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Honey Crisp Kale Chopped Salad with Apple Cider Dressing

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Do you ever do something that just makes you so pleased with yourself?  That’s how I feel about creating this salad!  

To me, this Honey Crisp Kale Chopped Salad couldn’t get any better.  I hope you feel the same way.  I do hope you’ll go to your kitchen and give it a try!

This idea came to me in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep.  It’s a simple salad, with just a few healthy ingredients – kale, honey crisp apples, and a few dressing ingredients.  The dressing doesn’t even have to be mixed separately.  I just drizzled each ingredient over the salad and tossed.  So easy!

This is the type of salad I could eat forever!

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11 Slow Cooker Side Dish Recipes

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Have I ever mentioned that I love my slow cooker? Yeah, I thought so! Apparently, I’m not the only one too! And why not! You can do basically everything in a slow cooker. From all-day barbecue to slow cooker side dishes, from overnight breakfasts all the way to decadent desserts like cheesecake, the slow cooker can do it all.  They easily qualify as a kitchen workhorse by saving time, keeping the house cool and making food prep super simple for a small family or a large crowd! I absolutely love using my slow cooker for gatherings. It makes my life so much easier in so many ways.

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If you’ve never used your slow cooker to make side dishes, pull it out and give it a try! These 11 side dishes you can make in your slow cooker are the perfect place to start. These recipes are easy to put together and are definitely crowd pleasers. Pair them with summer food and you’ve got yourself a party or holiday dinners, whichever you prefer.

11 Easy Slow Cooker Side Dishes

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Loaded Cheesy Potato Casserole are sure to be a hit at your next potluck with all their cheesy goodness!

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Honey Glazed Carrots in the slow cooker  are both buttery and sweet. Yum!

slow cooker corn casserole

Corn Casserole in the Slow Cooker is a moist slightly sweet side dish with only 5 ingredients and less than 5 minutes of prep.

hashbrown casserole

Hashbrown Casserole in the slow cooker is just as tasty as it looks, and you can fix the meat in the slow cooker at the same time with a simple little trick included in this post

Winter Squash in the Slow Cooker

Acorn or Butternut Squash in the slow cooker is a perfect side dish, especially when you add some butter and a sprinkling of brown sugar!

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Homemade Apple Sauce in the Slow Cooker  is much simpler than you might think and it just might ruin you for the store-bought stuff once you taste this eat at home version. Consider yourself warned!

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Baked Beans in the Slow Cooker are a must for any dinner involving barbecue. These are classic with brown sugar, molasses and bacon. Yum!

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The cheesy goodness of Scalloped Potatoes in the Slow Cooker? Yes, please!

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Sweet Potatoes and Apples in the Slow Cooker are a tasty combination of fruit and veggies with plenty of sweet spices mixed in!

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And if you prefer squash over sweet potatoes, then try this Apples and Butternut Squash in the Slow Cooker recipe.

This Cheesy Cauliflower from Simply Nourished Living is so tasty you won’t believe that it’s actually weight watcher friendly!

Go ahead and feel free to pin the image below so you can easily find these tasty slow cooker side dishes for when you need a quick, crowd-pleasing dish!

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Easy Sun Dried Tomato, Artichoke Heart and Parmesan Hummus

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My family loves hummus.  Mostly because we love munchy things.  Crackers and veggies and a healthy dip will always go over well in this house.

Making hummus isn’t hard, but it does require buying a few not-so-common ingredients.  So when I heard that BUSH’S® recently introduced Hummus Made Easy, I was all in!

Bonus – it’s every bit as good as I hoped!

You combine a can of BUSH’S® Garbanzos with the packet of Hummus Made Easy and ta-da!  You’ve got great tasting hummus.

The packets have nothing artificial in them, so you end up with a healthy dip that you can feel good about feeding your family.

I decided to dress up the Classic Hummus with sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and Parmesan.

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The process for making this couldn’t get any easier.  Drain and rinse the can of garbanzos and put them in a blender or food processor.  Add the packet of Hummus Made Easy and blend together till smooth.

I stirred in a handful each of sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and Parmesan.  Simple!

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Easy Sun Dried Tomato, Artichoke Heart and Parmesan Hummus

Ingredients

  • 1 can BUSH’S® Garbanzo beans drained
  • 1 packet BUSH’S® Hummus Made Easy
  • 1/3 cup chopped sun dried tomatoes
  • 1/3 cup chopped marinated artichoke hearts
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan shaved or shredded

Instructions

  • Add BUSH’S® garbanzo beans and BUSH’S® Hummus Made Easy to the food processor or blender.
  • Blend till smooth.
  • Spoon hummus into a bowl.
  • Stir sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and Parmesan into hummus, reserving small amount of each for topping.
  • Place hummus in serving dish and top with remaining sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and Parmesan.
  • Serve with crackers or raw veggies.

 

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BUSH’S® Hummus Made Easy comes in three flavors – Classic, Roasted Red Pepper and Southwest Black Bean.

BUSH'S Sun Dried Tomato, Artichoke Heart and Parmesan Hummus

 

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of BUSH’S Beans. The opinions and text are all mine.

Easy Apple Salad

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I could have sworn that I had a recipe for Apple Salad on my blog.  In fact, at Thanksgiving time, I started to make it to take to a gathering and the first thing I did was look search the recipe on the site.  Nothing.

So I snapped a few photos and I’m just now getting around to posting the recipe.  This one is great for holiday dinners like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, but it’s so easy that you can also serve it up on a plain old Tuesday night.

If you’re dishing it up for weeknight dinner, use the ingredients you have on hand.  Feel free to skip the pineapple, pecans or grapes.

The recipe is really more method than exact measurements, but the two ingredients that make the dressing are key.  Those are also the two ingredients I can never remember, hence the reason I was searching my blog for the recipe.

Since my search yielded nothing, I called my mom, of course.  Now that I’ve got the recipe posted we can all find it here and talk to our moms about something else.

Easy Apple Salad

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Cranberry, Pecan, Mandarin Spinach Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

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Cranberry, Pecan, Mandarin Spinach Salad

Adding pecans, dried cranberries, red onions and mandarin oranges to your spinach makes for a great salad.  This is more method than recipe.

Feel free to vary the ingredients for what you have on hand.  Use apple, celery, raisins, walnuts, sesame seeds…  You can also add goat cheese, feta or Parmesan.

I love a slightly sweet vinaigrette with this salad.  It’s easy to whip up homemade Raspberry Vinaigrette.  You probably have all the ingredients in your pantry now.

This is the type of salad I could eat and eat.  And that’s a great way to pump up your daily fresh fruits and vegetables!

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Raspberry Vinaigrette

Ingredients

  • 3 Tbs. seedless raspberry jam
  • 2/3 cup oil
  • 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Warm the jam in the microwave for a few seconds until it become slightly melted.
  • Place all ingredients in a container with a tight fitting lid. A mason jar works well for this. Shake to combine the ingredients.