Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea Watching this dish cook was sort of like watching an alien egg grow. It just kept getting bigger and bigger. I was skeptical about cooking eggs in the slow cooker, but it seemed to do the job. You start off by spreading a [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea You start off this dish by frying cubes of cornstarch-tossed tofu in butter. Once the tofu develops a bit of a crust, you put it in the slow cooker, then pour in a sauce made of orange juice, soy sauce, garlic and [...]

This is my go-to recipe whenever I have an excess of lemons. It’s fast and easy. I discovered the recipe several years ago in a book by Alice Medrich called Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts. Sometimes I find lemon curds to be either too eggy or really rich. This lemon curd only [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea I love cooking turkey breasts. With only two of us in the house, a full turkey is too much; we get tired of eating turkey long before we run out. A breast is just the right size. We get a couple of [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea Who can resist a recipe nicknamed candy chicken? Add a vegetable and it’s like having your dessert built right in. So, brown sugar chicken. It’s pretty much what it sounds like. You slow cook chicken thighs (I used skinless, boneless frozen thighs) [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea So, I apparently didn’t take any pictures of this fish dish. But I’m sure you can imagine it. White fish with green stuff smeared across the top. Once again, I used mahi mahi, but unlike the parmesan fish dish, I defrosted the [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea These smelled yummy as they were cooking, but the final product was just okay. For me, these veggies were an excuse to consume massive amounts of sour cream. It wasn’t pretty. The dish is pretty simple. You cut a small green cabbage [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea We had mixed reviews on this dish. I really liked it, but Bryan didn’t. He thought it was bland and kinda boring. I added a lot of salt and pepper to mine and thought it was quite tasty. You take ground turkey [...]

Peanut butter AND chocolate chips AND oatmeal? Overkill? I don’t think so. Neither did anybody who tried these cookies. I found the original recipe on www.browneyedbaker.com and made my first batch exactly as the recipe was written. Then I decided to experiment a little bit. My first change was to use chunky peanut butter instead [...]

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea No pictures of this dish because, although it was tasty, it was ugly. White fish with white sauce on white rice? Nope, not happening. O’Dea says that even people who don’t like fish will like this recipe. I believe her. You begin [...]