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7 Crock Pot Recipes That Rock

7 Crock Pot Recipes That Rock
Crock pot, slow cooker, call it what you will, but this convenient kitchen appliance is hotter than ever. No longer just for pot roast or some goopy dips (though there's nothing wrong with those either), you can make almost anything in your crock pot from breakfast to dinner, drinks and more. I just recently bought a crock pot because it seemed everywhere I turned someone was talking about something new and delicious they'd just whipped up in theirs. So I took the plunge and bought one. My only regret is that I didn't buy one sooner. It's so amazing to be able to throw a few ingredients in first thing in the morning then come home to a house filled with wonderful smells and a fully cooked dinner. 1. This was one of the first dishes I made in mine, and it was amazing. 2 pounds of London broil cubed1/4 cup all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon salt1 medium onion, chopped2-3 cloves of garlic, minced2 beef bouillon cubes or equivalent granules1 cup water1 cup sour cream (light works fine. 2. 3. 4.

10 Recipes Everyone Should Know How To Make This is my list of recipes I think everyone should know how to cook. These recipes will be the ones that I make sure my kids know how to cook before they leave the nest. Knowing how to make all these basic dishes teach essential skills you need to know in the kitchen to be able to learn how to cook a wide variety of dishes. 1. Roast Chicken – Roast Chicken is a recipe everyone should know how to do. 2. 3. Ingredients 2 cups plus 2 teaspoons long grain basmati or jasmine rice 2 cups chicken stock 1 glove garlic, grated 1/2 medium onion, chopped fine 1 teaspoon olive oil Instructions 1. For a healthier recipe, check out the secret to quick and easy brown rice here. After learning these two simple rice recipes, you can easily stir fry any combination of meat and vegetables to make a quick and healthy dinner. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. What recipes should every mom know how to make?

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Salted Caramel Recipe These salted caramels are soft, chewy and perfectly melt away in your mouth. Our salted caramels recipe is easy-to-follow and has step-by-step photographs to make this extra easy. We’ve also shared lessons we’ve learned from making our own caramels at home. Making Our Salted Caramels Recipe – Lessons We’ve Learned From Our Own Mistakes One thing we love about cooking is that no matter the recipe or technique, with practice and a little sense, it can become easy. Be Ready. Before you begin making salted caramels make sure you you’ve read through the recipe a couple times and have all equipment ready and ingredients measured out. Crystallization is Bad. When making caramels, it is important to do everything you can to prevent crystallization, which can make your caramels grainy and ruin the texture. For our recipe, when you’re adding the sugar to the pan, add it slowly and with control. For this reason, we include a little fail-safe in our recipe. Try not to stir sugar as it cooks. Directions

Cheesy Stuffed Meatball Sliders Hello you perfect game day snack. Or perfect dinner. Or perfect reheated I-just-came-home-from-the-bar snack. Or perfect hungover breakfast. Cold. I love you. And I don’t even really like meatballs. Meatballs and mini things. I didn’t want to show you this creeptastic picture but I felt like I needed to tell you that it’s okay if your mozzarella oozes out of your meatballs. This is what happens in my kitchen. Everything is always better in slider form, right? Cheesy Stuffed Meatball Sliders makes about 15 meatballs 2 pounds lean ground beef 1 egg 2 tablespoons olive oil 2/3 cup romano cheese 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 teaspoons dried basil 2 teaspoons dried parsley 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1/3 cup panko bread crumbs 4 ounces of mozzarella cheese, cut into cubes + more for topping 3 cups of your favorite pasta sauce 12-15 slider buns (or dinner rolls if you cannot find them) basil for garnish/topping Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. I’ll bring the wine.

10 Gourmet Meals For $10 or Less photo: 10buckdinners.com Eating cheap is easy. Given $10 to buy ingredients for a meal for four, even the most hopeless home cook could whip up grilled cheese and tomato soup or a simple spaghetti-and-meatballs combo. But putting together a gourmet dinner for under $10 is more challenging. Now Frugal Foodie has a challenge you: what’s your best super-cheap yet gourmet meal? (All cost estimates are based on non-sale New York City supermarket prices. One Pan Chicken and Rice by Hilary Allard of Sliced and Diced Cost: $5.73, or $1.43 per serving. Allard’s sauté uses one pot and is finished in the oven, minimizing dishes as well as cost. Caramelized Cauliflower Fritatta by Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious Cost: $7.08, or $1.77 per serving Fresh herbs give Natkin’s frittata zing, but can make a big dent in the budget if you’re not already growing your own. Monday Spinach Rice Medley by Katie Clark and Telly Kousakis of More Dough Than Dollars Cost: $7.15, or $1.79 per serving Strawberry Chicken Salad

Millionaire's Shortbread Since one half of the blue-eyed baking squad is currently blogging from waaaay across the pond in London, we figured we'd bake you lovely duckies a British treat. Shortbread. Millionaire's shortbread (ooooh aaaah). Don't get too excited. There's no money in this crumbly deliciousness. But there is crumbly deliciousness which counts for something right? Right. So there's shortbread, which is rather tasty on its own, and v v British. Just go with it. And THEN to transform it into Millionaire's Shortbread (ooooh ahhhh), you slather the aforementioned crumbly deliciousness in caramel and chocolate. We know. It's ok, just go slow, eat some melted chocolate along the way to keep your strength up, and you'll do just fine. And then, you can have as many pieces of the crumbly deliciousness slathered in the caramel and the chocolate as you want. We totally hit the jackpot. Millionaire's Shortbread Print Recipe For the chocolate: 1 1/4 cups semi sweet chocolate, chopped First, make the shortbread.

Fluffernutter Cupcakes At 6PM last night, the last thing on my mind were cupcakes. Until I looked at this bowl of batter. After a magical food-and-wine filled weekend, all I wanted was a normal one-course dinner without 3 forks and 2 spoons. Since I was staying near the airport to gain easy access to my flight this morning, I dragged myself to the nearest restaurant and plopped down in the booth. I ordered, I ate and I even declined the dessert menu because surely nothing was going to taste as incredible as the vanilla bean panna cotta I ate twice this weekend. Then I reached for my wallet. But all I found in my purse was four lip glosses, a few hair-brush fur balls, makeup removing face wipes and like six hundred unorganized receipts. Uh… what? So I asked if I could see the dessert menu. I ordered some banana cream pie to go, and when Justin Bieber my server brought me a square of styrofoam, I asked if he could also bring me some chocolate cheesecake. He just sort of stared at me. I left. So that’s my story.

7 Restaurant Favorites: The Secret Recipes Revealed! Going out to eat is awesome. Paying the bill is oftentimes not. While I believe you need to treat yourself to a meal out occasionally, if you find yourself wistfully driving by KFC just to see if they're giving away hot wing samples, you may want to figure out how to satisfy those urges at home. While you may be tempted to remove some of the sodium and fat from these winners, realize you may be saving your life, but you won't be fulfilling your chain restaurant jones. From Applebee's to Olive Garden, I've got the recipes you want. T.G.I. Not surprisingly, this recipe is as dairy-rific as I assumed. What you'll need: 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese in small chunks 1 to 2 teaspoons minced garlic, or garlic powder 1 package frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry 1 (14-ounce) can artichoke hearts, chopped Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Chili's Baby Back Ribs Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion Romano's Macaroni Grill Penne Rustica

Chai Ice Cream Recipe 1 Into a heavy saucepan put the 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of the cream and the chai spices - star anise, cloves, allspice, cinnamon sticks, white peppercorns, and cardamom pods, and a pinch of salt. Heat the mixture until steamy (not boiling) and hot to the touch. Lower the heat to warm, cover, and let stand for 1 hour. 2 Reheat the mixture until steamy hot again (again not boiling), add the black tea leaves, remove from the heat, stir in the tea and let seep for 10 minutes. Use a fine mesh strainer to strain out the tea and spices, pouring the infused milk cream mixture into a separate bowl. Return the milk cream mixture back to the heavy bottomed saucepan. 3 While the tea is infusing in step 2, prepare the remaining 1 cup of cream over an ice bath. 4 Whisk the egg yolks in a medium sized bowl. If the custard base doesn't coat the back of the spoon, it's not ready. The custard base coats the back of the spoon. 8 Store in an airtight container in your freezer for several hours before eating.

Beecher's "World's Best" Mac & Cheese We came up with this recipe when we opened Beecher's. We wanted to show our customers that you can cook with and eat great cheese every day, and this killer mac and cheese uses two of our cheeses with a background hint of garlic powder and chipotle pepper. We've already won the vote for Seattle's best Mac and Cheese, but the tens of thousands of people a year from all over the world who eat it in our store tell us it's the world's Best. serves 4 as a side dish SAUCE 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups whole milk 7 ounces Flagship cheese, grated (about 1 3/4 cups) 1 ounce Just Jack cheese, grated (1/4 cup) ½ teaspoon coarse salt ¼ to ½ teaspoon chipotle chili powder 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder PASTA 6 ounces penne pasta (about 3 ¼ cups) 1 ounce (1/4 cup) Flagship cheese, grated 1 ounce (1/4 cup) Just Jack cheese, grated ¼ to ½ teaspoon chipotle chili powder Instructions Preheat oven to 350F. Bake, uncovered, 20 minutes.

NerdyBaker | I'm a wife and mother of three. I love to bake, go to the movies, and am kind of a great big nerd. Just don't tell my husband. 7 Romantic Meals For $10 Or Less Creating a romantic meal at home is a somewhat bigger challenge than your standard Monday-night fare. Especially if you haven’t yet cooked for this significant other — or, if you’re in a long-term relationship, haven’t cooked for them often. And especially when the occasion in question is Valentine’s Day. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to up to romance factor, either overtly (like aphrodisiac ingredients and candles on the table) or covertly (that valentine’s favorite dish). Frugal Foodie recommends sticking to what you know, and what you know your sweetheart will like. We talked to chefs, home cooks and other relationship experts about their go-to date meals. There are appetizers, main courses, desserts and even a next-day breakfast, all for under $10 to prepare. Oyster with Spicy Vinaigrette and Apples Cost: $8.37 for half a dozen oysters, or $1.40 apiece. Strawberry-Tangerine Salad Cost: $5.36, or $2.68 per serving. No need to load up on aphrodisiacs. Chicken Madeira Intimidating?

What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like? Breakfast Meals English Muffin Breakfast – 394 Calories 1 whole wheat English muffin 2 pats low fat butter 1 hard boiled egg 1/2 cup of fruit 8 oz fruit juice 8 oz water Cereal – 300 Calories 1 cup of cereal 8 oz 2% milk 1 banana 1 coffee or tea Oatmeal – 345 Calories 1 cup (cooked) oatmeal with raisins ½ cup of fruit 1 cup coffee or tea 1 small banana Scrambled eggs – 360 Calories 2 scrambled eggs 2 strips of turkey bacon 1 piece whole wheat toast 1 pat of low fat butter 1 coffee or tea 8 oz water Lunches Baked potato – 305 Calories 1 medium baked potato 2 tablespoons sour cream 2 tablespoons salsa 1 cup sliced melon 12 oz water Roasted Veg. 3 cups mixed greens 1 cup sweet potato 1 cup eggplant 1 cup red bell pepper 3 Tbs lite honey mustard Soup – 350 Calories 1 bowl of soup 1 small tossed salad 2 tablespoons reduced fat oil and vinegar dressing 12 oz water 4 saltine crackers Chicken Salad – 350 Calories Dinners Chicken – 345 Calories Grilled Eggplant – 323 Calories Fish – 365 Calories I can’t. Ouch!

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