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Crock Pot Butter Chicken

Soooooooooooooooo, yeah. My Butter Chicken recipe doesn’t call for any butter. I know, I know. I think I might have just created a culinary sin.

I really, really love my butter. I love it with fried eggs, I love it on bread, I love it on broccoli…I love it on my finger. HOLLA!

But when I decide to cook something in the crock pot, it almost always eliminates the need to use butter (unless I’m baking a cake or something).

And why would I unnecessarily “waste” my butter for something in the crock when I could keep it for eggs or some other deliciousness?

So, I did some looking around online to make sure I wouldn’t be excommunicated from the food community and I discovered that a lot of recipes for butter chicken just don’t call for butter.

Big relief. My bread is saved! Hallelujah!

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Peaches are a sign of summer. Peaches are delicious. Peaches are sticky. Peaches rot. I had a good amount of peaches in my fridge that were starting to go the way of the dinosaur…and I didn’t feel like canning them since there weren’t that many. And I didn’t feel like eating 3 pounds of peaches in one day either. While yes, I could do that…going to the ER to get my stomach pumped is not my idea of a good time. *Burp*

So, I think I had a stroke of genius when I decided to make this…I already had apple butter on the brain, thinking I could tweak my recipe and use stevia (which I haven’t tried yet). Then I thought to myself, “Self, I bet peach butter would rock my face off.” So, self decided to try it…and self was right. It DOES rock my face off. Self is a genius.

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Crock Pot Chile Rellenos

I come from a long line of good cooks. Family get-togethers are always chocked full of delicious looking delicacies. I’m very blessed to have a lot of them written down – today I’m going to share a tweak of one from my Mama’s cousin, Lisa.

Her original recipe for Chile Rellenos called for them to be baked – and y’all know I have this thing for my crock…so I changed it to be cooked that way. I also added and subtracted a few things based on what I currently had. The original recipe also called for white flour – so I switched it up and converted it to almond flour instead. BIG WIN, ladies and gentlemen. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Jalapeno Bacon Mashed Cauliflower

There is a new love in my life – Cauliflower. Cauliflower doesn’t leave white starchy spots all over my counter when I chop. We’re getting along quite well, thank you. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Country Redneck Chicken Paella

So, here’s the thing. I’ll be totally honest. I forgot to take pictures of this dish. I took some when I set the plates down at dinner…but that’s all I’ve got. I failed. I failed the blogging photo world. It happens – first time it’s really happened to me, but hey – it won’t be the last.

Honestly, when I made this the first time the day hadn’t gone really well. I was convinced Annie had been invaded by visiting aliens, Andy wouldn’t nap but just wanted to whine all day long, Dottie (the dog) pooped in the basement floor, and I didn’t get anything done – except to make dinner. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Sweet Apple Chutney

When I was pregnant with Annie, I went hog wild and pig crazy over apples. I ate them every day. Yes, plural. Sometimes three a day. I couldn’t get enough. Now, apples and applesauce are one of her favorite foods. With Andy, it was bananas. I would have attacked you over eating my banana – and he LOVES them now too. It’s a good thing I didn’t gorge myself on Skittles and Doritos.

I still love apple dishes. If I come across a recipe with “apple” in the title, I’m always gonna read it. As much as I love them, I don’t care for traditional apple chutney. It usually includes chopped onion and vinegar. I’m sorry, but I just cannot do that with my apples. It seems wrong to me – like I’m cheating on caramel or something. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Lentil Burrito Bowls

Y’all have requested more lentil recipes…and I can understand why. Lentils are just stinkin’ delicious…pun intended? Ha, ha! Beans, beans, the magical fruit! The more you eat the more you…uh, yeah. I digress.

I only have two lentil recipes posted on this site: Buttered Lentils and Lentil Vegetable Soup. Those are both delicious. We love beans around here…and if everyone eats them, any negative effects are cancelled. Can I get a witness?! [Read more…]

Crock Pot Sugar-Free Strawberry Chia Jam

I love jam…namely my Mama’s Strawberry Freezer Jam. I could literally suck that stuff up with a straw. But man alive – as good as it is, it’s chock full of sugar. Most jams are.

Most jams are made with a bunch of sugar, some pectin, and a little bit of fruit. I wanted my jam to be made of mostly fruit, sweetened with stevia, and thickened with something good for me. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Southwest Chicken and Rice Chowder

The first time I ate Southwest Chicken Chowder, I’m pretty sure I cried because it was so wonderful.

I’m not usually this dramatic about my dinner, but at the time, I was three days post-partum with my second son, exhausted, weepy, and starving. And this yummy chowder was a gift from my friend, Kate, who knows that bringing dinner to a new mom is about #3 on the list of “Nicest Things You Can Do for Anyone.”

I have made this many times since then. I don’t always shed tears of joy eating it, but almost. I love that this dish is yummy and allergy-friendly, as we manage multiple food allergies. It’s perfect for rainy days, cold days, hot days, basically any day you need dinner. Which here, is every day. We do not skip dinner. [Read more…]

Easy Crock Pot Vegetables

This isn’t one of those crock pot recipes that you use because you need to leave the house for the day and want dinner ready when you get home. This is one of those “it’s too hot to turn on the oven today but I still want yummy vegetables with my steak” kind of recipes.

Sometimes the crock pot isn’t for long cooking – sometimes it’s for keeping the house cool. Sometimes it’s for making more room on the stove if you’re cooking for a crowd and need that space. Sometimes it’s because your oven is broken. Sometimes it’s because you’re obsessed with your crock pot. [Read more…]