You may need a tomato based soup, creamy base or broth based soup for your family this week and I have you covered in all the categories. These 50 Slow Cooker Soup Recipes will quickly become your family’s new favorite go-tos! These 10 Slow Cooker Soup Recipe with Chicken can be added to any meal plan: Pin this Recipe For Later! Slow Cooker Soup Recipes with Chicken Slow Cooker Soup Recipes with Chicken are super easy and delicious!...
Ok, let me just tell you how much I love our new vegetable garden signs. They’re happy. They’re smiling. They’re colorful. I just love them! Doesn’t it make you just want to start growing veggies? If you have visited my Vegetable Recipe Index page you might have seen these veggie icons smiling at you. So when it came to make new garden signs, we decided to use my icons and bring them to life....
Italian Anise Cookies Recipe These classic Italian Anise Cookies will have you eating 1 and wanting more. Trust me. Each cookie is soft, tender and baked to light golden brown. Once baked they’re dipped in a simple vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles are added on top. From start to finish these cookies will take 30 minutes as you don’t need to chill the dough. The recipe makes 18 cookies, but you can easily double or triple the recipe if you want to make more....
Maybe it was because 2020 was a doozy and everyday just feels like it blends together to make one giant day, but seriously where did the last 6 months go? I’m not even going to talk about how much Enceladus has grown up in the last year (I’ll save that for another post), but seriously Proxy… look at her, sitting up with her 2 little teeth! 6 Month Old Milestones Proxima currently enjoys sitting up eating everything she can put into her hands, drooling nonstop (2 teeth, more very soon I think), bouncing wildly in her activity center, yelling as loud as she can and then looking shocked when you ask her what does she want....
I make Mexican food for dinner at least once a week, I often whip up Chicken Tortilla Soup, Instant Pot Tacos, Black Bean Tacos, Taco Spaghetti Casserole or this fabulous Quesadilla Casserole. One of the Best Mexican Casserole Recipes! Sometimes there’s just nothing better than a piping hot casserole, loaded with cheese of course! This easy ground beef Quesadilla Casserole is so simple to put together, but really delivers in the flavor department....
I have a new favorite cookbook. It’s called Edwardian Cooking, The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook by Larry Edwards. I don’t even watch Downton Abbey (YET) and I’m already obsessed. The cookbook includes 80 recipes from Sweet to Savory that include Breads, Side Dishes, Entrees, Desserts. In the opening the author states “Long before there was the rage of organic food, sustained living and natural eating, there was the abbeys of Great Britain....
Easy Slow Cooker Meatballs Recipe You’re going to love how delicious (and how saucy!) these slow cooker meatballs are. This spaghetti and meatballs meal is so easy to make – throw the baked meatballs into your crockpot, and come back later for a delicious dinner! This is a hit with the entire family, even the opinionated (oh goodness, so many opinions) 3-year-old asks for a second serving! 🙂 How long do meatballs take in the crockpot?...
I have not been this excited about sharing a recipe in quite some time. This Crockpot Bread is easy to make, it’s delicious and I’m so addicted I made it 2 times this week already! The bread is soft, moist and is perfect for dipping in a big bowl of creamy tomato soup or cheeseburger soup! What is Crockpot Bread? Crockpot Bread is homemade bread made in your crockpot. This loaf of bread is soft on the inside, with a crusty top....
If you love it you can probably agree that it’s not the most healthy for you. Low in calories, sure, but not exactly the best homemade ingredients that a dinner can offer you, so I set out to make a homemade version of La Choy’s Chop Suey. This is a pretty quick dinner recipe and is loaded with veggies. It has bok choy, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and bean sprouts! Aren’t the vegetables so pretty together?...
Mini peanut butter cups recipe I can’t get over how easy it is to make Homemade Peanut Butter Cups. Just like the classic Reese’s peanut butter cups, these sweet, chocolatey, and nutty treats are so addictive! This recipe makes 24 mini peanut butter cups but I recommend doubling the recipe to stash in your freezer. This mini peanut butter cups recipe has 4 simple ingredients: chocolate, peanut butter, graham cracker crumbs, and powdered sugar....
Baked Salisbury Steak Recipe Looking to make homemade Salisbury steak? Look no further, this is the recipe you should try! The Salisbury steak is baked in the oven to make moist ground beef patties. On top is a tangy gravy sauce. And even better, there’s plenty of gravy to go around so you can add more on top when serving, or add some to your mashed potatoes (must have side dish for Salisbury steak!...
With garden season approaching, our seed order just arrived in the mail. Even though we’ve had a few near record low temperature days in NYC, that doesn’t mean we can’t be starting our Spring garden indoors. The first step is germinating our seeds. After just 3 days of planting our seeds, we have a full tray of seedlings that have already broke through the soil! To save time and money, we find that with just a little extra work you can have nearly perfect germination rate with the right tools....
Chocolate Protein Powder Oatmeal Recipe One breakfast I’ve been loving is Double Chocolate Protein Powder Oatmeal. With this Chocolate Protein Oatmeal I get what I need: protein to keep energy up and chocolate. Because who doesn’t want chocolate in the morning? I look forward to waking up now! Here’s a quick recipe video I made to show you how easy it is to make! Ingredients For my Chocolate Protein Powder Oatmeal you need one scoop of protein powder (I use Vega Essentials powder) and a few basic ingredients that I know you have in your pantry....
Easy Vegetable Lo Mein Recipe This is my go-to Vegetable Lo Mein recipe when I’m craving one of my favorite Chinese food dishes, but want to cook at home. It’s super easy to make and comes together in less than 20 minutes. The recipe is very family friendly, with even my 1-year-old slurping up her noodles and asking for “more mama!!!”. If you want to speed up this recipe even faster for meal prep, you can chop up the vegetables in advance and keep them in your refrigerator....
Well, I’m all about bread making right now. This week I made a loaf of whole wheat bread, corn bread, sugar cookies (in the bread machine) and now these homemade rolls. Being in the kitchen is definitely helping me escape these stressful times, and what’s better than making fluffy little rolls that I can dab with butter and jam? My entire family has been gobbling these up and love them so much....
How to Make a Moist Bread I know you’re thinking “There’s no butter in this, so how’s it going to be moist? How’s it going to be fluffy? Pamela, are you lying to me?” I would never lie to you about something as serious as Banana Bread! The truth is that by adding applesauce, we’re making a extremely moist bread, so moist you won’t even know there’s butter missing in it!...
I’m obsessed with these Snowman Peanut Butter Balls. They are delicious. They are super cute. Does a holiday treat need to be anything more than that? Plus, they are snowmen! There’s nothing about a snowman that I don’t fall in love with. Ingredients In Snowman Peanut Butter Balls This recipe uses 5 ingredients and the 2 stars of the show are graham crackers and creamy peanut butter. You can use Skippy, Jif or another brand that you like, just make sure it’s creamy....
You guys know I’m a bit of a donut addict, right? Many readers have made my Baked Sugar Donuts and Chocolate Donuts so I thought it was time I made a Christmas Donuts recipe to share! Ingredients In Holiday Chocolate Donuts: The donut batter for this recipe is a simple mixture of: all purpose floursugarcocoa powderbaking sodasaltvegetable oilvanilla extractwater The chocolate frosting is a classic frosting recipe that I use on many of my donut recipes....
Chocolate whoopie pies with peanut butter filling I’m a sucker for anything that combines peanut butter and chocolate. I can’t help but serve Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies, Chocolate Donuts with Peanut Butter Frosting, or these Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies at almost every party or celebration. These whoopie pies, in particular, are a crowd favorite and put a smile on the face of anyone who takes a bite! I like to think of whoopie pies as the cupcake’s super cool and mature older cousin....
What is the best way to freeze fresh tomatoes? Tomatoes are a staple to so many great dishes and are often quite prolific when you grow your own plants. More often than not you end up with more than you could possibly eat at one time. As watery as tomatoes are, they are actually great for freezing! It’s so simple too. Quicker and easier than canning by far. Here are some great tips for freezing your tomatoes to use in dishes like stews, soups, and sauces later....
