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Easy Slow Cooker Beans

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Easy Slow Cooker Beans how to cook dried beans in your slow cooker the best recipe.  Quick to prep and great taste and must try dry bean slow cooker recipe.  So my latest obsession in cooking has been beans.  I have been cooking dried beans and enjoying them all week aas sides, on salads or as a main course.  I cook them on Monday,  will I start soaking the night before.  They are super simple and very good for you.  Making them from scratch you avoid the sodium found in caned beans.

Easy Slow Cooker Beans

  • 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf
  • 1 lb of dried beans
  • 1 tbls of oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon of cumin
  • 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper
  • 1 tbls of hot sauce
  • 2 garlic cloves smashed
  • 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock,
  • optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped
  1. The night before place beans in a large bowl pick out any bad beans , cover with water  an allow to sit over night
  2. In the morning rinse beans with water and place in a cover pot on the stove, cover with clean water- bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. drain and rinse with cool water.  This cooks off any bacteria or toxins
  3. in a slow cooker place 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf, beans, 1 tbls of oil, 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper, 1 tbls of hot sauce, 2 garlic cloves smashed,  beans, 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock, (optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped)
  4. Cooks for 8 hours on low easy bean recipe

Here is a printable version of Easy Slow Cooker Beans

This weeks meal planning:

  • Monday Ribs and potatoes
  • Tuesday Chicken noodle soup (snow)
  • Wednesday is ash Wednesday so homemade bread in a bag–  I make 9 loaves for church dinner and a pot my seafood chowder for the church super
  • Thursday; Pork chops, and sour kraut
  • Friday Dinner for 3 my daughter choice

Have a great week an have fun making beans

I am linking up to Organizing Junkies Menu Plan Monday

Motivation Monday

Chicken Corn Chowder with Bacon

Chicken Corn Chowder with BaconChicken Corn Chowder with Bacon made in a crock pot is a easy family dinner sure to be a crowd pleaser. Use those last ears of corn or frozen corn your family will love it with a heart bread. I came up with this recipe because my husband purchased corn.  I love corn on the cob but my husband is not a fan of eating it off the cob.  So I decided to make soup it was a cool chilly fall day.

Chicken Corn Chowder with Bacon

Makes 6 servings

  • 4 ears of corn or a bag of frozen corn
  • 1 can of creamed corn
  • 1 package of softened cream cheese
  • 1 can of chicken broth (2 cans if you want
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 1/2 pound of bacon
  • 2 chicken breast or left over chicken
  • 4 large carrots diced (here is how to cut the carrots like hearts)
  • 1 large onion diced
  • 2 celery stalks diced
  1. Cook your Onions, Celery and carrots till they are Tender and onions are Translucent. Or use your Precooked Frozen Mirepoix -transfer to crockpot
  2. Cut you corn of the cob, add to crock pot, cream cornChicken Corn Chowder with Bacon
  3. Cook bacon add 3/4 of the bacon to crock pot and reserve the remaining for topping the soupChicken Corn Chowder with Bacon
  4. Add milk, both, cream corn
  5. Chicken if uncooked dice and add to crock pot-  If chicken is cooked add 1/2 hour before finish time.
  6. Place cream cheese on top of all the ingredients (do not stir in until end allowing it to melt during cooking process)Chicken Corn Chowder with Bacon
  7. Cook for 3-4 hours on low-
  8. Dish into bowl and to with crisp bacon you had reserved

Printable version of Chicken Corn Chowder with BaconChicken Corn Chowder with Bacon

This weeks meal planning:

Meal Planning Monday

Monday: Meatless Monday Butter Nut Squash soup with homemade bread

Tuesday: Baked Ravioli

Wednesday: Baked chicken with roasted potatoes and Zucchini

Thursday: Meat Loaf Muffins with baked mac n’ cheese with bacon onion toppers

Halloween Friday: Grill cheese with tomato soup

I am linking up to Organizing Junkies Menu Plan Monday