Making french toast in the crock pot has become my new favorite. It’s too easy. Basic ingredients go in, let it soak overnight, and then turn the crock pot on first thing in the morning. No fuss or frills about it.
Easy Slow Cooker Santa Fe Chicken Soup (she: Victoria)
Since I’m a busy mama with a preschooler, toddler and now a newborn, I wanted to share with you one of our family’s favorite winter recipes using the greatest kitchen appliance every invented (in my opinion at least) … the slow cooker.
I love the simplicity of throwing all the ingredients in during the morning hours, setting the timer and walking away allowing it to slowly cook a savory and mouthwatering dish to be ready just in time for dinner.
I probably use my slow cooker at least twice a week, even more now that my days just got a lot busier!
One of our family’s favorite winter recipes is this easy slow cooker Santa Fe Chicken Soup recipe. Not only is it packed with flavor but it’s also pretty frugal to make too which is always a plus in my book! I love easy, delicious, crowd pleasing recipes that uses simple ingredients, many of which I usually always have on hand in my pantry, freezer or refrigerator.
Slow Cooker Curried Chicken and Chickpea Stew
On a recent family vacation to Bear Lake, my sister-in-law (and lovely assistant), Rebecca, was in charge of dinner for the night. She made this fabulous meal that everyone devoured and I realized this girl has been holding out on me! I instantly demanded she give me all of her good recipes, and like a good assistant should, she did. I guess I’ll keep her around a little longer. 🙂 Anyway, this Slow Cooker Curried Chicken and Chickpea Stew is one of the recipes she emailed me. My kids love Indian food and I love an easy meal in the slow cooker, so I knew this was just the one to try first. Yes, my friends. Yes. It was scrum-diddly-umptious. I’m sure she’s freaking out right now because it probably looks different than her recipe. Last minute, I was feeling naughty and dropped a bar of cream cheese in the stew to make it more of a creamy gravy, rather than a soup. But, it was awesome both ways. We were taste-testing it with the cream cheese and without, and none of us could decide. So, I’ll share the recipe as given and if you want to add cream cheese, feel free. The only other change I made, okay, well two… I forgot to buy onions, so I just gave a few shakes of dehydrated onions. Also, because I don’t do tomato chunks, I used crushed tomatoes instead.