Feed your family. Feed your soul.
From simple chicken dishes, hearty pies, chillis, home comforts like meatloaf, or grilling in the summer, these are our go-to recipes that will get you and your family through the week and to the weekend. Put your slow cooker or Instant Pot to work, so you don’t have to! All created by the Zen of Slow Cooking.
Sunday has become Pot Pie day here and each week I bring another Instant Pot or slow cooker pie filling to life using one of our spice blends. Today’s flavor loaded favorite is our chicken pot pie with a classic flaky crust, made with our …read more
A quote from one of the masters of home cooking Julia Child as you embark on the next step in life. “This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have …read more
Gyro & Tzatziki – a gyro is delicious, succulent marinaded pieces of meat cooked on a rotisserie grill and popped into a warm pita rolled into a cone. A gyro can be dressed with with Tzatziki; a fresh and creamy cucumber mint sauce.
Black quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) is a gluten free wholegrain. 1 cup of cooked quinoa is a source of more than 8g of protein. WOW! Meg brought us into her Zoom cocktaling world last week and shared a Saffron Americano recipe. Meanwhile I’ve been flipping chicken …read more
. Bratwurst: brät-, finely chopped meat. wurst-, sausage typicall made from chopped pork mixed with spices. Wisconsin Beer Brats evoke one stand out memory for me of our annual camping trip to Governor Dodge State Park, WI for July 4th Weekend. We never left hungry …read more
Coq Au Vin Part Trois (links to parts 1 and 2 here) “Another easy dish that looks like it is hard. It is not in fact, this is the kind of dish you might enjoy spending a leisurely afternoon with” – Anthony Bourdain, Les Halles …read more
I did not know that Italian Beef was a thing at all until I lived in Chicago. It quickly became one of my favorite home cooked easy dinner fixes. There are a plethora of restaurants such as Al’s, Tony’s, Roma’s, and Mr Beef all devoted …read more
Sunday lunch is deliciously different during the summer months to my traditional family roast with potatoes, veg and gravy. In this second part of our summer grilling series the Provençale marinaded pork tenderloin is the centerpiece for a simple Sunday feast.
In the interest of recipe development it is pie month in our house. I love pastry in any form, sweet and savory which got me thinking about crafting a series of pie fillings in my Instant Pot.
As we share our favorite “comfort” meals in celebrating Hygge – I wanted to share mine from an earlier post! Enjoy… When I first ventured into slow cooking I spent years cooking meals you expect from a slow cooker – beef stew, soup, chili…
I recently discovered Lateral Cooking, the latest cookbook and culinary term to hit the airwaves on this side of the Atlantic, written by the author of the Flavour Thesaurus Niki Segnit.
Last weekend we chalked up our 8th move in 15 years, and my Instant Pot has been working overtime. This is somewhat perfect timing for us since we are supporting the Food Marketing Institute’s Family Meals Month campaign, which debuted in September of 2015.
