And I had to promise several ladies that I would share the recipe. So without further ado…

Slow Cooker Cheesy Vegetable Soup

4.6 from 5 reviews

Crock Pot Cheesy Vegetable Soup

Cook time

6 hours

Total time

6 hours

Recipe type: soup

Serves: 10-12

Ingredients

5 cubed potatoes
2 cups sliced carrots
1 cup diced onions
2 cups chopped celery
2 cups chopped broccoli (or a combination of broccoli and cauliflower)
6 cups chicken broth
**Sauce ingredients:**
½ cup butter
1 Tbsp prepared mustard
½ cup flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
2 cups milk
12 oz American cheese

Instructions

Place chopped vegetables and chicken broth into crockpot and cook on low for 4-6 hours, or until vegetables are soft.
30 minutes before serving, prepare sauce: On the stove melt butter; then add flour, mustard, salt and pepper. Stir until combined.
Slowly add milk and cook on medium heat until thickened.
Add sauce to crock pot along with cheese. Stir until cheese is melted and fully combined.

To make chopping so many vegetables a whole lot easier, I use my Vidalia Chop Wizard, a handy tool my mom recommended that I buy…and that has become one of my favorite tools in the kitchen. Instead of taking hours to chop vegetables by hand, it only takes me 30 minutes to prepare everything for the soup.

Variations: Obviously, for a vegetarian meal, it’s easy to substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth. The soup would also be yummy with some added chicken. Veggies can be blended after cooking if you prefer a less chunky soup.

Enjoy!

Note: Amazon affiliate code used in post.