75 Days of Summer Slow Cooker Recipes

75 Days of Summer Slow Cooker Meals EatAtHomeCooks

 

I am ridiculously excited about this series!  I love using my slow cooker and I know you do too. (Links to all the recipes are being added to the bottom of this post.)

Get ready for 75 slow cooker recipes that are perfect for summer.  There’s not a soup or stew among them.  Keep your kitchen cool and have dinner ready when you get in from the pool.

It won’t be all main dishes though.  Look for sides and desserts too.  We want to get everything we can out of the crockpot this summer.

The series starts on June 1 and will run for 75 days.  I’ll share a recipe each day.  Some will be from Eat at Home.  Some will be from around the web.  I’ll be throwing in a few brand new ones that I create, as well.

I’ll also be posting other types of recipes, cooking tips and the sneak peeks at the Weekly Meal Plans each week.  That means that some days we’ll have more than one post for you.  Don’t worry if you’re an email subscriber though, you’ll still get just one email daily or weekly, depending on which you opted for when you signed up.  All the posts for the day/week will be in that email. (You are on the email list, aren’t you?  You won’t want to miss these summer slow cooker recipes!)

Day 1 – Mango Chicken

Day 2 – Cheese Steak Sandwiches

Day 3 – Lemon Chicken

Day 4 – Baking Potatoes in the Slow Cooker (with a recipe for Fried Potatoes)

Day 5 – Pork Carnitas

Day 6 – Pesto Ranch Chicken

Day 7 – Chicken BBQ & Slaw Sandwich 

Day 8 – Peach Crisp in the Slow Cooker

Day 9 – Fresh Green Beans in the Slow Cooker

Day 10 – P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wraps

Day 11 – BBQ Peach Pulled Pork

Day 12 – Asian Orange Chicken

Day 13 – Pasta Sauce with Sausage and Eggplant

Day 14 – Crockpot Chicken Fajitas

Day 15 – Mexican Haystacks

Day 16 – Chocolate Cobbler

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes – Year 3 Week 38

School starts this week for us.  This marks the 16th year that I’ve geared up for homeschooling.

It’s so much easier now that I just have kids in 4th, 8th and 12th grades.  My son who is a senior is taking a couple of dual enrollment classes at the community college, so my teaching responsibilities with him are few.  And my oldest daughter is starting her junior year at UK.

The hardest year for me (aside from every time we added a new baby to the family) was the year I had one in preschool, grade school, middle school and high school.  I just felt a little spread thin that year trying to meet such a variety of needs.

I can’t say that we’ve done it all perfectly for the past 15 years (far from it!), but the journey has been worth it.

For all of us getting back into the school schedule – whether it’s public, private, home, college, etc. – many prayers for a year of adventures learning together.

One of my biggest helps during the school year, is printing the weekly menu and grocery list.  No planning required and I know what dinner is going to be all week.  I’ve also been training my oldest son to do the grocery shopping for me.  He’s pretty good at it!

Here’s what is on the menu this week:

African Pulled Beef Sandwiches in the Slow Cooker with Yogurt Mint Sauce, Roasted Sweet & White Potatoes, watermelon

Honey Lemon Pepper Salmon, Garlic Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes, favorite green veggie

Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry” in the Slow Cooker, rice

Garden Frittata, Blueberry Muffins with Orange Glaze, fresh fruit

Enchiladas with Chili-Tomato Sauce, salad, chips & salsa

BBQ Chicken with Southwestern Cornbread Stuffing, favorite green veggie

Coconut Cream and Chocolate Dessert

To print, click here:  menu year 3 week 38

 

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes Year 3 Week 32

I think you’re going to like this menu.  It’s got some really good dishes and they are all fast too.  Some are super fast.  That’s the way I like my cooking to be.
As always, you get 6 dinners and 1 dessert.  Serving suggestions are included in bold on the recipes and in curly brackets {} on the grocery list.

Here’s what is on the menu this week:

Pepperoni Pizza Pasta, salad

Complete BBQ Chicken Dinner in the Slow Cooker

Honey Mustard Grilled Pork Chops, Cucumbers and Onions, favorite veggie

Lemon Pepper Tilapia with Veggies on the Grill, baked potatoes (try using the microwave or slow cooker for this)

Nachos, salad

Gina’s Club Sandwiches, watermelon, Quick Cole Slaw

Ice Cream Cappuccinos

To print, click here: menu year 3 week 32

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes Year 3 Week 31

Hope you had a great summer weekend!  I’ve got one kid off to Scout Camp this week and he is having a hard time with being homesick.  Anyone have a child deal with that before?  It’s hard to watch your kids struggle with something that only they can struggle with.  Parenting is a tough job!

As for the menu this week, there’s lots of variety.  You get 6 dinners and 1 dessert, along with serving suggestions.  Print, shop, cook!

Grilled Round Steak with Red Wine Vinegar and Homemade Seasoned Salt, baked sweet potatoes in the slow cooker, favorite green veggie

Sloppy Slow Cooked Chicken Tacos, chips and salsa, salad

Bacon and Tomato Pasta, garlic bread, salad

Grilled Fish Sandwiches with Homemade Tartar Sauce, Asian Broccoli Salad

Pesto Tomato Pizza, salad

Scrambled Eggs and Peppers, Biscuits, fresh fruit

New England Blueberry Coffee Cake

To print, click here:  [download id="130"]

New England Blueberry Coffee Cake

How many U.S. states have you been too?  I have not been to very many, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to go.  You know those culprits – time and money – that keep us from getting to do what we’d like to do.

So I had an idea that this summer I would travel the country from my own kitchen and invite you to come along.

This week, we’re in the New England states of Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.   I would love to visit this area of the world, because I hear it is beautiful!  If you’re from New England, please leave a comment and let me know.  And tell us what your favorite regional foods are – links welcome!

I chose to make this recipe for New England Blueberry Coffee Cake.  I found the recipe on AllRecipes.  The only change I made was the baking time.  The time the recipe states was no where near long enough.  I also forgot to add the flour to the butter and brown sugar in the topping.  It still turned out, but the flour would have made it more like a crumb topping.

We loved this cake.  It’s full of blueberries, topped with brown sugar and butter and studded with walnuts.  Oh my! [Read more...]

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes – Year 3 Week 30

I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day weekend.   Our daughter got home from China on Friday, so we spent the weekend as a family listening to stories from her trip.  It was a wonderful way to spend time together!

New Homepage

You may have noticed that the site has a new homepage.  One of the features of the page is new categories for the menus including Slow Cooker Menus (these have at least 3-4 or more slow cooker recipes) and Summer and Winter Menus.

I’m still tweaking the homepage, so if you see something you think would work better, send me an email or leave a comment letting me  know.

Also, you can still get to the blog (the old homepage) by clicking “blog” in the navigation bar at the top of the page.

A few notes on this week’s menu:

- The bowtie pasta with cheddar cheese listed as a side dish is simple.  Just pasta cooked and drained then mixed with a little butter and shredded cheddar.  It’s easy and kid-friendly.

- Buy a large chicken and use the leftover meat from Whole Chicken in the Slow Cooker to make Italian Chicken and Rice Casserole.

 

Turkey Legs, Italian Sausage and Potatoes in the Slow Cooker, favorite green veggie

BBQ Ham Steak on the Grill, Corn Salad, bowtie pasta with cheddar cheese

Whole Chicken in the Slow Cooker, favorite veggie, Biscuit Bites

Italian Chicken and Rice Casserole, salad

Cheese Ravioli with Pesto, Red Peppers and Grilled Chicken, salad

Pan Fried Shrimp Sandwich, Quick Cole Slaw, Sweet Potato Fries

Pina Colada Cake Mix Cookies

To print, click here: [download id="129"]

 

 

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes Year 3 Week 29

I hope you had a great weekend!

The all slow cooker menu that I published last week was very popular.  I’ll try to put together another one like it soon.

Here’s the menu for this week:

Brown Sugar Chicken and Sweet Potatoes in the Slow cooker, steamed green veggie

South of the Border Skillet, salad, chips and salsa

Bacon and Tomato Pasta, salad

Chicken Gyros, Asian Broccoli Slaw

Ham and Pineapple Fried Rice

Chicago Style Pizza Pot Pie, salad

Peach Pound Cake with Peach Nectar Glaze

To print, click here: menu year 3 week 29

Gazpacho – Or what to do with zucchini from the neighbors

The fantastic thing about this soup is that it’s really just a bowl full of raw veggies.  But it tastes divine.  So good, you could just eat and eat it.  So good for you that you can do just that with no guilt.

It’s perfect for a hot, summer evening because it’s eaten cold.  I have to admit that freaked my kids out.  They did eat it, but they weren’t sure they liked cold soup.  Jim and I loved it though.

I adapted my recipe from Pioneer Woman, adding red bell pepper, jalepeno and parsley just because they were hanging out in my fridge.  I don’t own a food processor, so I used my pitiful blender that has been partially melted in the dishwasher.  It worked fine, so I guess I still don’t have an excuse to buy a food processor.

Here’s what you’ll need:  [Read more...]

Menu, Grocery List, Recipes Year 2 Week 43

Fire up the grill!  We’re going to make good use of it with this menu.

I recommend doing some batch cooking too.  Grill chicken for the Pepper Patch Pasta (you could make this meatless instead) and extra for Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas.  The enchilada recipe doesn’t have to use grilled chicken, but it’s a fast way to cook the meat, especially if you’re grilling already.

Here’s what’s on the menu this week:

To print, click here:  [download id="105"]

This menu is linked to Menu Plan Monday at The Organizing Junkie.

Zucchini Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A neighbor gifted me with a giant zucchini the other day.  My first inclination was to make zucchini bread, but then I ran across this recipe in one of my Amish cookbooks.

I’m pretty sure that the 3 cups of veggies in this cake off set the naughtiness of the cream cheese frosting.

The only change I made to the recipe was to bake it in a jelly roll pan instead of a 9×13 size.  I would also like to say that I did shred the carrots and zucchini the way the Amish would.  I don’t have a food processor, but I want one.  I want much.

Here’s what you’ll need:  [Read more...]

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