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Crock Pot Tortellini Chicken Soup

March 9, 2021 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

One of our favorite all-the-time slow cooker soups, tortellini chicken soup! This is a super easy, all-in-one dish with pasta, chicken, and spinach. There's no searing, hardly any chopping, just one Crock Pot, a few hours of waiting, and dinner is done! This is not terrible at ALL with some homemade focaccia with pizza dough for dunking.

Hello and hi and here's dinner!

I absolutely can't believe it, but almost exactly one year ago my sister and brother in law came over and brought dinner, a slow cooker tortellini situation with chicken and tomatoes and cream. It was delicious.

We joked about how school would probably be cancelled starting that Monday (they're both teachers), joked about handwashing, joked about...everything.

About 36 hours later the entire world shut down and we didn't see each other for months.

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Super Easy Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings (with gnocchi!)

November 21, 2017 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup is just like chicken and dumplings with gnocchi as the dumplings! I use bone in, skin on chicken pieces for tons of flavor, but any chicken you have or like works perfectly in this great make ahead winter slow cooker recipe. Make a super easy kale salad to go with this if you'd like!

Because literally no one that I know has time to make dumplings this time of year, and I know people who cook a lot. I cook a lot!

But sometimes cooking to eat is different than long laborious project meals, which are SO much fun but also this time of year maybe not so much. BUT (imma see if I can start every sentence with that word), we still obviously want the food that tastes like it took 8 hours and a touch of your sanity to create, you know? At least I do. Food that cooks for a long time tastes wonderful, has deep flavors, and is so comforting when it's a stew or soup like this is.

Foods like slow cooker chicken and dumplings with GNOCCHI for a little "open package, dump in" energy.

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Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

May 11, 2017 by Lindsay 1 Comment

This slow cooker bbq chicken is so easy and delicious! It's one of our favorite recipes for easy weeknight meal prep and can be used with chicken thighs or chicken breasts - use whatever you have! This can be made with the easy homemade barbecue sauce recipe below or your favorite storebought barbecue sauce!

Because summer!

I've probably mentioned here before that Jay's favorite sauce is barbecue. A cross between tang and sweet, but he'll use the dark red bottled stuff in a pinch. I think that stuff is gross (always too sweet, never spicy), but I do like making my own easy homemade bbq sauce, especially in the summer.

This recipe is nothing earth-shattering, but dumping a bunch of stuff in a slow cooker and letting a sauce form while chicken cooks is a killer trick to have at the end of the school year when you're so.close. to the finish line and it's getting warm and no one has any motivation but also you still need to eat dinner, you know?

Weeknight dinner ideas, I'm here for all of them.

So here goes. Stuff gets dumped in with chicken, you go finish a project that your kid forgot about until just this instant, then you eat a BBQ chicken sandwich because you've earned it. Add a beer or 4 and call it a night.

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Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Beef

April 25, 2017 by Lindsay 5 Comments

aka your new favorite meat aka IT'S ALMOST CINCO DE MAYO!

I have a few other new things on deck for you this holiday (deck = what Beck calls herself these days), but this is probably my favorite new Mexican-inspired dish this year. Mainly for the ease + big flavors it creates. Beer, tomato sauce, and tons of spices make the best drippings, and we toss them with the beef at the end once we shred it.

I also go against my own rule of SLOW COOKER MUST ONLY INCLUDE SLOW COOKER and sear this to almost burnt in a cast iron skillet. It's not always necessary, but for this application I do think it adds some great crusty bits to the finished dish.

Do you Cinco? I honestly can't tell you what we've done the last few years besides make fun new Mexican recipes for the blog or for parties. Going out for the holiday, if you can even call it that, feels exhausting just to plan, but staying in with an entire Crock Pot of beef and case of Corona? Satisfying. I didn't photograph this beef as any one dish intentionally. I made it for a family gathering a few weeks ago and served it with rice, beans, and tortillas with all of the toppings you could possibly think of. Some people made rice bowls, some people made salads or tacos, but the point of this is that the beef was GONE. The only thing on the spread that was totally eaten by the end of the meal was this, which is saying something because we tend to make about a thousand times what we usually need for family gatherings, and none of us eat much red meat.

This beef, though, we eat.

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Crockpot Chicken Taco Soup

May 3, 2016 by Lindsay 1 Comment

Crockpot chicken taco soup with fresh veggies and beans + your own homemade taco seasoning. This soup is super quick to make and keeps really well in the fridge or freezer for leftovers! For a party, make a batch of sour cream guacamole for dipping and scooping on top of this Mexican chicken soup.

IT'S CINCO DE MAYO WEEK IT'S CINCO DE MAYO WEEK!!!

I really like Mexican food, is what I'm trying to say. Mexican and Indian are two food types that I could truly eat every day without getting sick of it.

It's getting warmer here, but I know there are some of you that are still chilly, and I'm not one of those people that's averse to warm, cozy foods when it's warm out. I also love a good make ahead crock pot meal so....everyone wins! This chili has veg, beans, chili, and tons of spices that make the broth really delicious.

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Slow Cooker Chicken Chowder

November 16, 2015 by Lindsay 2 Comments

Ok so here's what you need to make this week.

And next week.

And every week until it gets warm again because 1. it's easy, 2. it's delicious, and 3. cheese.

This was actually inspired by my friend Nathan, who sent me a message one morning and was all "do you have a recipe for chicken chowder?" and I was all "I didn't know that was a thing." And then I proceeded to rattle off what I WOULD do if I was making chicken chowder in a slow cooker, had I known that was a thing.

And then I thought about it all week and MADE IT and it turned out way better than I ever could have expected. I just kind of went with a standard broth-based-but-with-dairy version of chowder with chicken instead of any kind of seafood. I used SUPER simple ingredients because this time of year I feel like the fancy stuff has to be reserved for parties and gifts and holidays, and the rest of the time you really need simple things that are balanced and comforting and EASY.

Enter the slow cooker. And cheese.
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Crock Pot Vegan Moroccan Vegetables

March 31, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

This super easy Moroccan vegetable stew is vegan, dairy free, and made in the slow cooker for a super easy and healthy weeknight dinner option! Try it with some quinoa or couscous on top for some added protein and nutrition.

In an effort to try to maintain some kind of cognitive ability in this world where we don't have to memorize anything anymore, if a word comes up as misspelled when I'm writing I don't right click to see the correct spelling. Instead, I backspace and type the word again until it's spelled right.

Except for Moroccan. I tried three times and just failed.

So, the point is that I suck at spelling but I try and that's half the battle?

Cognitive failures aside, this vegan Moroccan vegetable stew is a WINNER. It's healthy, easy, and full of flavor. I love meals like this that are light but still somehow cozy at this time when the seasons are still changing but there are definitely still some cold mornings and nights BUT we start to realize that a whole winter of comfort food means JUST SAY NO TO BATHING SUITS so we really need to eat our veggies. And this is a happy medium! Ridiculously healthy but not straight up raw veggies.

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