slow cooker
5 Revamped Vegan Breakfasts. Recipe #1: Slow Cooker Multigrain Pudding
When switching over to the new site, I couldn’t help but browse through some of my very early posts. Yikes. Some of the recipes really needed tweaking and new photography. So just for fun, I’ve …
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Vegan Slow Cooking for Two Blog Tour, Giveaway, & Vanilla Fig Oatmeal
I call it kind of brand loyalty. Here’s what I mean: whenever Kate Bush releases an album (and the good Lord knows she doesn’t do it often enough), I buy it. Just as I’ll read …
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Other People’s Food 7: The Comfort Food Edition
If you had to pick the ultimate comfort food, what would it be? Pot pie? A spicy curry? Macaroni and cheese? Or maybe hot cocoa (hot cocoa sounds more comforting than hot chocolate) or a …
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Giving it Away: The Vegan Slow Cooker
I’m celebrating my blog’s one year birthday (which was October 21) by giving away a copy of Kathy Hester’s cookbook, The Slow Cooker Vegan. I won’t be giving away my much-used copy, however. Kathy has …
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Earl of Chai (Another Hot Drink From the Slow Cooker)
Daytime temperatures have reached (scarily) into the upper 70s and lower 80s here, turning my cooking thoughts to cool salads, quick sandwiches and juices – ways to avoid turning on the oven. (If this is …
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Tale of Two Tortilla Soups
This is a hybrid, a Frankensoup of two delicious, hearty recipes: one a quick version easily put together with a few pantry items; the other an all-day, slow-cooker affair. I often turn to The Moosewood …
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Maple Pumpkin Spice Latte (for the Slow Cooker)
As soon as I cracked open The Vegan Slow Cooker, by Kathy Hester, I knew I’d be spending a lot of time with this cookbook. Yeah, there are the crock pot standards, the soups, the …
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Slow-Cooker (Un)Refried Beans
A good friend of mine shared the link to this easy recipe for “refried” beans prepared in a crock-pot and it was so good, I had to further spread the word. After 6-8 hours, the …
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Slow-Cooker Curried Garbanzo Beans and Kale
The blueprint for this simple, slow-cooker recipe comes from Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, my current cookbook bible. The original recipe has this prepared in a pressure cooker, an …
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Slow-Cooker Gingery Red Lentils
Recipes don’t come much easier than this one – and definitely not for the complexity of flavor that ends up in your bowl. There are only 7 ingredients. You put everything in a crock-pot and …
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Slow-Cooker Rice Pudding
What is the matter with Mary Jane? She’s perfectly well and hasn’t a pain, And it’s lovely rice pudding for dinner again! What is the matter with Mary Jane? – A.A. Milne I suppose if …
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