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Crock Pot Applesauce

When Applesauce is this easy, why would you buy it?
Ingredients:

12 cups pared, cored apples. Thinly sliced or chopped into chunks.
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup water
1 TBS lemon juice
freshly ground nutmeg (optional)

Method:
Put apples, cinnamon and sugar in crock pot.
Stir in water, lemon juice and nutmeg
Cover.
Cook low: 5-7 hours
Cook high: 2.5-3.5 hours
Stir or mash, depending on [...]

Mexican Beef and Bean Stew

This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free recipe! It is also a wheat free, dairy free, egg free, tree nut free, peanut free, fish free, shellfish free, top 8 allergen free, corn free, and a South Beach phase 1 recipe. It could also be vegan/vegetarian by adding 1 extra can of beans, and [...]

Crock Pot Pot Roast

Adapted from this Good Eats Recipe for oven pot roast
This is also known in our house as “olive meat”, and is greatly loved by almost everyone
Ingredients:

1 8oz jar olives
1 handful raisins (optional)
1 cup leftover tomato sauce, tomato paste, or crushed tomatoes
pinch kosher salt
splash balsamic vinegar
approximately 3 lbs chuck roast
(optional – slice onion into rings, mince [...]

A Few tips on living gluten-free

I’m writing a series on Celiac disease/food allergies/food intolerances over at BostonNow. Much of what I have written is things I’ve said in many different ways here, but the articles might be helpful for some of my readers.
Starting to eat a Restricted Diet – Part 1 in a series Is tasty food too much [...]

Indian Apricot Chicken

Ingredients

splash olive oil
2-3 lbs boneless/skinless chicken breasts
1 medium onion, diced
3-4 garlic cloves, minced or pressed
1/2 cup apricots, diced
1/3 cup apricot jam
2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cumin
2 TBS lemon juice
2 cinnamon sticks, broken in half
Method
Splash olive oil in crock pot. Place chicken inside it, making a layer across the bottom. put the 4 pieces of [...]

Corn Chowder

This is an adaptation of a recipe a friend found in the Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker. We all loved this, AND it was already gluten and dairy free! I just tweaked a few things to suit our own tastes.
Ingredients:

12 slices cooked bacon, crumbled or chopped (I use 1 [...]

Chili

This recipe has passed muster with my Texan friends and inlaws, as well as with many other Southerners. My family and kids love this, too. It’s easy, and has plenty of delicious leftovers for later!
This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free, family-friendly recipe! It is also (if you double check ingredients!) [...]

Pineapple Pork Roast

Inspired by a taste in my mouth and meat on sale
This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free, family-friendly recipe! It is also (if you double check ingredients!) a wheat free, dairy free, soy free, egg free, tree nut free, peanut free, fish free, shellfish free, corn free, top 8 allergen free, and South [...]

BBQ Pork Roast

This is a super-easy, yet tasty recipe.
Dump the following into a crock pot:

a few cloves of garlic
2-3 lb pork roast (we get one of the big pork loins when they are on sale and cut them into 3-4 segments)
about 1/4-1/3 cup brown sugar
couple shakes Tony Chacheres Cajun seasoning
Several squirts BBQ sauce (we use Sweet [...]

Italian Soup with Quinoa

This recipe is an adaptation of one I found online. I made several modifications, though, to make it work well for our family. Don’t be intimidated by the list of ingredients – it’s a very easy recipe to make. Less than 10 minutes prep time, then the rest is cooking in the [...]

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