Category: Slow cooker recipes

• I’m as corny as Kansas in August, slow-cooker corn chowder without cheese

  We are covered up in summer squashes and sinking fast. Corn and tomatoes are advancing from the east (the garden). I spend more time in the kitchen these days than at any other time of the year because you can only give away so many zucchini and hot peppers. Stoic and I made two kinds…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 3, 2017

  Seasonal food, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, vegetables

  Chowder, cooking from garden, Corn, Garlic, healthy eating, Thyme

• Easy Mongolian beef for the slow cooker

  Stoic the Vast refills bird feeders daily in this frigid weather. Jays, cardinals, finches, nuthatches, chickadees, flickers, even crows, panic as soon as a few flakes blanket the fields. “Oh, my God, we’ll starve!” you can hear in their incessant, greedy cheeps. We humans are behaving the same — spending an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 9, 2017

  Beef, Chinese food, Meat, Slow cooker recipes

  Carrots, Cutting the sugar, Easy supper entrees, healthy eating, Mushrooms

• Slow-cooker zucchini soup — use 2 pounds of the stuff in a single delicious recipe

  No matter how carefully Stoic the Vast may plan, we always end up with extra yellow summer squash and not enough zucchini. I adore the latter, tolerate the former. Cooked yellow squash feels to me like raw squid must — oogly, googly and slickery. Zucchini, on the other tentacle, is more self-possessed, holds its shape…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 13, 2015

  Cooking from the garden, healthy cooking, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, vegetables

  basil, cooking from garden, healthy eating, Peppers, Sausage, Tomatoes, zucchini

• Time to clean out the old system; easy-breezy tomato-vegetable-beef soup

  Day 7 of a 21-day challenge that looks like this: No chips, no sodas, no diet sodas, no chocolate, no candy, no white bread, no cookies, no fast food, no cakes, pastries or muffins. Right this minute I’m feeling really good because until I looked it up just now to copy the list, I’d thought…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 12, 2015

  Balance, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, Sugar in the diet, Weight loss, Winter

  Carrots, Corn, Ground beef, onions, Peas, Tomatoes

• Smaller plates; butterscotch apple crisp in the slow cooker

  I have a friend who says all she did to lose weight was use small plates at suppertime. I’m married to a former farmer who recognizes small plates as suitable only for dessert — it runs in the genes. In January we were at a convention of farmers at Asheville’s famed Grove Park Inn, and…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 11, 2014

  Desserts, Free will and eating, Fruit, Slow cooker recipes

  apples, butter, cinnamon, oats, The Atlantic, why overeat

• Planet Fatso; tortellini slow-cooker soup

  Elizabeth Taylor in her old age said the elastic waistband was a girl’s best friend. Diet gurus, though, advise “The elastic waistband is bad for your diet” so I’ve been trying to wear real waistbands with buttons and zippers and stuff. And clothes that fit, not caftans suggestive of a camel ride. I feel, in…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 25, 2014

  Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Exercise, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, Weight loss

  cheese, Drew Carey, Elizabeth Taylor, Garfield comic, obesity, Spinach, Tomatoes, Tortellini, why overeat

• A healthy balance; slow-cooker beans and rice

  People magazine’s Harley Pasternak wrote this week about an Iowa high school science teacher who lost almost 40 pounds, eating only at  McDonald’s for 90 days. (That’s 2 months longer than documentarian Morgan Spurlock, who made “Super Size Me” about his experience.). The secret, said Pasternak, was this dieter’s sense of balance. He ate everything…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 11, 2014

  Balance, Beans, Rice, Slow cooker recipes

  Cooking Lite magazine, Fast food, Harley Pasternak, People magazine