Slow cook recipes with 500 or fewer calories

Black Beans with Smoked Bacon (feijoada)

More often than not I prepare black beans vegetarian. However I wanted to compare them to a recipe from "South…

Kale and White Bean Soup

A Hearty Soup

Crock Pot Vegetable Fagioli Soup

Wow! This is one easy, awesome, satisfying soup that got a thumb’s up from my teenage daughter. That is high…

17 Bean Barley Soup Flavored with Smoked Ham Hocks and Spices

Hearty comfort food with Southern/Asian influences --17 bean and barley soup flavored with smoked ham hocks,…

CROCKPOT PIZZA MEATBALLS

Crock Pot Baked Potato Recipe

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…

Thai Curry Carrot Soup with Pickled Vegetables

A couple of years ago I had gone to Epcot's International food and wine festival. While at a cooking…

German Style Green Beans

Curry Goat

I was watching a cookery program and the presenter was speaking to an old West Indian man and were discussing various dishes. He mentioned Curry…

Sunday Sugo Rosso (Red Sauce)

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…

Zesty Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

Butternut Squash Soup

This is an easy,healthy, tasty recipe using seasonal butternut squash. It's so good on a chilly fall night! I microwave the squash for 2 minutes…

Crockpot Breakfast Quinoa

Quinoa is one of my favorite things to eat for lunch and/or dinner and now breakfast too! I was not at all sure how this was going to cook up and…

Crock Pot Irish Tribute

I think we all know that cabbage and potatoes are part of the Irish food heritage. But, shrimp, or “prawns” as they are more often called in…

Crock pot lentil soup

I love lentil soup and I must not be alone in that love because when I used to buy canned soup I loved a particular brand’s lentil soup and it was…