What’s your go to method for finding recipes? Do you just search in Google? Do you have a recipe box full of tried-and-true recipes? Do you have a shelf of cookbooks where your journey begins? What about a stack of recipes torn from magazines? I’ll admit that I use all those resources. In fact, I’ve got more recipes than I will ever prepare…but I sure love looking through … [Read more...]
👨🏻🍳Soups & Chili
Do you smell that? No, not the trash that needs to be taken out (what are those kids waiting for anyway…it’s one of their chores). I mean the wonderful aroma of the slow-cooker full of chicken soup I’m making for dinner (and beyond). I know, it’s not really fair for me to talk about what I can smell in my house…but it smells so good! The all-day nature of cooking in the … [Read more...]
10 Essential Slow-Cooker Recipes
Sometimes you just need to put something into the slow-cooker and get it going. You don't want to fiddle with anything. You don't want to search for a new and exciting recipe. You just want a standby that you know your family will eat. So bookmark this post and you'll have 10 recipes that you can use as your go-to on a busy day when you need to get on with other things in … [Read more...]
📣Check Out The Dump (Meals)
Originally this post was supposed to be a list of the best websites I could find on the internet for dump meal recipes. I’ve been working on the list for a couple of months now in anticipation of this series of blog posts, and frankly to get myself into the swing of making more meals in advance at Hectic Manor. While things have been crazy for the first few weeks of school, we … [Read more...]
📖Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook
If you’re looking for a gigantic cookbook with a huge selection of recipes for your slow-cooker, this is the one for you! The Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook by Phyllis Pellman Good is an enormous cookbook with a recipe for pretty much anything you could desire. Well, anything you can make in a slow-cooker, that is. As an added bonus, the recipes tend to be short and have … [Read more...]