Category: Recipes

5 Favorite Relish! Slow Cooker Recipes [+ Crock Pot Giveaway!]

I recently posted about my love affair with Relish! which is an online menu planning site. It has simplified my life and taken the stress out of the dinner hour, which I never thought possible. You can use the site to search recipes by ingredient, get menu ideas, get freezer recipes, and when you select your weekly menu, it will generate a complete shopping list for you. It’s awesome.

Since school is back in session and time is of the essence these days, Relish! has given me 5 favorite Relish! slow cooker recipes to share with you. Click HERE to download the menu PDF and read to the bottom of the post on how you can enter to win a new crock pot!

On this menu you will find delicious crock pot recipes for…

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Toasted Israeli Couscous Salad with Grilled Vegetables

By now you all probably know I hate to cook, so it really was a match made in heaven when I found out my new amazing Sales and Marketing Director, Susanne, went to culinary school and used to work as a personal chef!

You can read more about Susanne here on our new About page. In the meantime, I asked her to send me one of her favorite summer recipes to post in case any of you are planning menus for a Labor Day BBQ. This is the perfect dish to take to a potluck. Here is her oh-so-yummy dish…

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Sweet Cherry Tomato Pasta

Take it from me, the “Queen of the Cooking Challenged,” this is one SUPER yummy fail-proof recipe! When I started the “I Hate to Cook” series I truly did hate cooking. But what I am finding is the MORE I cook, the more I am actually NOT hating it! Gasp! And it is recipes like this that have built my confidence. I even served it to my in-laws! And they loved it, or at least they told me so to humor me.

I found Jessica Seinfeld’s Sweet Cherry Tomato Pasta on her Do it Delicious site. LOVE that site.

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I Hate to Cook Recipe: Parmesan Baked Alaska Cod

Ok friends, here is recipe #4 in my I Hate to Cook series of easy recipes.

I actually served this at a dinner party recently and pulled it off as a semi-fancy dish! Well, dinner party might be an exaggeration, it was just for my sister and her husband, but I actually cooked something to serve to people other than my husband, which for me was a big accomplishment!

It was a SUPER easy meal to serve when guests are over because you can prep the fish ahead of time and put in the fridge until time to bake. Same thing for a weeknight dinner, you can prep during baby’s nap time or when the kids are at school, and just pull out to bake. Love recipes I can do ahead of time! Here goes…

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Crock Pot Tortilla Chicken Soup Recipe

A funny thing has happened since I started the “I Hate to Cook” series. I am not hating to cook as much! Dare I say I am even having a little FUN with it? Am I going to have to change the title!?

So Darlynn Morgan of Morgan Law Group sent me over this recipe and it was SO easy it was ridiculous!

Basically it involves opening cans and putting things in crock pot. When I read it I said, THIS I can do! My kind of recipe. I love the slow cooker or things I can make ahead of time while baby is napping. Makes dinner time so much easier. Here goes! You guys will LOVE this recipe…

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