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Secret Recipe Club: Slow Cooker Sesame Orange Chicken

April 8, 2013 By 15 Comments
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It's the beginning of April and you know what time it is - time for the Secret Recipe Club's Big Reveal. This month's Secret Recipe Club assignment was a no-brainer for me.  I was lucky to be assigned Edesia's Cookbook - a blog that I absolutely am denatured with.  Lesa is the scribe behind the site and let me tell you - her recipe index had me flagging so many recipes to make for the future but the minute I saw Slow Cooker Sesame Orange Chicken - well, you know I had make it.  Sesame … [Read more...]

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Secret Recipe Club: Slow Cooked Pot Roast With Vegetables

January 7, 2013 By 14 Comments
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I can think of no better way than to kick off the first recipe post of 2013 with a culinary creation from the Secret Recipe Club. This month's top secret assignment was Cookin' Mimi and, like many of my prior Secret Recipe Club assignments had me whining about "I can only pick ONE?"  Mimi has some seriously delicious recipes like her Pumpkin Spice Sweet Rolls, a soul soothing Easy Beef Vegetable Soup,  these intriguing Enchilada Stuffed Shells but it was her  Slow Cooker Pot Roast with … [Read more...]

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Secret Recipe Club: Spiced Apple Butter

August 20, 2012 By 41 Comments
Spiced Apple Butter

Whenever I get my monthly assignment for the Secret Recipe Club, I know I have a delicious mission ahead of me. Like the months prior, this month's mission was a fun one: find and blog about a recipe from Mangia!  Chelsy, a Texan gal, is the mastermind behind Mangia and she has a wonderful outlook on life.  I love her reasoning behind her blog title.  She writes: Mangia means "eat" in Italian. Now, you can't take this word for face value. Mangia means more than eating in the physical sense, … [Read more...]

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Secret Recipe Club: BBQ Beef Sangies

April 23, 2012 By 17 Comments
BBQ Beef Sangies

I can't rave enough about the Secret Recipe Club – there are so many different blogs that have crossed my path because of this and I was so excited to get April's assignment – Ma, What's 4 Dinner? Ma, What's 4 Dinner has some fun recipes that I was really excited to try and it was hard trying just one. I couldn't decide between the Taco Pie, Lentil Soup with Sausage, or the Watermelon Mojito but I finally saw a reason to break out the slow cooker and give these BBQ Beef Sangies a whirl. … [Read more...]

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Tried and True: Slow Cooked Carnitas

February 1, 2012 By 3 Comments
Slow Cooked Carnitas - Deconstructed

My DVR is going to be the death of me. There are certain cooking shows it tapes religiously and Rick Bayless' Mexico – One Plate At A Time is one of them. He recently had a show about carnitas which had me throwing dinner plans out the window. I knew that I had a nice pork roast on hand because I was going to make my favorite Pork Tinga but decided this might be a nice switch. The easiest thing about this slow cooked carnitas recipe   is that most of the work was done in one of my favorite … [Read more...]

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Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon Hits The Spot

November 15, 2011 By 5 Comments
Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon

Beef Bourguignon is one of those recipes that intimidates me. I don’t know why. Perhaps because Julia Child is always associated with this dish.   However, I figured that since there was a version for the slow cooker, perhaps I might give it a shot. I took Mr. Slow Cooker off the fridge – determined to make it earn its keep - and went through the fridge gathering the ingredients.  Thankfully, I always keep frozen pearl onions in the freezer and, before you shoot me, I follow a specific … [Read more...]

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Tried and True: Pulled Pork with Caramelized Onions

January 27, 2011 By 7 Comments
Pulled Pork with Carmelized Onions - Final

Yesterday, if you looked out my back window you would have seen a sheet of white – snow wrapped Philadelphia in a heavy white blanket and showed very little chance of slowing down.  The weather crews were baffled as two storms hit the region, providing the northeast with a "one-two punch."  Many elected to take a snow-day and stay off the roads, including myself.  See, when I lived in New Hampshire, 2 or 4 feet of snow didn't phase me. Apparently, living in Florida for 7 years turned me … [Read more...]

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Bourbon Slow Cooked Pulled Pork

October 21, 2010 By 10 Comments
Bourbon Slow Cooked Pulled Pork - Final

When I made Nigella Lawson's Bourbon Glazed Ribs back in December, little did I know that I would adore this sauce so much that I would try to jazz it up in the slow-cooker.  This will be the ONLY sauce I use for pulled pork for quite some time.  The flavor is phenomenal and this Bourbon Slow Cooked Pulled Pork, served with my poblano rice,  is a winner of a dinner!  Sidenote: the leftover pork makes a killer sandwich the next day! … [Read more...]

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What’s Cookin’ – Chipotle Spiced Shortribs

September 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Check out a great recipe that is perfect for fall weather - Chipotle Spiced Shortribs over at the latest edition of Western Mass Women Magazine. … [Read more...]

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Beat the Heat: Slow Cooker Pork With Pomegranate and Chipotle

July 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Slow Cooker Pork With Pomegrante And Chipotle

The great folks over at POM Wonderful sent over some pomegranate juice for this cook to play with.  With this massive heat wave that engulfed Philly, it was no surprise that the sky said "Enough" and it was torrential downpours that signaled a day of kitchen experimentation.  While the temperature outside has cooled off a tad, I still did not want to use the oven if I could avoid it so it was time to put the slow cooker to use. Last week, I made a ton of chicken stock after reading The Cozy … [Read more...]

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