Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Roasted Chicken in the Crockpot

Roasted Chicken in a Crockpot! This has become one of my favorite weeknight meals because it's easy, inexpensive, beautiful, nutritious, and delicious. 

Easy: the crockpot does most of the work, and since it keeps the bird moist, it's almost impossible to overcook it! Plus, the potatoes are cooked with the bird, all in one pot! You don't have to crisp up the chicken in the oven, but this step is the money-maker in my book. Do it. 

Inexpensive: I purchased this organic, free-range chicken at Natural Grocers for $11, and it fed my hubby, 2-year-old, and me for 2 meals, plus left overs for my pizza the next night! That's less than $2 per serving! People are often deterred from healthy eating because they have been led to believe that it has to be expensive. Nope! 

Beautiful: I mean, just look at this gorgeous bird! If your family doesn't like bone-in, just pull/shred the chicken before you serve like I do. 

Nutritious: meet off the bone has SO many nutrients that we are deficient in, including higher collagen and other essential fatty acids, and the skin from a humanely-raised and minimally processed chicken is also packed full of nutrients that help you recover and age amazingly. Buy and eat the whole bird! And save the bones to make broth (which I'll show you how to do in the next video!). 

Delicious: this method of cooking gives you tender, juicy meat with a crispy skin to feast on. Mouth watering yet? I didn't do this, but you could also make gravy from the juices in the crockpot. Boom.

Are you ready for a winner, winner, chicken dinner?! 

Sweet Potato Pizza Crust

Sweet Potato Pizza Crust!
This 3-ingredient recipe is the easiest, yummiest, most pizza-est healthy pizza crust I've EVER made (and I've made a LOT of pizza crusts, y'all)! Wednesday night is Pizza Night in our house, and for the longest time I sadly ate my lame, soggy cauliflower crust, or had to spend hours making crusts, or just gave up and ate left-overs. 😭 And that made hubby sad, which totally defeats the point of Pizza Night! But then I found this gem... Because you don't have to precook the sweet potato, this crust takes about 10 minutes to make, no joke, with ingredients you probably already have in the kitchen! It does require 30 minutes to bake, so I usually make the crusts, freeze them, and then pull them out for pizza night. 

I top mine with homemade pesto, pepperoni, leftover/frozen chicken or ground beef, goat cheese, garlic, and Italian seasoning.



We grill pizza on the smoker at or house, and 8-10 minutes crisps the pizza to perfection. Probably re best part is you can pick this crust up and hold it, like a store-bought pizza!

This will change your life! Or at least Pizza Night!


Spaghetti Squash in the Crockpot

Spaghetti (Squash) in a CrockPot! I looooove spaghetti, but 1: Regular spaghetti noodles do bad things to the body, 2: Gluten-free noodles do bad things to my taste buds, 3: The prep and clean-up can be SUCH a mess. This one-pot recipe solves all those problems! Spaghetti Squash will blow your mind if you've never tried it before - when cooked right, the consistency really is just like spaghetti!
Now, you can roast spaghetti squash (400 degrees for 30 min or so), which I love, but the ease of #crockpotlife makes this busy mom go hallelujah (in Italian)! 🍝




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