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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

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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

 

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Ninja Cooker Recipe Ham and Meal Planning

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Ninja cooker disclosure affiliateNinja Cooker Recipe: Ham an easy recipe that fits my family’s dietary restrictions and a summary of how is it going with my family changing our diet. Our changed include making  family friendly Gluten, red meat, dairy, and night shade vegetable free.   Our Food Progress: I am doing better at making meals that please all of us in cluding my husband with his restricted diet.   Last week it was better,   I am asking my husband to help with cooking more because of my schedule and his dietary need.

My Ninja Cooker a Year Later: It has been a year since I 1st review my Ninja Cooker.  I really must say this in one appliance that has never left my counter.  I use it at least once a week,  it make life easy and is a great size for my family of 4 (note one is a teenage boy, and both my kids are competitive swimmers.)   I really do recommend it often to friends and family.  So if you are looking for a new crock pot but want more function them just a crock pot.  Look in to a Ninja cooker.

Sunday night was a case in point where I need an easy meal,  my daughter had a concert at church at 4pm.   I quickly came home after dropping her off at 2 for rehersals  and put dinner in the Ninja cooker and used the timer on the stove for my sides.  I made a smoked ham that was not not overly salty.  My husband did eat ham so I was happy,  because I wanted him to enjoy the Sunday night meal as well.  Why did I choose the Ninja instead of putting the ham in the oven. Was because I want the ham to cook longer and not dry out. So with the side cooking an hour the oven would shut off and the Ninja would cook the ham for the full 3-4 hours until we returned.

Ninja Cooker Recipe : Crock pot ham

  • Bone in ham 7-14 lb (I used a 8lb to feed my family of 4 with enough left over for soup)
  • 1 can crushed Pineapple
  • 1 cup from brown sugar
  • 1 can of coke or soda full sugar
  1. Trim the fat , Score the ham or ham skin in a crisscross pattern
  2. Place ham in your Ninja Cooker I took a bone in ham placing the largest size down  so the bone was
  3. Rub ,packing,pushing brown sugar in score
  4. Pour the can of pineapple
  5. Cook on high for 3-4 hours in a Ninja cooker on crock pot setting using
  • Side Spaghetti Squash sliced 1/2 clean out seeds and place face done in glass dish add 2-3 water cover with tin foil and bake in over for 400 degress for 1 hour
  • Side baked sweet potato  1 hour 400 degrees 1 hour

This weeks meal plan:

Monday: Split Pea soup (soup bone from ham)

Tuesday:Chicken: Chicken Pot Pie-  Making a gluten Free crust with rice flour

Wednesday : Ash Wednesday I am make Easy Seafood chowder at church and Fresh Bread in a Bag 10 loaves

easy seafood chowderbread in a bag

Thursday: Veg Pizza for my husband and Pizza for the kids

Friday: Tacos corn tortillas, rice and homemade re-fried beans

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