This crockpot recipe is based on a New Mexican style dish by Jeanne Allen in the cookbook, FIX-IT and FORGET-IT LIGHTLY: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker. Machaca meat is used to stuff tacos, burritos, enchiladas, or is eaten by itself. I liked serving it “soupy” on brown rice. According to David Bulla at [...]
Posted on March 4, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as healthy recipes
Below is my basic crockpot recipe for any type of beef or venison roast, bone in or without. The challenge has been to find a healthy substitute for French onion soup mix. Most commercial mixes contain MSG, hydrogenated oils and even wheat, which can be a concern if you cook gluten free. Instead, I’ve found [...]
Posted on March 1, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as healthy recipes, soup
I’ve noticed that a lot of readers come here looking for crockpot and slow cooker recipes. Since I aim to please, I’ll be sharing a few of the ones I’ve recently made for my family. This one is based on a recipe by Sara Puskar and Nancy Wagner Graves that was featured in FIX-IT and [...]
Posted on February 24, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as healthy recipes
A few more days to the big game! Have you decided what you want to serve yet? Here are some healthy recipes to help you out whether you’re throwing a Super Bowl party or bringing a dish to a potluck. Here at This Mama Cooks!: Beefy Squash and Zucchini Stew Pork, Squash, Butternut and Zucchini [...]
Posted on February 3, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes and tagged as Super Bowl
With the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl games coming up, preparing a healthy slow cooker dish ahead of time is a great way to keep your family and party guests fed while you watch the game. This dish is based on Pork and Butternut Squash Stew found in the February 2010 issue of Ladies Home [...]
Posted on January 26, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Soups,Weight Watchers
Planning your meals is an important part of any diet, especially Weight Watchers. Either you need to make sure that your pantry and refrigerator are filled with nutritious, low calorie and high fiber foods – beans, whole wheat pasta, skim milk, fruit and veggies, etc. Or you need to prepare meals in advance so you [...]
Posted on March 26, 2009 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Weight Watchers
Just when Thanksgiving and Christmas weight gains have finally been dieted off, here comes another eating holiday – SUPER BOWL. I love celebrating this American iconic event with a feast and have done healthy Super Bowl recipes and not so healthy (New England clam chowder and Philly cheese steak anyone?) in the past. Since I’m [...]
Posted on January 23, 2009 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes and tagged as healthy recipes, Super Bowl
Today we have a guest post about the new Weight Watchers Momentum Plan from LaaLoosh.com, a blog primarily dedicated to sharing delicious and exciting Weight Watchers Recipes that are low in Points, but not in taste. The author of LaaLoosh has been an avid Weight Watchers member for many years and really enjoys finding new [...]
Posted on January 9, 2009 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Weight Watchers
Well, I thought my Thanksgiving menu was set. Then I opened up the latest enewsletter from BlogHer and I saw this post from my friend, Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen, Make-Ahead or Crockpot Recipes Can Help with Timing for Thanksgiving Dinner. Thanksgiving dishes in the crockpot. Oh joy, something I haven’t done before! Many of the [...]
Posted on November 22, 2008 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Gluten Free,Recipes,Thanksgiving
I recently attended a meal making cooking class with a group of friends. Basically, it was a Once a Month-Freezer Cooking session combined with a Prepare Your Own Meals store. Our hostess (this was in a private home with a very large kitchen) shopped for the food, chopped the veggies, browned the ground meat, and [...]
Posted on April 10, 2008 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Veggies,Venison,Weight Watchers
My book club is reading A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. I’m hosting the next meeting, so I offered to make a chicken curry. But I’m busy, and on Weight Watchers, so what’s a good hostess to do? Find a terrific curry chicken slow cooker recipe from Weight Watchers, that’s what! I can make [...]
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Weight Watchers
Now that the holiday season is officially over (though I’m sure it really doesn’t end until after the Super Bowl in February), it’s time to go back on the Weight Watchers eating plan. I’m doing Flex Points, since the Core Plan scares me. I’m a bottomless pit when it comes to food, even brown rice [...]
Posted on January 1, 2007 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Weight Watchers
Honestly, what would we all do without our crock pots? Well using one just got a whole lot easier thanks to this week’s Food Blog of the Week – Crock Pot Recipe Blog part of A Crock Cook. Not only does this website feature a blog, but oodles and oodles of crock pot recipes. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted on September 7, 2006 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes
Every slow cooker cookbook I own has variations on the same recipe, but no new ideas. I was getting tired of making the same old slow cooker variations on chili and roasts. Then I came across Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann. First, I was sold on it because [...]
Posted on March 4, 2005 in Books,Cookbooks,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as beef
Continuing our Super Bowl party coverage…let’s discuss New England clam chowder. It’s yummy, creamy and really not that hard to make especially if you use canned clams. If you have access to fresh ones, great. However there’s nothing wrong with canned clams especially when you don’t live anywhere near an ocean and have to go [...]
Posted on January 31, 2005 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Fish,Recipes,Soups and tagged as Super Bowl
Having company or family over for Christmas is stressful enough without having to spend the whole day in the kitchen roasting a turkey and preparing elaborate side dishes. Spiral cut ham is a great option since it’s precooked and presliced. Just warm it up and use the included flavor packet to make a sauce. This [...]
Posted on December 12, 2004 in Christmas,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes and tagged as party food, Super Bowl
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