Feed your family. Feed your soul.
Recipes by the Zen of Slow Cooking for the first meal of the day. Your slow cooker or Instant Pot can help make your morning breakfast or brunch, whether it’s sweet or savory. Enjoy our collection of eggs, oatmeal, toast toppings, and more.
It’s Wednesday morning and we’re into the second week of back to school. I’m navigating the usual first-term conundrums and schedules, and like many of you my slow cooker has found it’s place on my counter-top for the season. I came out of the gate …read more
We are often asked about cooking for one, which can be a challenge in a slow cooker if you aren’t batch cooking for yourself. Whether it’s a working lunch for myself, a meal for a college student or single retirees, the pressure cooker setting is …read more
These delightfully simple Eggs en Cocotte were a quick fix to the disaster that struck my kitchen yesterday. I made such a mess of an entire bundt cake experiment in the Instant Pot.
This months theme is tasty, inexpensive and wholesome meals for college students in need of sustenance.
In wrapping up our month of breakfast recipes we turn to comfort food this week. A hot breakfast with eggs evokes a real sense of well being in our house, possibly because it means that we all have time to actually sit and commune.
The smell of sizzling bacon wafting up the stairs is enough to get any member of my family leaping from their beds in the morning without hesitation. The salty, savory slices don’t last long and I usually end up short changed with just the scraps to …read more
The inspiration to focus on breakfast this month is twofold. The idea, brought to life by The Secrets of Happy Families book in Meg’s post last week, that family connections can be nurtured over the breakfast table.
We’re always on the look out for ways to make our weekday 6.30am breakfast with my older daughter, Lily, more inspired.
“Achieving one’s healthy body weight is paramount to achieving long term wellness. Lightening is about dropping the pounds as well as letting go of the emotional weight that goes with them.” – Michelle Swain, Organa WellnessÂ
Fueling up for a long day can be a chore for me in the early morning, especially in Winter when I dread stepping out of bed before the sun comes up. Coffee dominates my routine, but my girls treat breakfast with all the pomp of fine …read more
Continuing our month of family traditions, Meg starts her Christmas morning by baking a sausage, egg and cheese strata.
Far from putting away my slow cooker this summer, I’m using it regularly so that I can spend time outside of my working hours doing fun things with my girls.
