7 Recipes For Slow Cookers (Even Ricky Can Make!)
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This is going to be a semi-crazy and very fun week for me. I’m heading out for a week filled with book signings. I’ll be beginning tonight in my hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, and then going to Oxford, Jackson, and Memphis. Click here for more information about where I’ll be traveling over the next few weeks. I’d love to meet you! *A lot of stores are selling out of our book.If you are planning on attending a book signing, you might want to go ahead and visit that store to pick up your copy of the book to ensure they have enough. You can also help ensure they have enough by clicking on the city names above of the ones you plan on attending to RSVP on FB.
My AMAZING Mother in Law has come to stay and take my place this week so the kids will be well taken care of but I’ve been trying to teach Ricky how to make a few slow cooker meals so supper won’t be a hassle for any of them. Let me tell you a little about my husband – he is an Engineer. He is one of the most intelligent people I know, can design entire space stations and such on his own, but when it comes to cooking his intelligence kinda gets in the way a bit. Just to show you how smart he is, below is something he designed from start to finish in CAD program called SolidWorks (we are sooooooo a SolidWorks Family. Even my eleven year old has been learning the software).
See? Takes a smart fella to make that. Can he cook supper though? We’ll be finding out this week!
His past cooking ventures have been kind of interesting. The perfect example of this is shortly after we were married. He said he was going to cook a special dish for me, a recipe he made up in college called “Beef Rice”. Beef Rice consists of beef flavored Rice-A-Roni and cooked ground beef stirred together. Now, don’t get me wrong, we still eat Beef Rice to this day, but it was how he went about cooking it that made me realize I was destined to be the cook in this family.
Apparently, he had always cooked the beef first and then washed and dried that pan before getting out a pot for the rice and cooking it next. Well, on this fateful day he had a brilliant idea!
What if he cooked the Beef in the skillet AND the rice in a pot AT THE SAME TIME!?
As this groundbreaking idea hit him he called me into the kitchen by yelling “Baby come here! You aren’t going to believe this!” I came into the kitchen half expecting to see the image of Jesus on his toast by the tone in his voice only to find him beaming like a school kid from the stove as he declared “I’m cooking SIMULTANEOUSLY!”
~blinks~
I had to wonder if he thought we started cooking our suppers first thing in the morning in order to have all of it done by dinner time but didn’t say anything. Instead, I congratulated him on his new found skill, went into the bedroom, and called Mama to tell her.
We still get a giggle out of that today. So in my attempt to expand Ricky’s cooking repertoire beyond PB&J and Beef Rice, here are some slow cooker recipes I’ve been trying to teach him.
P.S. There is no earthly way I could have spelled “repertoire” without spell check. I’m jes sayin…
Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice
Ricky has been having cow fits over this stuff lately and has assured me he WILL be making it this week.
Ever make a pot roast and have it turn out dry? Dry roasts will be forever behind you now!
One Slow Cooker Recipe: 2 Different Meals
This is a great way to cook a roast and get two nights worth of suppers out of it!
Ricky’s Favorite Slow Cooker Pork Roast and Veggies
I can get ANYTHING I want just by offering to make this for my husband! This post includes the entire menu pictured.
I just love a good and hearty stew!
This is the type of BBQ we have in North Alabama with a tender and flavorful pork and a nice clear sauce to pour over it. YUM!
I think this one is my personal favorite 🙂
Valerie, thank you so much for today’s quote! I just love it!!!
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch,
you must first invent the universe.
~Carl Sagan
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Christy thanks so much for taking care of all of our families as well as your own! My crockpot roast has been suffering “dryness” lately and you just provided me with the fix! Thanks I love reading all of your stories and recipes and can’t wait to try more of them out. Caramel corn is going to be the dessert of the week & a nice little gift for my 2 yr old twins’ pre-school teachers. I live in the Memphis Area but can’t make it to the book signing…I hope it goes well!
Denise
Christy, This is the first time writing to you. I purchased your cookbook today at Books a Million, at first i couldn’t find it, i kept looking thru the cookbooks and was just about to leave when low and behold i saw it sticking out between two other cookbook. I felt like i had won the lottery. I have cooked quite a few of your recipes. Two of your cakes, Honey bun cake and the coca cola cake went with me to our college game tail gate parties. I first tried them out on my hubby to see if he thought they were good enough to take to the game. He gaves you 10 Stars. So i knew they were winners. We have another game in about 2 weeks. I am thinking about your Apple Dapple cake. My hubby is complaining tho, he says there is never any cake left after the games to bring home. You gotta love him. I hope you have a wonderful trip and don’t worry about the family, i am sure your MIL will take good care of them.
All the best
Linda
YOUR BOOK ARRIVED TODAY OH BOY IT IS ALL I ANTICPATED AND MUCH MORE. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR TOUR WISH YOU WERE COMING MY WAY, BUT NEW ENGLAND IS ALITTLE WAY NORTH LOL
BEST WISHES ON HITTING THE TOP TEN
LOUISE
He will manage just fine. I ordered another cookbook just now. I took mine to work Thursday, got it back today and someone else took it home to look through.
Another gal wants to look at it when this one brings it back. hopefully, some of them will need a copy.
have a safe and enjoyable trip!!!
Hey Christy,
My husband is an engineer too and his cooking skills are limited to grilling out hamburgers! He actually has done a pretty good job with bran muffins and microwave peanut brittle and he and our daughter like to do fudge at christmas time.
I hope you have a good week signing all those books and giving out hugs(which you do so well). TRY not to worry about home. I know you are glad to have the mama-in-law there.
Be safe and I hope to get to see you before too long.
Thank you so much Angela!
I can’t tell you what a relief it is to at least have their grandmother here in my absence. That gives me a lot of peace knowing it. Looks like I’m gonna be super busy and the good news is I get to meet a lot of folks so I’m hoping to be back home before I know it!
Gratefully,
Christy
I just wanted to note that I got your cookbook from Amazon the day it was released. I collect cookbooks and it will be in my top five favorites I have. I love the recipes and the fact they are easy to make and sound very good. Some of them (even though I am a Northern Lady) I have cooked in a similar way and even my Mom (Bless her soul) cook some great things. Thanks for collecting such great recipes and putting them in a book.
Now Nancy, I LOVE Northern folks! I was just telling a group in Nashville yesterday that we gotta be extra nice to Northerners because y’all got some good recipes, too!!!
Thank YOU for all of your support and being part of the fam!
Gratefully,
Christy