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Sustaining the Powers

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Blogsgiving Dinner | Slow Cooker Sage Cornbread Dressing

November 13, 2015 by Steph Powers 1 Comment

This sage cornbread dressing recipe has been passed down for 4 generations, so you know it's good! It's been adapted for the slow cooker to save precious oven space on Thanksgiving day! Genius!

Since this week is Blogsgiving Dinner, I'm sharing this recipe for slow cooker sage cornbread dressing that comes from my Great Grandma! It's been adapted for the slow cooker to save precious oven space on Thanksgiving day.  This week is Blogsgiving Dinner around the web and I'm so excited to join in! Like Thanksgiving, the food blogging community is all about family, friends ...

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Filed Under: Bread, Holiday, Party, Personal, Recipes, Sides, Slow Cooker, Vegetarian Tagged With: Blogsgiving DInner, cornbread, dressing, family recipes, grandma dine, holiday, sage, slow cooker, special, stuffing, thanksgiving

Slow Cooker Ham and Spinach Frittata + Crocktober 2015 Meal Plan Week 4

October 26, 2015 by Steph Powers 9 Comments

This Slow Cooker Ham and Spinach Frittata recipe is perfect for your next brunch get together! Can you believe Crocktober 2015 is almost over already?! I've been having a blast coming up with new crockpot recipes for you each week, and you can bet I will keep coking in my crockpot at least once a week even after Crocktober is officially over. As is the case with many food bloggers, I have so many ...

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Filed Under: Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Meal Plan Monday, Recipes, Slow Cooker Tagged With: crocktober, Crocktober 2015, frittata, gluten-free, ham, meal plan, slow cooker, spinach

Crockpot Mason Jar Pumpkin Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal and Crocktober 2015 Meal Plan Week 3

October 19, 2015 by Steph Powers 5 Comments

Today I have a recipe for Crockpot Mason Jar Pumpkin Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal and your Crocktober 2015 Meal Plan Week 3! Phew! That's a mouthful of a recipe title isn't it? I think it might take longer to say the name of this recipe than it will take you to set it up to cook in your slow cooker. Earlier this year I shared my Ultimate Oatmeal recipe, so y'all already know that I love my oatmeal ...

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Filed Under: Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Meal Plan Monday, Simple, Slow Cooker, Vegetarian Tagged With: apple, cinnamon, crocktober2015, oatmeal, oats, pumpkin, slow cooker

Crocktober 2015 Meal Plan Week 2

October 12, 2015 by Steph Powers 2 Comments

Crocktober - Use your slow cooker daily for the whole month of October!

Your Crocktober 2015 Week 2 Meal Plan is here!  The Crocktober challenge is to use your slow cooker every day for the month of October. To help with that, I'm sharing slow cooker meal plans and new slow cooker recipes each week. Things have been a bit crazy here in the Powers house lately. For almost 2 months, I was not home for more than a week at a time before travelling somewhere new or ...

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Filed Under: Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Meal Plan Monday, Recipes, Slow Cooker Tagged With: Crocktober 2015, slow cooker

Game Day Queso, The Secret to Melty Cheese & a Crocktober Giveaway!

October 1, 2015 by Steph Powers 15 Comments

A recipe for Game Day Queso, the Secret to Melty Cheese, and a huge Crocktober Giveaway! Crocktober is here!!!! I am SO excited! October is finally here which means Fall is (hopefully) in the air, life is getting busy, and everyone is getting ready to bust out their slow cookers for the cooler weather. I love to celebrate "Crocktober" with an entire month of slow cooker recipes and meal ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Cooking Tips, Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Meat, Recipes, Sides, Slow Cooker, Snacks, TexMex Tagged With: Crocktober 2015, slow cooker

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup //Crocktober 2014 Week #4

October 20, 2014 by Steph Powers 18 Comments

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

 This Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup is a staple in our home come winter time. It has all the best flavors of chicken enchiladas and is a great way to use up some leftovers!   Can you believe we're on week 4 of Crocktober already? I'm not sure I'm going to be able to go back to regular cooking after this month is over. Do you think we can make Crockember a thing? In case you’re ...

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Filed Under: Chicken, Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Recipes, Simple, Slow Cooker, Soups, TexMex, Vegetarian Tagged With: artichokes, chicken, crocktober, jalapenos, mealplan, mealplanmonday, red beans and rice, slow cooker, teriyaki, texmex, tortilla soup

Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala // Crocktober 2014 Week #3

October 13, 2014 by Steph Powers 31 Comments

Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala -Crocktober Week 3. Think you need to slave for hours or open a jar to make awesome tikka masala? Think again! Your friends won't know this isn't take out! #glutenfree and easily #vegan or #vegetarian

This is the third week of Crocktober recipes for 2014. Recipes for this week are: Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala, Crock-Pot Sweet and Sour Chicken, Creamy Chops with Veggies, and  Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Soup.  Here's Crocktober Week 1, Week 2, and Week 4     Welcome back to another week of Crocktober! Have you all been enjoying this month as ...

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Filed Under: Chicken, Crocktober, Gluten-Free, Meat, Recipes, Simple, Slow Cooker Tagged With: chicken, crocktober2014, gluten-free, indian, slow cooker, tikka masala, walking dead

Slow Cooker Turkey Chili //Crocktober 2014 – Week #1

September 29, 2014 by Steph Powers 17 Comments

Turkey Chili

This is the first week of Crocktober recipes for 2014. Recipes for this week are: Turkey Chili, Orange Apricot Chicken, Chicken Parmesan Soup, and Lentil-Quinoa Taco Filling. Here's Crocktober Week 2, Week 3, and Week 4   I launched my blog almost a year ago during Crocktober and decided that another round of Crocktober would be a great way to celebrate Sustaining the Powers turning 1 year ...

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Filed Under: Recipes, Roundup, Slow Cooker Tagged With: crocktober, crocktober2014, roundup, slow cooker

Crock-Pot Corn Chowder with Parmesan Rind and Pancetta

February 15, 2014 by Steph Powers 15 Comments

Parmesan Rind Corn Chowder

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's Day! Hubby was gone on a business trip all last week, but he made sure to come home on Thursday night so we could spend most of Friday together. I'm still getting in the swing of working again and having dinner on the table, but my slow cooker/Crock-Pot has been helping a lot. (Side note: I know not all "slow cookers" are made by Crock-Pot, but can't we ...

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Filed Under: Recipes, Slow Cooker, Soups Tagged With: chowder, corn, cream of soup, pancetta, parmesan, slow cooker

Chicken Coconut Curry

October 19, 2013 by Steph Powers 6 Comments

We love having friends over for dinner. A few months ago, the couple we invited over informed us they were not able to eat dairy or gluten.  That threw my original plans for a loop since I never even think about the dairy or gluten content of my recipes.  I went on the search for something easy I could have ready on a weeknight and found this recipe for Chicken Coconut Curry in the slow ...

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Filed Under: Chicken, Recipes, Slow Cooker Tagged With: chicken, coconut milk, curry, indian, potatoes, rice, slow cooker

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