TTAH Tuesday – Try out the Crockpot

March 17, 2009 at 3:59 pm (Good Stuff, Just life, Try-This-At-Home Tuesday) ()

I love to use my crockpot.  My top two reasons for using the crockpot?

(1)  Having a home cooked meal at suppertime without having to do the work at suppertime (around here suppertime = crazy hour.  if you have ankle-biters, i’m sure you can relate)

(2)  Having a homecooked meal in the middle of summer without heating up the kitchen and when you can’t stand the thought of another night of grilled anything.

So, in honor of my love of my crockpot, I’m sending you to a blog I recently found.  It has some awesome crockpot recipes that I cannot wait to try out.

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com

Interesting that the author’s name is also Stephanie!  And I’m sure I don’t love my crockpot as much as she does – having used it every day in 2008!  Yikes.

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I’m in The Game

August 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm (Good Stuff, Just life) (, )

That was “The Game”, not “The Games”, in case you misunderstood.

You know The Game, don’t you? 

The one where you try to use up all the zucchini you have, preferably finding as many varied recipes as possible so that your family doesn’t have to eat plain old boiled zucchini every single night.

And you don’t have to waste any precious zucchini.

Prior to this year, I was really just a spectator in this game.  I’d laugh politely when the topic rolled around to this, pretending I knew what I was talking about.  But now that we have joined a CSA (community supported agriculture) farm, we have an abundance of vegetables.  Including zucchini.

So in the interest of helping out my fellow players, here is one of my favorite zucchini recipes:

Zucchini Casserole

4-5 cups zucchini, cut into 1 inch cubes

1 tsp. salt

dash pepper

2 T butter

1 small onion, finely chopped

1/2 cup crushed ritz crackers

1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese

Parboil squash for about 5 minutes (you can also use yellow squash instead of or in addition to the zucchini).  Place into a buttered casserole dish.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper.  Add onion.  Sprinkle the crushed crackers over the top, and then sprinkle the cheese.  Dot with butter.  Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes. 

So yummy.  Enjoy!

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