Daily Unadventures in Cooking

This recipe was inspired by an old crockpot cookbook. Those old cookbooks can be so funny. Like, seriously, who could possibly go through that much cream of mushroom soup? I have changed pretty much every ingredient to a more natural form, kept the ketchup, and added mushrooms. This is most definitely North American [...]

Remember when lamb shanks and short ribs were cheap because they were peasant food? Yeah me neither, but so I have been told. Luckily, what does work is buying the meats when they are on special, and tossing them in the freezer. I picked up this pack of short ribs for about $5, tossed them [...]

The rich flavors of salty bacon and pungent olives make an easy crockpot chicken recipe something extraordinary.

This chicken tortilla soup is comforting, tangy and easy to make if you have a slow cooker or crock pot. Although it is not necessarily authentic, it is delicious and perfect if you will be out of the house for a few hours.

Every Monday night I have a late meeting with our offshore team and so I try and get organized so I don’t have to cook (or eat crap) on Monday evening. Every week I have the best intentions, but usually this doesn’t so much happen and I end up eating one of Ichiban, takeout or [...]

You know when you throw something together and then it turns out really well? But you didn’t.. say pay attention to what you were doing? Well that is this one. It was a major success in the slow cooker, as far as Beef Stew goes it was perfect. But I didn’t measure anything and [...]

Inspired by my favorite lamb shank recipe with white wine, tomatoes and garlic this has been adapted for the slow cooker or crockpot.

This meal is actually from a few weeks ago as I have definitely fallen behind in my blogging. I recently decided to try and stimulate the half of my brain that is slowly decaying and take a medieval Literature course – very misguided. I am really enjoying it but it eats up a lot [...]

This couldn’t be easier, really it couldn’t. I have done it twice now and both times ended up with the richest, clearest, easiest chicken stock I have ever made. With… wait for it now….. no skimming. I really do hate the skimming.
So here is how it works, put a bunch of chicken [...]

We had the most civilized weeknight meal on monday. Of course in our house it doesn’t take much to make it civilized. First of all dinner must occur before 8 and not in the 10pm region because of a culinary miscalculation. Secondly the meal should be fully balanced – or at least contain healthy portions [...]

One of the cookbooks I got for Christmas was the The Gourmet Slow Cooker. I made the White Bean Chili from it yesterday and was quite impressed. I stuck to the recipe pretty closely except for the liquid, I had less white wine and chicken stock then required so I made up the extra with [...]

These quesadillas are a delicious way to use up leftover pulled pork. Stuff the tortillas with cilantro, red pepper, scallions and spices.