Healthy Cooking Basics

Can you cook healthier and still balance a busy family life ?  Of course you can – below are some tips on how to integrate eating better with cooking for a family.
A basic mistake many people make when trying healthy cooking for the first time is attempting recipes that are too complicated for the average [...]

Slow Cooker Recipe for French Cassoulet

Cassoulet is a rustic, French dish, with its origins in French peasant cooking.  Many different regions of France claim their own variation of the recipe, whose name comes from the type of dish the cassole, a deep, round, earthenware pot with slanting sides it’s prepared in.  All the versions contain the white bean (haricots blancs [...]

Recipe for Slow Cooker Bologonese Sauce

There is nothing like a rich and hearty bologonese sauce to chase these last bits of winter away. And this version can be prepared using a slow cooker, so you start it early in the day and have a rich, hearty meal at the end of the day.
This version of the classic Italian [...]