Category Archives: Dinner
A meal intended for gathering friends and family around to table, these recipes are certain to please a crowd and the cook.
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Crock Pot Thai Chicken soup
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes.One of my favorite new indulgences is Thai food. I started a few years ago with Pad Thai. It’s like the thai version of lomein, which is really just a step above the college-grade ramen noodle. But it started to introduce me to new flavors. Then, I moved up and through a few of the […]
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Crock Pot Vegetarian Lasagna
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes, vegetarian.I love lasagna! Anytime you can combine everything into one dish and it hits pretty much every food group, then I’m a happy girl. But oven-baked lasagna takes way too much work… all the boiling and layering and smoothing and baking and spilling, then oven cleaning… I would rather just order lasagna from a nice […]
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Crock Pot Thai Chicken Wraps
Posted on by Valerie in Appetizer, Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes.Tonight is open house at my son’s school and the timing makes dinner as a family tough. So, it is going to be date night instead— but eating out is expensive, so I’ll feed the kids early and then us parents can eat when we get home (and the kids are sleeping!). But since I’m not sure […]
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Crock Pot Marsala Pears
Posted on by Valerie in Appetizer, Breakfast, Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes, vegetarian.Lately, I’ve been more interested in making crock pot desserts. I think it’s the farthest thing from what grandma used to make– this amazing kitchen appliance is meant for more than just soup and meat! I have a couple pounds of fresh seckel pears. They are still firm and their skins are colorful and fragrant […]
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Crock Pot Curried Sweet Potatoes
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes, vegetarian.This recipe was a huge hit last night! Even the kids liked it. It’s flavorful and when all these flavors fuse together, it’s an amazing combination. These are not your candied Thanksgiving yams by any degree. When the coconut milk and curry gets a chance to melt into the sweet potatoes, the sweet smokiness will […]
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Crock Pot Cowpea Soup
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes, Uncategorized, vegetarian.Most of you probably just read the title of this recipe and giggled. Yes, cowpea sounds a lot like cow pie. In fact, cow pee makes it seem even more funny. So if you haven’t heard of a cowpea before, let me tell you a little about it. But seriously, you can stop giggling now. Cowpeas […]
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Crock Pot Tortellini Soup
Posted on by Valerie in Appetizer, Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes, vegetarian.The title of this recipe is a lie. This isn’t a soup. But it’s not a stew and it’s not just a pasta main course, so I don’t know what else to call it. Technically, it does have broth in it, so therefore I qualify it as a soup. And since it’s my blog, I […]
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Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes.Happy birthday to my husband. He is an amazing man, father, lover and friend. And he loves my cooking. So for tonight, I wanted to make him a nice dinner. But of course, I still have the kids to take care of today, a house to clean before company and a dog that is begging […]
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Crock Pot Cabbage and Onions
Posted on by Valerie in Dinner, Recipes, Side dishes, vegetarian.My family has requested perogies for dinner tonight and as much as I’d like to try to make them homemade, that just isn’t going to happen. So I figured if our main dish at dinner is from a frozen blue box, then our side dishes should be fresh and flavorful. Perogies are an amazing Polish […]
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