From the category archives:

Crockpot

Crockpot Caramel Sauce Cooked in a Can

My goal was to make dulce de leche, a South American sweet spread. Traditional recipes boil milk, sugar, vanilla bean for some time, then strain, lots of sticky work. People also boil or bake sealed cans of sweetened condensed milk immersed in water, bringing to mind the thought of potential explosions. Then I discovered blogger [...]

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Crockpot Overnight Apple Oatmeal

I’m just thrilled with the fact that steel cut oatmeal can be easy to make. Waking up to the aroma of hot cinnamon and apples is lovely — breakfast is ready even before the coffee perks! This recipe includes fruit and nuts, healthy.

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Plain, Simple, Versatile Cooked Shredded Chicken

“This is a recipe?” you may ask. Well, no, but it’s a favorite technique of mine to tackle a few things simultaneously on a leisurely Sunday, my happy cooking day. Chicken parts were a very good price this week, frugal friends. Sunday morning, I threw two pounds of them into the crockpot with two bay [...]

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Green Turkey Chili

Even in summer, the Crockpot works overtime here. In fact, we get all the little appliances together and set the rice cooker to finish simultaneously. Yesterday, Larry and I hit a 5 PM movie and when we walked in the door, dinner practically served itself. We ate this Green Turkey Chili with a scoop of [...]

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Sour Cherry Rice Pudding

A few years back, our friends Vicki and Rich made a yummy discovery: a store in New York City called Rice to Riches sold rice pudding. Really excellent rice pudding. Rich then noticed he could order it for delivery to Los Angeles. One dinner party, they brought us a mouthwatering bucket of the good stuff. [...]

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Homemade Chicken Stock

I’m not a slave to homemade stock, but I make it when I have the “stuff” that goes into it. Once you do a batch, you will LOVE it. Today’s is earmarked for Vietnamese Pho Soup which requires a special (but totally worthwhile) trip to the local Asian market for “sticks and leaves,” as Larry [...]

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Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup

This recipe post is being updated for our current almost-winter season. The weather here in LA only got cold this week, so last night’s dinner was steaming homemade chicken noodle soup in the attempt to warm us from the inside-out. If you own a crockpot, print this frugal, filling recipe.

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Fresh Homemade Applesauce in the Crockpot

Those two apples were not getting eaten. And the bruised lemon was one I found on the ground under our tree. It is a sin to buy a lemon if you live in LA; there is always a neighbor’s tree with lots of fruit within reach of the sidewalk (we ask permission – most of [...]

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