Life Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice. The onset of colder weather can prompt a number of foodie casualties: iced coffee, gelato and other summer fare just doesn’t seem as appealing. But there is a bright side to the gray skies of the season: you can finally designate a countertop spot for your slow cooker until spring. We’ve waxed poetic about the slow cooker before; it’s a great method for cooking a wide variety of foods, and in particular, turning cheap and tough cuts of meat into a scrumptious meal.
There’s also an added advantage to this “set-it-and-forget it” style of cooking: you can come home or wake up to a hot meal that’s ready to go with minimal active participation necessary. So, just how versatile is a slow cooker? We asked chefs, food bloggers and other experts for their best inexpensive slow cooker recipes. Do you have a personal favorite? Add it in the comments below! Slow-Cooker Bread There is no need for an expensive bread machine. Fast Slow-Cooked Applesauce Overnight Apple Butter With Bourbon Split Pea Soup. Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Chicken.
Today is Cinco de Mayo and I wanted to take the opportunity to update one of my favourite recipes, this bacon wrapped jalapeno popper stuffed chicken with some new photos! The basic idea was to stuff chicken with all of the flavours of jalapeno poppers and then to wrap them in bacon and grill, fry or bake them. Jalapeno poppers are commonly filled with cream cheese and/or cheddar cheese and they are either coated in bread crumbs and fried until crispy or wrapped in bacon and grilled or baked until the bacon is cooked.
I like a simple mixture of cream cheese, cheddar or monterey jack cheese and diced jalapeno peppers for the filling and the jalapenos can be roasted, fresh or even pickled. These bacon wrapped jalapeno popper stuffed chicken tastes just like jalapeno poppers and makes for one really tasty light meal! The original shot from 2012: Crispy bacon! Mmmmm... ooey, gooey melted cheese! Get ALL 8 Closet Cooking eCookbooks in a bundle for 60% off! Ingredients directions Nutrition by: The Web’s Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. If we had to choose one simple comfort food to eat for the rest of our lives, it would be grilled cheese. Sure we would eventually have to pay for two airline seats and purchase a Neti Pot to keep our nostrils clear, but you know what, it’d be worth it.
If you’re in the same boat, here are The Web’s Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches that you can cook up and enjoy too. Sweet Hot Mustard and Jarlsberg Grilled Cheese If you haven’t swam in the delicious waters of sweet hot mustard before, it’s high time you got your feet wet. Yes, wet with mustard. Caramelized Cheese Covered Grilled Cheese The only thing better than cheese is more cheese (see: Stuffed Crust Pizza).
Shiitake Mushroom and Chipotle Grilled Cheese Any recipe that ends with, “Serve with a cold beer,” is good in our book. Roasted Beet and Chevre Grilled Cheese The name of this sandwich sounds far fancier than the amount of work you’ll put in making it. Brown Butter Grilled Cheese Sandwich Bacon Guacamole Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Raspberry-Mango Sangria. Baked Wonton Tacos.
When I was a little kid, around every New Year’s, my mom and grandma would sit down and make Mandu {Korean version of potstickers or wontons} all day to make Teokguk {Korean version of wonton soup} and I’d just sit with them trying to help out. I remember trying to help out making my own Mandu, though not really successfully. Then my mom and grandma made their own mandu skins from scratch… And now… how grateful I am that I can get premade mandu skins so easily… although I think I should try and make my own skins sometime… It’s definitely on my to-do list.
But until then, these premade wonton skins would do. I’ve been looking for ways to use these little yummies in different kinds of cooking. I’ve always used wonton skins for just wontons… Then I saw that you can use wonton skins for ravioli… So I thought there must be other ways to use the skins, too. I guess you can use anything for anything you like. Boil one chicken breast (boneless and skinless) until fully cooked. Best Steak Marinade in Existence Recipe. Corned Beef Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Guinness Caramelized Onions. When I made the Guinness caramelized onions for the onion cheddar quiche I could not help but snack on a few of them before adding them to the quiche and I was immediately entranced by them! While I was slowly caramelizing the onions, images were flying through my head with all of the different ways that I could use them and I wanted to try them all!
I was finding it difficult to decide exactly which dish to make when I had the idea of using them in a grilled cheese sandwich and I was sold! I was thinking that a corned beef grilled cheese sandwich would be perfect for St Patrick's Day and stuffing it with drunken caramelized onions would be a treat indeed! Given the use of the corned beef in this sandwich I was reminded another favourite, the reuben sandwich , and because of that I decided to go with a dark rye for the bread. Fee free to really fill them up! Get ALL 8 Closet Cooking eCookbooks in a bundle for 40% off! Corned Beef Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Guinness Caramelized Onions.
The Web’s Best Sandwich Recipes. Few foods allow for such creativity as the humble sandwich. By definition, it’s just bread and . . . stuff. PB & J on white? That’s a sandwich. A mountain of pastrami and a bit of slaw between rye? Grilled Cheese and Short Rib Sandwiches Unfortunately, you can’t put this guy together during the opening credits of a movie like a lot of sandwiches.
Soft-Crab Sandwich This sandwich is all about the crab. Thanksgiving Leftovers Club Sandwich Some people say Thanksgiving is the best food day of the year. Coffee Bacon Sandwiches We’re very aware that bacon goes well with anything. Orange Barbecue Pulled Pork Sandwich Whenever we lay eyes on a beautiful pork shoulder, our primal response is, “We gotta rip that sucker apart and devour it NOW.” French Onion Grilled Cheese Sandwich It’s like French onion soup but portable! BBQ Cabbage & Sausage Stuffed Sandwiches Chorizo Breakfast Sandwich With Sage Pesto Sandwiches are not confined to brown bag lunches. California Sandwich The Best Sandwich Ever. Birthday Cake Dip - Home - burgh baby. This recipe has been floating around Pinterest for some time, and I finally had the perfect excuse to try it.
Between birthday parties and picnics and more picnics, I actually had WAY more than plenty of excuses. I made it once and it flew out of the bowl, so now I've tweaked the recipe and made it about four more times. In other words, the idea is a keeper. Kids especially seem to like it, and I pretty much always have the ingredients on hand, so it's easy to throw together in a hurry. Birthday Cake Dip 1 6 oz container vanilla yogurt1/3 cup Cool Whip or whip cream1/2 cup Funfetti cake mix This is going to be terribly complicated, so I hope you can stick with me. I know, you're exhausted just reading that. For best results, make it at least an hour before you need it. You can top it with some rainbow sprinkles to make it a little more colorful, if you want. Grilled Stuffed Peppers with Couscous. Meatball Wellington. I am always looking for appetizer ideas, especially around New Years time, and at Christmas this year, my vegetarian aunt came up with this one.
Why my vegetarian aunt thought of meatball wellington, I will never know, but who cares, it is a fantastic idea! Her idea was wrapping each meatball individually, but I thought that was too much work. I made the meatballs into a mini meatloaf and wrapped it similar to an actual beef wellington which is normally made with a whole beef tenderloin. Instead of the mushroom paste normally between the meat and pastry crust, I made a tomato sauce that was super thick and pasty. Making the pasty sauce, a recipe is below. The meatball mixture laid out on the baking sheet with a slice of mozzarella in the middle. Then it is rolled up. Browned under the broiler. The pasty sauce is spread on the pastry. Only a slight loss of filling. So tasty! These would make a perfect New Years app.
Bake this at 400 for about 25 minutes or until it is nicely browned. 11 of Our Favourite Slow Cooker Recipes. 11 of Our Favourite Slow Cooker Recipes. Chicken Tikka Masala the New British National Dish Recipe at Epicurious. Chicken tikka masala is the world’s most popular Indian restaurant dish, said Rebecca Hays in Cook’s Illustrated. Why, then, “is it so rarely made at home?” Supposedly, the dish was first created by a quick-thinking Bangladeshi chef at a London curry house. When a diner complained about a plate of chicken tikka that had been left in the tandoor oven too long, the chef combined canned tomato soup with cream, added a few Indian spices, and poured it over the dried-out tikka. The dish became so popular in Britain that former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook once claimed it had displaced Yorkshire pudding and fish and chips as the “true national dish.”
But, perhaps because it is not an authentic Indian dish, Indian cookbooks all but ignore chicken tikka masala, and they never re-create the taste and texture we get in a restaurant. servings4-6 Ingredients Preparation For the chicken: Combine cumin, coriander, cayenne, and salt in small bowl. Shrimp Creole. Lasagna Soup. Lasagna Soup This Lasagna Soup is truly like lasagna in a bowl. The flavors are lovely. And the ooey gooey cheesy concoction at the bottom of the bowl is YUM! With spring officially arriving last weekend, this house could pretty much assume that soup would be a rarity for a few months.
I’m just not the kind to put a hot pot on the stove during the spring and summer, unless we have some unseasonably cool weather. My husband, on the other hand, would welcome a cup of hot chili or soup almost any day of the year. But just as soon as spring finally decided to peek out, it disappeared. Gone. Nowhere to be found. When we awoke Wednesday morning, it was to the broadcast of yet another winter storm warning.
But you know the saying…“if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”… So I made soup! I found this Lasagna Soup recipe in our local Kowalski’s Markets magazine, originally from the cookbook 300 Sensational Soups. The soup is truly like lasagna in a bowl. Lasagna Soup Ingredients: for the soup: Directions: Jennifer Segal: Broiled Salmon With Thai Sweet Chili Glaze. This recipe is so simple and yet so elegant. Salmon fillets are quickly marinated in Thai sweet chili sauce, soy sauce and ginger and then broiled until caramelized on top. Begin by making the marinade. The only thing you have to do is grate the ginger because the other two ingredients come straight out of jars.
Be sure to use a good quality sweet chili sauce. My two favorite brands, which are both widely available, are Mae Ploy (pictured above) and Thai Kitchen. Set some of the marinade aside to use as a sauce at serving time, then add the salmon to the rest and marinate for one hour in the refrigerator. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and drizzle a bit of the marinade over the salmon fillets. Broil for 6-10 minutes, depending on the size and thickness of the fillets. Top with reserved marinade and scatter sliced scallions over top.
That's all there is to it! Get the recipe for Broiled Salmon with Thai Sweet Chili Glaze. Get your cook on. Dinner Tonight: Garlic Shrimp with Basil, Tomatoes, and Pepper Flakes. [Photo: Blake Royer] I'm not sure I'll ever quite tire of the magical combination of garlic and chile—when a recipe begins with a little olive oil and garlic and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes, I know we're off to a good start. I'm even more inclined when the involved recipe requires about 10 minutes of cooking and hardly any chopping to boot. I pulled this one from So Easy by Ellie Kreiger, which is full of health-conscious recipes that pack a lot of flavor. Healthy it might have been, but more importantly, delicious. Even though it's December and the snow has been falling furiously in Chicago, the sweet bursts of the grape tomatoes (which tend to be pretty tasty even through the winter months compared to regular tomatoes) and fragrant basil brought to mind a summer picnic.
Delicious Meliscious - a cooking blog by Melissa: Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries. Not being a fan of chocolate covered strawberries, I was happy to find these CHEESECAKE stuffed strawberries on The Novice Chef. You only need a few ingredients to put these together and they turn out to be quite impressive. Try them - you won't be disappointed! Ingredients:2 quarts of fresh Strawberries1 box Jello No Bake Cheesecake (I used this box mix and it came with the graham cracker crumbs. This was good, but next time I think I'd try making my own filling - just to compare.)Crushed Graham CrackersMilk Chocolate for drizzling (I also used white chocolate because I had some) Directions:Wash the berries and hollow out the centers. Delish Squash Bisque Recipe. Mexican Pulled Chicken Stuffed Peppers | Life As A Plate.
I had peppers. I had chicken. I had a million errands to run and wasn’t going to be home most of the day. So I enlisted the help of my crockpot and this recipe came together almost by itself. I topped it with shredded cheese blend of Monterrey jack and cheddar but feel free to use your own blend or eliminate if dairy-free. I used a taco seasoning packet – I know GASP – because I was in a hurry and didn’t feel like measuring out my spices which I normally do.
What you need: What you do: Put whole chicken breasts and all ingredients in crockpot and stir and set on low for 6-8 hours. Hasselback Potatoes. These Hasselback potatoes looks beautiful, don't' they? Here, I also added several cloves of garlic to these Swedish version of baked potatoes to enhance the flavor. It turned out great, they were very delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.. Updated: November 26th 2013 This is an updated post with a new video guide on How To Slice Hasselback Potatoes Hasselback Potatoes (Printable Recipe) Ingredients 6 Medium Size Potatoes 2 - 3 Cloves Garlic, thinly sliced 2 Tbsp Olive Oil 30 g Butter Maldon Sea Salt Freshly Ground Black Pepper Method Preheat the oven to 220˚C (425˚F). Arrange the potatoes in a baking tray and insert the garlic in between the slits.
Bake the potatoes for about 40 minutes or until the potatoes turn crispy and the flesh is soft. The Vimeo Cooking Channel. Mongolian Beef.