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Dinner Made Easy With Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

September 15, 2016 By Aly 11 Comments

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For dinner tonight, make this delicious Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken. Tender chicken is simmered with honey, garlic, pineapples and soy sauce and served over fluffy brown rice and the best part – the slow cooker does most of the work.

Whenever I’m looking for a dinner that will wow the family but is easy to make for a busy weekday, I often turn to my favorite Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken. It was a recipe I learned early on in my culinary cooking journey, adapting it from a classic AllRecipes.com recipe for slow cooked Honey Garlic Chicken. It’s so simple to whip together early in the morning and when you come home, you are greeted with something that is nothing like you could get from takeout. This is a recipe that you can totally make your own – upping the heat level or, if you like it a bit more sweet – you can add a touch more honey. The pineapple adds another layer of savory sweetness and compliments the tender chicken.

I have made it a myriad of ways over the years and whether you cook if for 4 hours or 8 hours, the chicken is a deep rich molasses hue with the honey ginger soy sauce permeating every delicious bite. Using the chicken thighs makes this recipe totally economical and with a few pantry ingredients, you have a fabulous meal.

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Savory Oatmeal with Bacon, Spinach and Blistered Tomatoes #BaconMonth

August 23, 2016 By Aly 14 Comments

For your next brunch or when you want breakfast for dinner, make this scrumptious Savory Oatmeal with Bacon, Spinach and Blistered Tomatoes

I have a recipe that is perfection for those that love breakfast for dinner – a Savory Oatmeal with Bacon, Spinach and Blistered Tomatoes.

Now – before you give me that side-eye, hear me out. Do you like grits – like cheese grits? What about polenta?

This recipe is a riff on that with a savory oatmeal flavored with thyme and Parmesan cheese and simmered in veggie stock. Easy peasy. I was inspired by some savory oatmeal recipes from Shape Magazine and decided to play. A splash of heavy cream adds a bit of richness and to add even more flavor, I wanted to add some accoutrements like, what else, BACON!…

Orzo With Italian Sausage and Roasted Red Peppers

June 23, 2016 By Aly 10 Comments

For an easy weeknight dinner, make this scrumptious Orzo with Italian Sausage and Roasted Red Peppers – just a few ingredients and a lot of flavor!

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Easy weeknight dinners have been my saving grace the past few weeks and this Orzo with Italian Sausage and Roasted Red Peppers has made multiple appearances on weekly meal plan – it’s that good.

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Pulled Pork Torta

June 9, 2016 By Aly 8 Comments

Have leftover pulled pork – make this delicious Pulled Pork Torta – just a few ingredients and you have dinner on the table in no time!

Disclosure: This recipe originally appeared on Cooking In Stilettos in February of 2011. The recipe has been updated with new photos and any recipe changes that I have incorporated over the years.

Remember that pulled pork with caramelized onions that I wrote about a bit ago? Well, this is the “Round II” version that goes with – a Pulled Pork Torta that is packed with flavor!

Whenever I make pulled pork, I always joke that there are leftovers for days and when I’m looking for something creative to incorporate them in, sometimes I draw a blank. There is something so inspiring about making something from leftovers that you don’t always (and great for the wallet). Thankfully, this recipe makes use of ingredients most of us already have on hand and takes almost no time to make. …

Bourbon Slow Cooked Pulled Pork

May 25, 2016 By Aly 20 Comments

This Bourbon Slow Cooked Pulled Pork is one of my absolute favorite recipes! Tender pork is slow cooked for hours in a smoky rich bourbon sauce that will have your guests singing your praises. This will be your new favorite pulled pork recipe.

Disclosure: This recipe originally appeared on Cooking In Stilettos in October of 2010. The recipe has been updated with new photos and any recipe changes that I have incorporated over the years. This post may contain affiliate links of products that I adore and trust in my kitchen. Thank you for supporting Cooking In Stilettos.

When I made Nigella Lawson’s Bourbon Glazed Ribs way back when, 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! …