slow cooker

I think we can all agree, there's just nothing like Mom's home cookin'. It just tastes better, doesn't it? For that reason I've asked my Mom to submit some of her favorite recipes for me to share ...

The inspiration for this soup came from my husband. He has been asking me for years to make him beer cheese soup. Truth be told, I had never heard of it, and never even attempted making it for him. When Progresso asked me to come up with some recipes using their new Three Cheese...

Here's another recipe that's great for entertaining. It can be made ahead of time, it keeps well warm, and it's easy for guests to serve themselves. You'll notice that I don't have any photos of the actual sliders, This went over so well that people re...

  Inspired by Make the Bread, Buy the Butter and adapted from Good Cheap Eats.  There are several reasons to make your own spaghetti sauce: You want all the ingredients to be pronounceable To avoid added sugar (No, really! Check the label....

Right now in Northern California and pretty much everywhere in American its grilling season. This is the time of the year Hasani loves to grill. He grills, ribs (pork & beef) hot links, hot dogs, burgers. I love when he grills too :) He's gotten so...

Blueberry-lavender butter requires a little experience with canning, but the results are worth it.Makes 3 1/2 pints Recipe from Stephanie Nuccitelli, whose blog, 52 Kitchen Adventures (www.52kitchenadventures.com), is a Sac Connect partner ...

If you’re a longtime fan of 52 Kitchen Adventures, you probably remember Slow Cooker Mondays. I haven’t posted any slow cooker recipes in a while, although if you’re looking for more of these recipes, see all of mine on my page of Slow Cooker Recipes. Today isn’t Monday, but Monday was a holiday and...

By Ashley Bradley My family has been making these beans for BBQs since I was just a kid – and now I make them for my BBQs. Since this is a “pinch of this and a dab of that”  kind of recipe, I’ve tried to gauge all of the ingredients accordingly. This recipe is meant...

Did you know that I have a brand spankin’ new Facebook page? I do. It is so cute, it hurts. I realized that making a Facebook fan page so-cute-that-it-hurts was above my skill set, so I did what any girl would do, I hired out. (The girls at Tarte are amazing. I highly recommend...

I don’t know why people think that lasagna is hard to make. Even when making it the traditional way, it is really all about assembling. This version is made in the slow cooker, and it could not be easier. I made this one as simply as I could. Cheese, pasta, and, sauce. Throw it...