I haven’t decided yet if it should be crockpot or crock pot.  I’ve seen both spellings in different online dictionaries, but my spellchecker doesn’t like crockpot, so I think I’ll go with crock pot, what do you think?  Anyway, this crock pot stew recipe is so simple to make and pretty tasty.  It’s a Greek stew that uses the chopped butternut squash from Wednesday’s tutorial.  My favorite part of the recipe was left out of the photo above, and it’s the feta sprinkled over the top at the end.  Whoops! Read more

Here’s a quick round up of some healthy easy snack options for Super Bowl food.  My goal for Super Bowl recipes is basically to not need silverware.  If I’m focused on the big game, I want to just be able to move my hand to my mouth without having to concentrate on a fork or spoon.  I know, very cro-magnon of me!  But I also don’t want to eat a ton of fattening chips, dips, little wieners, and other typical game foods that leave me feeling sick by the end of the fourth quarter.  Each of these snacks are healthy, EASY, options for your Super Bowl party food. Read more

Taco Soup is my favorite soup recipe and one of my absolute favorite crockpot recipes!  Whenever a friend has a baby or is in the hospital we deliver this for the family.  It freezes so well  that I’ve eaten it six months after making a batch. This taco soup recipe is so cheap to make that even a family surviving on food stamps can afford it.  Wondering what food stamps have to do with it?  Read on!

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Have you ever heard of rainbow carrots?  I hadn’t until I found out we would get some in our CSA.  As we walked the rows our very first week, when there was nothing but rhubarb and greens, Nels and Becky told us what each plant would be and we laughed when they said rainbow carrots.  “Rainbow?”  “Yep, not just orange, rainbow.”  I promptly forgot that little bit of information until we got our first carrots a couple weeks ago and they came in a myriad of pretty colors.  I decided that since my swiss chard soup was such a huge success, I’d try making soup with carrots too.  This carrot soup was so creamy and rich, you’d think it was full of tons of butter and cream, but it’s not!  Just 1/2 TBS butter and 2% milk.  So it’s rich and healthy.

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The last time we were in Sam’s Club they had a 12 pack of organic andouille sausage for only $6.  I got really excited since I’ve recently discovered that organic pork doesn’t make me sick, and it was so cheap and could feed us for several meals.  I put most of them in the freezer but saved some out to play with.  I began surveying our fridge and pantry and decided to make jambalaya.  In case you didn’t know, Jambalaya is a Creole dish from Louisiana.  I believe it’s influenced by both Spanish and French cuisines.  It started as an attempt to make Paella with what ingredients were available.  I call mine Kapakahi Jambalaya because it’s created with what ingredients I had on hand and in no way authentic.  Kapakahi means “mixed up” in Hawaiian.

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