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You can use your slow cooker or Instant Pot for more than just dinner! Explore our recipes for baking bread and cakes, creating chocolate treats, and whipping up delicious desserts. All created by the Zen of Slow Cooking.
“We are an integral part of this natural world” – Laura Plumb, and how we choose to live at one with ourselves and our planet is a work in progress for life. If we are fortunate to be able to take care of our nourishment …read more
For the grand finale in our Route 66 series, Meg asked me to create a prickly pear bread pudding similar to the one she enjoyed from The Turquoise Room menu at historic La Posada.
We’re fully embracing the holiday season and between the requisite quarrels over who gets to measure the flour first to how many times they each have licked the spoon, my vision for a perfectly orchestrated holiday cookie baking bonanza last weekend with my girls has now …read more
The Margaret Fulton Crock Pot Cookbook 1982 edition is as you would expect from the early 1980’s. I removed it’s external cover to reveal a bare brown book with a funky white font. Fulton is a British born Australian food writer who brought global dishes into the homes …read more
We’re finishing up the year with a fun and festive classic reinvention of Swiss fondue, using chocolate and liqueur. I’m back at home with my parents this New Year’s Eve and being a child of the ’70’s I managed to dig out and dust off my mum’s …read more
Founded in 2007, the Ferrer Foundation has a mission – “Our mission is to inspire peace and hope for children in underserved Chicago communities.”… ” Focusing on, but not limited to children of incarcerated parents..”
While Meg was busy packing Doug up for college I packed for the beach and headed to the East Coast. With the absence of a slow cooker on our travels, ahead of time, I chose 3 super simple recipes to squeeze out the last few …read more
It’s almost 2 years since we took our debut whole spice infusion, Moroccan Tagine, to Anthropologie in Highland Park for a wellness event. At the same event we also met our amazing photographer Kerri Sherman and formed a friendship that would bring our spice blends …read more
The linoleum floor tiles of Nana’s & Pop’s 1950’s duck egg blue painted kitchen/diner, worn thin by the foot traffic on a never-ending quest for cups of tea, remained untouched until the new millennium.
Flour Bakery carries the tagline “make life sweeter…. eat dessert first!” Well I wasn’t so sure about that but was certain that my love for a freshly baked loaf of bread and sweet pastries at breakfast would not die.Â
“You can make bread in a slow cooker?” they say, eyebrows raised, as we lift the lid off the slow cooker.
Our summer took an unexpected twist recently. What should have been an annual two week trip to the UK turned into a month long extended stay, due to an outage of the US Passport and Visa system, stranding tens of thousands of people worldwide including my …read more
