Slow Cooker Burritos by Penny Hawkins

Slow Cooker Burritos are a perfectly delicious example of what you can create with your slow cooker in warm weather. In fact, they're so good, you might just forget all about the heat outside for a while.

Farmhouse Bean Soup by Cindy McNamara

To me, navy bean soup is a requirement once the weather cools off. This is a meatless version that includes dice potatoes and crisp green beans added at the very end of cooking.A hambone or a smoked turkey wing would be yummy!

Black Bean 'n' Pumpkin Chili by Bob Towlson

Simply Smoked Potato Wedges by Curt Despres

This is a very simple way to add a side of potato wedges to the smoker while doing the main dish on the smoker. Such as ribs, a nice beef roast, or maybe a whole chicken. This will take you all of 15 minutes to prepare, and about 1 1/2 hours to cook to perfection. Depending on the spices you choose, they can be sweet, salty, sour,…

Minestrone Soup by Michele Grason

A great soup with lots of veggies!

Smoked Ranch & Cheddar Bread by Curt Despres

With the added butter, powdered Ranch mix, and a full half cup of cheddar cheese, this is an awesome loaf of bread. But wait, I cooked it all on the smoker!

Smoked Pepper & Onion Stuffed Chicken by Curt Despres

Smoked with sassafras wood, marinated with lemon and honey, and stuffed with peppers and green onions. Delicious!

Jambalya by Carolinaheartstrings

There is nothing better than a big bowl of Jambalaya on a cold Sunday evening. This recipe is so easy to throw into the slow cooker and while it cooks you can curl up with a good book. I warn you though, the smell of it might make you forget what you are reading. You can make this recipe even spicier by adding a bit of hot sauce…

Vegetarian Pinto Beans by Wendi Taylor

A family crock-pot favorite. Simple, easy, and delicious.

GOULASH with RED WINE by Peter Brown

Goulash is a traditional Hungarian beef stew and although the ingredients are quite simple the taste is particularly good, jazz it up with red wine. Although goulash is not traditionally made with wine a generous splash of full-bodied Cabernet or Shiraz does give it an entirely new dimension. adding some chilli and mushrooms to this…

Creamy Mac and Cheese by Deborrah Justice

Crock Pot Vegetable Fagioli Soup by Carolinaheartstrings

Wow! This is one easy, awesome, satisfying soup that got a thumb’s up from my teenage daughter. That is high praise my friends. She is a homemade chicken noodle soup girl. I decided to make this a strictly vegetarian dish and I am so glad that I did. No meat needed in this soup. It is plenty hardy enough. Make my biscuit…

Crock Pot Baked Potato Recipe by Claudia lamascolo

I would have never dreamed how easy these were, delicious and fun to make the toppings for. Just think, baked potatoes ready in a crock pot? The kids could make their own snack after school, lunch, dinner, the list goes on and on. Topping suggestions are available on the blog post!

Thai Curry Carrot Soup with Pickled Vegetables by Therese

A couple of years ago I had gone to Epcot's International food and wine festival. While at a cooking demonstration a chef named Celina Tio had made this soup and it is phenomenal very low calorie but packed with flavor.

Sunday Sugo Rosso (Red Sauce) by Bob Vincent

This recipe is adapted from one in Jeff Smith's book The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines published in 1989. I modified it a bit to make a richer sauce with more tomato flavor. The original contained much more chicken stock and did not include tomato sauce. I also included some additional spices. I used canned San…