This classic from the archives is just what the doctor ordered to beat the snow storms that have been pounding the North East. Plug in the slow-cooker, pop your ingredients in the pot, and wait for the beautiful aroma to fill the room. Strangely, this recipe is equally at home in the hot summer months because it doesn't heat up the kitchen courtesy of it's slow-cooker preparation. I'm going to go ahead and say right now that I have absolutely zero idea how authentically "Cajun" today's recipe is, having never actually been to the great state of Louisana. All I know is that there are few things more satisfying than a big bowl of cooked View Post
Slow-Cooker Ropa Vieja {Cuban Saucy Shredded Beef}
Today is a big day for me! I'm spending the day getting certified as a barreFit instructor. While I'm sweating it out in the studio, I want to share this fantastic recipe for Ropa Vieja that was inspired by my time in Miami last month. Take advantage of the slow-cooker to turn out this saucy, shredded, salty, sweet Cuban Classic flank steak preparation. Serve with some hot, cooked rice, a shower of fresh cilantro, and some lime wedges for squeezing and and feel like you've been transported to Miami! You know that trip I took to Miami last month? This will come as no surprise to most of you, but my awesome roomies (Mary and Meseidy) I ate View Post
Slow-Cooker Spicy Bacon Corn Dip
You may have noticed that I have a snack fixation. My recipe index certainly reflects it. I just can't help myself around snacks. There's something so profoundly satisfying to me in nibbling the day away. In fact, if I had to choose to give up meals or snacks, I'd TOTALLY keep snacks any day of the week. Yeah, it's probably a borderline clinical obsession. When I can take a snack and make it do double duty as a side dish? Even better! Such is the case with today's dip. Oh this dip. OH THIS DIP, PEOPLE! It's almost sinfully easy and it's DEFINITELY habit-formingly good. Let's go backward and talk about why it's so ever-loving tasty View Post
Slow-Cooker Garlicky Lamb and Greek Tacos | Make Ahead Monday
In preparation for the Super Bowl next Sunday, I'm running a three-day Taco series. They're easy, they're delicious, they're customizable, they're crowd-pleasing. In short, they're the perfect game food. Tomorrow, I'll be serving up a vegetarian taco and Wednesday will be the taco no one saw coming. Mwahahahaha! I've been on a taco kick lately. Okay, truthfully? I've been on a taco kick my entire life. I guess it's just been more pronounced lately. But honest-to-goodness people, what isn't to love about tacos? It's good stuff wrapped in good stuff topped with good stuff then eaten with your hands. Win, win, win, WIN! Tacos aren't ALL View Post
Slow-Cooker Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas
I think it's been so long since I've been sick that my body forgot how to go about being sick. It's not a complaint mind you, just an observation. I spent a day with a weird headache and sore throat of the move-slowly-through-the-day variety, went to bed with an ibuprofen cocktail and woke up with a good old-fashioned cold. And so I plopped myself on the chair with a cuppa tea, dictated school lessons from my chair and plotted all the comforting foods I was going to inhale that day because my nose wasn't doing any inhaling and part of me had to keep the process going. I prioritized; nothing too complicated for energy and dish View Post
(Classic) Slow-Cooker Cuban Pork | Make Ahead Mondays Highlight
Back in March of 2009, this blogging novice posted a recipe that remains one of the most popular ever here on Foodie With Family. And let me tell you, it deserves every bit of its popularity. Slow-Cooked Cuban Pork is one of those crazy recipes that somehow manages to be dead simple, insanely inexpensive, habit-formingly delicious, almost infinitely customizable, and wickedly versatile. This is the original Foodie With Family unicorn recipe. A testament to how fabulous this recipe actually is is the fact that so many of you made it even though I split the recipe into two different posts and made you go to two places to print it. View Post
Slow-Cooker Cola Pulled Pork and Carnitas Rice Bowls | Make Ahead Mondays
Let me tell you about last week. It was busy. Oh, it was biz-ay. B to the HOLY-COW-HOW-WILL-I-GET-ALL-THIS-DONE to the U-S-Y, man. Or wo-man. Woah, man. I was hauling my rear (and a bunch of children to boot) all over this stretch of God’s country in my big ugly purple van. I drove people here. I drove people there. I dropped people off. I picked people up. In fact, I went one place with my five boys and came home with seven, only three of whom I had birthed. I balanced brooms in the kitchen to show off the awesome wackiness of the solar flares. I spent the entire week wondering how we could possibly make it to all of our View Post
Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes | Make Ahead Mondays
WARNING: Downton Abbey Spoiler Alert! I'm putting this on in an excess of caution, but given that last night was the season finale here in the US, I just want to be certain that you have a chance to see it before reading. I don't actually give anything away, but I don't want you to draw conclusions and then hate me forever. This Sunday was a memorable one. Two of my boys had their first ever band practice. I stood in the kitchen listening to the guys jam, sneaking glances as often as I could without looking like a nutty backstage mom. I walked by and took as many surreptitious photos as I possibly could and tried desperately not to cry View Post
Homemade Slow-Cooker Pizza Sauce
Raise your hand if you think pizza is the perfect food. I see a lot of hands. This might take a while. I have my hand up. I'd stick both of them in the air and wave them like I used to do when I had the answer in History or English*, but then this would be a very short post. *Yep. I was that kid. Nicknames? The Curve Breaker, Encyclopaedia Beccy, ... Do you know anyone who doesn't like pizza? I would wager you that in actuality they just haven't had the right pizza yet. There's a lot of nasty stuff sold out there called pizza. Gummy crusts, plastic cheese, poorly chosen or cooked toppings, and insipid sauce- it's no View Post
Slow-Simmered Collard Greens
This is a continuation of my Southern New Year's Foods series. And it comes with an executive decision. I was unable to get photos of the dish, but I wanted you to have the recipe before New Year's Eve. So up it goes sans photos of the greens! If I get photos of it at a later date, I'll post those on here. Happy New Year! Black-eyed peas, collard greens, cornbread... all these foods are indelibly linked to the South. No matter which city, town, county or mountain holler you call home, if you're from the South it's a pretty safe bet that you have a family recipe for these rattling around somewhere. I have not one, not two, but three View Post