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| Need to detox from the holiday? Make some mulligatawny soup. |
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Showing posts with label slow cooker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow cooker. Show all posts
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Mulligatawny Detox Soup
and let it simmer for the afternoon, filling your kitchen with a comforting aroma that feels like one big hug.Read >>
Mulligatawny Detox Soup
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| Need to detox from the holiday? Make some mulligatawny soup. |
and let it simmer for the afternoon, filling your kitchen with a comforting aroma that feels like one big hug.Read >>
Monday, May 3, 2010
Curried Carrot Soup with Pan Toasted Cornbread Croutons
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| Easy {slow cooker} carrot soup topped with cornbread croutons. |
What I love about slow cookers? The obvious. It's a no-brainer. (Such an odd expression. I mean, if I had no brain would I care about soup?) Wait. Are zombies no-brainers? If so, I can relate. Totally. I've been feeling zombie-ish again, assaulted by the second wave of pollinating hostile trees here in my hip little hamlet of Santa Monica by the sea. Excuse me while I honk.
The dreaded oak. My nemesis.
In spite of hopeful neti pot
usage I am brainless once again. Shambling. Screwing up paintings. Too tipsy for kettlebells (I visualize my zombie-pitiful grip during a swing, letting the kettlebell fly out my fifth floor aprtment window like a missile and knocking out some poor soul in the street below; if you read about a kettlebell incident in the news, I swear I'm innocent).
usage I am brainless once again. Shambling. Screwing up paintings. Too tipsy for kettlebells (I visualize my zombie-pitiful grip during a swing, letting the kettlebell fly out my fifth floor aprtment window like a missile and knocking out some poor soul in the street below; if you read about a kettlebell incident in the news, I swear I'm innocent).And craving comfort food in a big way.
That is, easy comfort food. Not complicated comfort food. Who wants to stand at a stove right before dinnertime, chopping and stirring and simmering, when you can chop and toss in the morning and let a Crockpot
do the work for you? Zip. Boom. Bonjour! The slow cooker must have been invented by a woman, right? Or maybe a zombie who had better things to do than sauté.
do the work for you? Zip. Boom. Bonjour! The slow cooker must have been invented by a woman, right? Or maybe a zombie who had better things to do than sauté.Free time. It's a gift.
Ask any zombie.
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Curried Carrot Soup with Pan Toasted Cornbread Croutons
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| Easy {slow cooker} carrot soup topped with cornbread croutons. |
What I love about slow cookers? The obvious. It's a no-brainer. (Such an odd expression. I mean, if I had no brain would I care about soup?) Wait. Are zombies no-brainers? If so, I can relate. Totally. I've been feeling zombie-ish again, assaulted by the second wave of pollinating hostile trees here in my hip little hamlet of Santa Monica by the sea. Excuse me while I honk.
The dreaded oak. My nemesis.
In spite of hopeful neti pot usage I am brainless once again. Shambling. Screwing up paintings. Too tipsy for kettlebells (I visualize my zombie-pitiful grip during a swing, letting the kettlebell fly out my fifth floor aprtment window like a missile and knocking out some poor soul in the street below; if you read about a kettlebell incident in the news, I swear I'm innocent).
usage I am brainless once again. Shambling. Screwing up paintings. Too tipsy for kettlebells (I visualize my zombie-pitiful grip during a swing, letting the kettlebell fly out my fifth floor aprtment window like a missile and knocking out some poor soul in the street below; if you read about a kettlebell incident in the news, I swear I'm innocent).And craving comfort food in a big way.
That is, easy comfort food. Not complicated comfort food. Who wants to stand at a stove right before dinnertime, chopping and stirring and simmering, when you can chop and toss in the morning and let a Crockpot do the work for you? Zip. Boom. Bonjour! The slow cooker must have been invented by a woman, right? Or maybe a zombie who had better things to do than sauté.
do the work for you? Zip. Boom. Bonjour! The slow cooker must have been invented by a woman, right? Or maybe a zombie who had better things to do than sauté.Free time. It's a gift.
Ask any zombie.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Gluten-Free Turkey Soup Recipe
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An easy, homemade turkey soup simmered in a Crock Pot . |
A certain soup slurping and prickly individual (we won't name names, to protect the innocent) has been feeling under the weather for so long now the sensation is in danger of becoming a habit. Yes, the tree pollen onslaught continues. Blessed by a wet winter, Southern California trees are celebrating with copious amounts of pollen, and who can blame them?
Hence, your intrepid gluten-free goddess has been up to no good, stumbling and mumbling around her freshly painted apartment in a Snuffleupagus
stupor, thick-nosed and unable to string two coherent sentences together, never mind invent a new recipe for her lovely and devoted readers (that would be, You). Ears and sinuses filled with unspeakable things do not a creative, exhuberant cook make.
stupor, thick-nosed and unable to string two coherent sentences together, never mind invent a new recipe for her lovely and devoted readers (that would be, You). Ears and sinuses filled with unspeakable things do not a creative, exhuberant cook make.This is when a Slow Cooker
can save your life.
can save your life.Gluten-Free Turkey Soup Recipe
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An easy, homemade turkey soup simmered in a Crock Pot . |
A certain soup slurping and prickly individual (we won't name names, to protect the innocent) has been feeling under the weather for so long now the sensation is in danger of becoming a habit. Yes, the tree pollen onslaught continues. Blessed by a wet winter, Southern California trees are celebrating with copious amounts of pollen, and who can blame them?
Hence, your intrepid gluten-free goddess has been up to no good, stumbling and mumbling around her freshly painted apartment in a Snuffleupagus stupor, thick-nosed and unable to string two coherent sentences together, never mind invent a new recipe for her lovely and devoted readers (that would be, You). Ears and sinuses filled with unspeakable things do not a creative, exhuberant cook make.
stupor, thick-nosed and unable to string two coherent sentences together, never mind invent a new recipe for her lovely and devoted readers (that would be, You). Ears and sinuses filled with unspeakable things do not a creative, exhuberant cook make.This is when a Slow Cooker can save your life.
can save your life.Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Our Favorite Gluten-Free Chili
Our favorite gluten-free chili- hearty winter comfort.
FADE IN:
INT. 5TH FLOOR APARTMENT - DAY
A chilly winter light slices into a SANTA MONICA apartment and illuminates every cobweb. (Obviously, a certain individual has been neglecting house work again). Said individual sighs audibly. Glances sideways into the mirror hanging above the kitchen sink cluttered with coffee spoons, grilled cornbread crumbs and half-filled tea mugs. She could never pass for Martha Stewart. Not in a million years.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
Good gravy. Look at all the dust balls.
STEVE (HUSBAND)
So what. What's a dust bunny or two?
(glancing up from his laptop)
I’ll vacuum later. Or next Tuesday.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
This calls for chili.
FADE TO BLACK
Our Favorite Gluten-Free Chili
Our favorite gluten-free chili- hearty winter comfort.
FADE IN:
INT. 5TH FLOOR APARTMENT - DAY
A chilly winter light slices into a SANTA MONICA apartment and illuminates every cobweb. (Obviously, a certain individual has been neglecting house work again). Said individual sighs audibly. Glances sideways into the mirror hanging above the kitchen sink cluttered with coffee spoons, grilled cornbread crumbs and half-filled tea mugs. She could never pass for Martha Stewart. Not in a million years.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
Good gravy. Look at all the dust balls.
STEVE (HUSBAND)
So what. What's a dust bunny or two?
(glancing up from his laptop)
I’ll vacuum later. Or next Tuesday.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
This calls for chili.
FADE TO BLACK
Friday, September 11, 2009
Roasted Hatch Chile Stew Recipe with Sweet Potato, Corn + Lime
Scrumptious slow cooker stew with roasted chiles, sweet potato and lime
Ho-la! It's that time of year again. The annual roasted Hatch chile madness is upon us here in chile blessed New Mexico. You can smell the intoxicating smoky-sweet scent of roasting green chiles everywhere you go. Even Walmart. Seriously. There's a roaster out front in the baking hot Espanola Walmart parking lot as we speak, firing it up, doing his New Mexican green chile roasting thing, turning his dented blackened barrel over a fire. Wiping his brow. Slugging down his cola. People are lined up waiting for their batch. Inside the store's entrance stacks of crated fresh chiles dominate the floor space like so many Stanley Kubrick obelisks (cue music
).
).If you live in Nuevo Mexico, you worship at the Sacred Temple of the Holy Chile Pepper.
The devotion to roasted chile runs deep in these parts and yes, it's with an e never with an i; if you call chile chili in these parts you may as well kiss your white bread tuchas good-bye, pendajo, because you'll be laughed out of the state. Shunned. Scorned. These folks get very serious about their autumn roasted chile. Don't mess with 'em.
It's harvest time.
Read >> It's harvest time.
Roasted Hatch Chile Stew Recipe with Sweet Potato, Corn + Lime
Scrumptious slow cooker stew with roasted chiles, sweet potato and lime
Ho-la! It's that time of year again. The annual roasted Hatch chile madness is upon us here in chile blessed New Mexico. You can smell the intoxicating smoky-sweet scent of roasting green chiles everywhere you go. Even Walmart. Seriously. There's a roaster out front in the baking hot Espanola Walmart parking lot as we speak, firing it up, doing his New Mexican green chile roasting thing, turning his dented blackened barrel over a fire. Wiping his brow. Slugging down his cola. People are lined up waiting for their batch. Inside the store's entrance stacks of crated fresh chiles dominate the floor space like so many Stanley Kubrick obelisks (cue music).
).If you live in Nuevo Mexico, you worship at the Sacred Temple of the Holy Chile Pepper.
The devotion to roasted chile runs deep in these parts and yes, it's with an e never with an i; if you call chile chili in these parts you may as well kiss your white bread tuchas good-bye, pendajo, because you'll be laughed out of the state. Shunned. Scorned. These folks get very serious about their autumn roasted chile. Don't mess with 'em.
It's harvest time.
Read >> It's harvest time.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Big Easy Chili- and some super recipes
Big easy soup with beans and spicy sausage.
I'm back from our jaunt to Los Angeles- an impromptu trip that was over far too quickly (where does time fly to, by the way? They say time flies but I always want to know, where?). I have a handful of juicy details to report, and I will, in an upcoming post, but today is apparently sort of a big deal.
There's a game goin' on? And rumor has it, today's a big chili day. So I am reprising a big easy chili recipe and sharing a link to Whole Foods- for healthy and tasty vegan and gluten-free menu ideas and recipes for pot lucks and Super Bowl parties. Me?
I'll be doing laundry. Lots of laundry.
There's a game goin' on? And rumor has it, today's a big chili day. So I am reprising a big easy chili recipe and sharing a link to Whole Foods- for healthy and tasty vegan and gluten-free menu ideas and recipes for pot lucks and Super Bowl parties. Me?
I'll be doing laundry. Lots of laundry.
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Big Easy Chili- and some super recipes
Big easy soup with beans and spicy sausage.
I'm back from our jaunt to Los Angeles- an impromptu trip that was over far too quickly (where does time fly to, by the way? They say time flies but I always want to know, where?). I have a handful of juicy details to report, and I will, in an upcoming post, but today is apparently sort of a big deal.
There's a game goin' on? And rumor has it, today's a big chili day. So I am reprising a big easy chili recipe and sharing a link to Whole Foods- for healthy and tasty vegan and gluten-free menu ideas and recipes for pot lucks and Super Bowl parties. Me?
I'll be doing laundry. Lots of laundry.
There's a game goin' on? And rumor has it, today's a big chili day. So I am reprising a big easy chili recipe and sharing a link to Whole Foods- for healthy and tasty vegan and gluten-free menu ideas and recipes for pot lucks and Super Bowl parties. Me?
I'll be doing laundry. Lots of laundry.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
African Sweet Potato Soup with Peanut Butter, Black-Eyed Peas & Beans
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| A scrumptious peanut soup recipe - gluten and dairy-free. |
Happy New Year, Gentle Reader. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. And it's time for a black-eyed pea recipe. One of my favorites, with African flavors. Serving black-eyed peas and beans at the start of a freshly birthed year is serious good mojo in some circles. At least that's what they tell me. Why eating a plate of legumes on New Year's Day brings luck I've no idea, but someone somewhere decided these humble little nuggets of vegan protein were a good and fortunate culinary choice. So why not?
Rather than rummage through cookbooks searching for Southern Hoppin' John recipes or Italian white bean escarole stews I turned instead to the sun drenched flavors of North Africa and reprised a stew that is spicy and hearty and peanutty. If you cannot use peanut butter try sunflower seed butter
. It is no less fabulous.
. It is no less fabulous.African Sweet Potato Soup with Peanut Butter, Black-Eyed Peas & Beans
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| A scrumptious peanut soup recipe - gluten and dairy-free. |
Happy New Year, Gentle Reader. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. And it's time for a black-eyed pea recipe. One of my favorites, with African flavors. Serving black-eyed peas and beans at the start of a freshly birthed year is serious good mojo in some circles. At least that's what they tell me. Why eating a plate of legumes on New Year's Day brings luck I've no idea, but someone somewhere decided these humble little nuggets of vegan protein were a good and fortunate culinary choice. So why not?
Rather than rummage through cookbooks searching for Southern Hoppin' John recipes or Italian white bean escarole stews I turned instead to the sun drenched flavors of North Africa and reprised a stew that is spicy and hearty and peanutty. If you cannot use peanut butter try sunflower seed butter. It is no less fabulous.
. It is no less fabulous.Monday, December 29, 2008
Cranberry Buffalo Roast Stew
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| A hearty gluten-free Crock Pot stew to warm your celiac soul. |
What could be more comforting as we face the chilly New Year than a slow roasted one-dish supper? Not to mention, easier. Especially after all the hustle and bustle of last week's holiday celebrations. All the sugar. And latkes. And eggnog. And hoopla. I'm exhausted just imagining it. So I'll stop. And share a recipe instead- a tasty little number I tossed together in my trusty Crock Pot over the weekend- a cranberry laced stew that cooked its sweet 'n savory heart out while I worked on creating more print-friendly recipes for you.
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Cranberry Buffalo Roast Stew
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| A hearty gluten-free Crock Pot stew to warm your celiac soul. |
What could be more comforting as we face the chilly New Year than a slow roasted one-dish supper? Not to mention, easier. Especially after all the hustle and bustle of last week's holiday celebrations. All the sugar. And latkes. And eggnog. And hoopla. I'm exhausted just imagining it. So I'll stop. And share a recipe instead- a tasty little number I tossed together in my trusty Crock Pot over the weekend- a cranberry laced stew that cooked its sweet 'n savory heart out while I worked on creating more print-friendly recipes for you.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Moroccan Coconut & Chick Pea Soup
A delicious gluten-free soup with Moroccan flavors
On a whim I threw together this North African inspired fusion of flavors led by cravings and intuition. We slurped it down and scraped our bowls. Turns out that sweet potatoes, chick peas, roasted green chiles and coconut milk make for one scrumptious soup. I think you'll love it.
Dairy-free never tasted so good.
Dairy-free never tasted so good.
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Moroccan Coconut & Chick Pea Soup
A delicious gluten-free soup with Moroccan flavors
On a whim I threw together this North African inspired fusion of flavors led by cravings and intuition. We slurped it down and scraped our bowls. Turns out that sweet potatoes, chick peas, roasted green chiles and coconut milk make for one scrumptious soup. I think you'll love it.
Dairy-free never tasted so good.
Dairy-free never tasted so good.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Roasted Corn Chowder with Chicken, Lime + Cilantro
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| Roasted corn chowder with chicken is a fabulous soup. |
An easy family favorite- my roasted corn chowder with tender pieces of chicken, a dash of fresh lime juice and mild green chiles- is a perfect recipe for early fall. Because nothing is quite as sweet as savoring the last fresh corn of the season. And the perfect accent to these southwestern flavors? Cilantro.
As always, Babycakes, if you don't care for cilantro just leave it out. Use fresh basil or parsley. And while we're talking changes, if you're not a fan of coconut milk and you'd rather use traditional moo cow milk in your chowder, Darling, feel free. Be happy.
Note: This recipe was originally entered into Kalyn's Kitchen Weekend Herb Blogging event: Your Favorite Herb. I've since updated the recipe, and it's better than ever.
Read >> Roasted Corn Chowder with Chicken, Lime + Cilantro
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| Roasted corn chowder with chicken is a fabulous soup. |
An easy family favorite- my roasted corn chowder with tender pieces of chicken, a dash of fresh lime juice and mild green chiles- is a perfect recipe for early fall. Because nothing is quite as sweet as savoring the last fresh corn of the season. And the perfect accent to these southwestern flavors? Cilantro.
As always, Babycakes, if you don't care for cilantro just leave it out. Use fresh basil or parsley. And while we're talking changes, if you're not a fan of coconut milk and you'd rather use traditional moo cow milk in your chowder, Darling, feel free. Be happy.
Note: This recipe was originally entered into Kalyn's Kitchen Weekend Herb Blogging event: Your Favorite Herb. I've since updated the recipe, and it's better than ever.
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