Slow Cookers

April 22, 2015December 8, 2016 spodalicious kitchen gear, slow cooker

When people tell me they can’t cook or they hate to cook or they’re scared to cook, the first thing I ask is “Do you have a crockpot?” Seriously, buying and using a crockpot (or, more accurately, “slow cooker”) is the easiest way to feel like you’ve got healthy cooking within your grasp. And it’s not even really cooking.. I think of it more like “combining” or “compiling” or (the much less appetizing) “dumping.” I mean, c’mon… 3 ingredient Chicken Cacciatore that takes about 5 minutes to put together?! Continue reading →

Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore

March 31, 2015March 1, 2016 spodalicious slow cooker, the easiest! chicken

This is one of the easiest and cheapest recipes ever. 3 ingredients… around $15 for 5 servings! Continue reading →

Cowboy Chili

March 10, 2015April 22, 2015 spodalicious slow cooker beef

One of the things I like about making chili or stews or casseroles is you don’t have to worry about following a recipe exactly. Have some roasted corn? Use it! Don’t have roasted corn? Use a can of plain corn. Making 2 different recipes? Split the corn!

I was at Trader Joe’s and saw that they had lean beef already cut into cubes and I was feeling lazy and wanted the quickest, easiest thing to throw in the crockpot so I picked up a couple packages of the beef and a couple of bottles of their Cowboy Caviar and went from there… (if you can’t get to a Trader Joe’s, here’s a copycat recipe for the salsa).

So here’s the version of Cowboy Chili I happened to make last night… I’m sure it will be a little different next time. 😉 Continue reading →

Chunky Pork Chili

March 5, 2015April 22, 2015 spodalicious slow cooker pork

A day in front of the TV (Lord of the Rings marathon FOR THE WIN!) is a great excuse to make something in the crockpot. My roommate was baking it up in the kitchen so I needed something really easy that wasn’t going to take much space to put together. I had pork in the fridge I’d bought with the intention of making pulled pork, but, since we made that the day before in Cooking Club, I didn’t want any more… so I settled on pork chili (I never actually knew there *was* such a thing until a business trip last week where I had it in a little hole in the wall Mexican restaurant!).

This was delicious! It may be one of the best chilis I’ve ever made… and SO EASY. Continue reading →