October 7, 2011
Slow Cooker Chicken + Emeril Lagasse Cookbook Giveaway!
Would it be weird to admit that I’ve always wanted a bear hug from Emeril Lagasse?
He seems like he’d give great hugs. And from what I’ve heard, he’s super nice and genuine. I’d love to sit at a bar stool in his kitchen, chat with him, and watch him cook. So would about a million other people, I think.
When I had the opportunity to review Emeril’s newest book,
Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, I figure that’s about as close as I’m going to get to the man himself. Not only did I get to review this book, but I’m giving one away to one of you! (Details below. It’s pretty painless, I promise.) This will be the first of several cookbook giveaways this fall!
This book is packed with fantastic-looking dishes that, I’m sure, taste as great as they look. Although it’s a “one-pot” book, most of the recipes have long ingredient lists and lots of steps. It’s not a book I’d turn to on a Wednesday night at 5:30 looking for something quick. Nor is it a book I’d gather ideas from if I’m watching my diet. But it’s definitely a book I’d turn to if I’ve got dinner guests on the weekend. Or a family gathering to prepare for.
Kind of comes with the territory. Emeril isn’t known for doing 30-minute meals. He is known for knocking socks off, though.
I’ve got a shopping list filled with recipes stuck in this book. I hope I can get to all of them before I die. I’d especially love to try his Southern Chicken and Dumplings, Indian-Inspired Beef, Cheese Soup with Chicken & Peppers, and Cheese Enchiladas with Smoky Sauce. (Seems I’m craving cheese lately.)
I did try Emeril’s Mulligatawny, though, with high hopes. I love the
Mulligatawny recipe I have here on the blog, so I wanted to try Emeril’s spin on it.
Took longer than I thought it was going to, but it was delicious! It wasn’t pureed like the other Mulligatawny, but thick and chunky. Packed with vegetables and Indian spices, even my kids devoured it.
I also tried Chicken in the Pot, which is a great slow cooker recipe for whole chickens! There’s a whole chapter in this book dedicated to slow cooker recipes. It seems everyone’s clambering for those lately. The recipe for this chicken is below as well as the info for the cookbook giveaway. Good luck!!If you’d like to read more about this book, check out the review I did on
Reading for Sanity!
Chicken in the Pot
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients:
One 4-pound whole chicken, excess fat removed, rinsed and patted dry
1 T kosher salt
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 T butter
4 ounces applewood smoked bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
2 medium onions, chopped into large pieces
1 celery stalk, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 3/4 pounds new potatoes
4 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
1 T dried thyme, crumbled between your fingers
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 T chopped fresh parsley leaves, for serving
Directions:
Season the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper. Tuck the wings behind the back and tie the legs together with kitchen twine.
In a Dutch oven large enough to hold the chicken, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook, stirring as needed, until the fat is rendered and the bacon is crispy. Transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate and set aside.
Place the chicken on its back in the Dutch oven. Cook until nicely browned, 4-5 minutes. Carefully turn the chicken onto its breast and brown for 4-5 minutes longer. (Stick the handle of a long wooden spoon into the cavity of the chicken to help you maneuver it.) Turn the chicken on its side and cook for 4-5 minutes, then repeat on the other side. Transfer the browned chicken to the crock of a 6-quart slow cooker.
Add the carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, garlic, and thyme to the Dutch oven. Cook, stirring as needed, until the vegetables are nicely glazed, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and transfer the vegetables to the slow cooker, scattered around and under the chicken so that everything will fit. Add the bacon and wine. Cover, set the slow cooker on high, and cook until the chicken and vegetables are very tender, about 4 hours. Remove the chicken from the slow cooker and set aside to rest for 15 minutes before serving.
Using a large spoon, divide the vegetables and broth among serving bowls. You will able to portion the chicken easily with the spoon. Lay the chicken pieces over the vegetables. Sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately.
Makes 4-6 servings.
Nat's Notes:
1. I thought this was a little heavy on the onions. I would half the onions and add a few more carrots next time.
2. I used chicken stock instead of wine.
3. It only took 3 hours for this to cook in my 6-quart oval slow cooker.
from Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders by Emeril Lagasse
Sizzling Skillets Giveaway Info
To Enter:
Simply leave a comment on this post and answer the question:
What’s your favorite one-pot meal?
A few little details…
1. Comments will close on Monday October 10, 2011 at 9PM PST. I’ll use a random number generator to choose one winner who I will contact and announce here on the 11th. If I don’t get a response from the winner after three days I’ll pick a new one.
2. One entry per person. As much as I love having new
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3. Contest open to US residents only.
4. Leave a way for me to contact you. I shout this from the rooftops every time I do a giveaway, but every time over a quarter of the entries are those who I cannot reach. If your Blogger profile is private or you do not have an email address/active blog listed, please leave your email address or send me an email at perrysplate [at] gmail [dot] com after you leave a comment so I have your contact info.
William Morrow (HarperCollins) provided my copy of Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders as well as the giveaway copy. As always, opinions shared are 100% mine.***COMMENTS HAVE BEEN CLOSED! THANKS FOR PLAYING :)***
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warmvanillasugar — October 7, 2011 @ 10:31 am
I love a good one pot chili. Especially now that it's fall!
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Kelsy — October 7, 2011 @ 11:43 am
I love goulash. It's the perfect meal to cure that deep cold on a winter day. My grandmother taught me how to make it when I was 10 so it has some sentimental meaning as well. I like mine super chunky with venison sausage :)
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Evelyn R — October 7, 2011 @ 12:14 pm
We love black bean soup, especially now that the weather is cooler.
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chaksmix — October 7, 2011 @ 12:22 pm
Chicken Paprika- easy, quick and delicious.
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Nicole — October 7, 2011 @ 12:27 pm
My favorite one-pot meal is definitely corn and kielbasa chowder. I just made something last night with kielbasa, and husband thought I was making the chowder just because he saw the kielbasa! I guess I should make it again soon. It's great for cooler weather.
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Sweet Virginia — October 7, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
I think one of my favorites would have to be a spin on a Rachel Ray recipe for chicken, rice, and leek stoup!
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UTCarly — October 7, 2011 @ 12:59 pm
I have a white chicken chili-amazing!
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Kristin — October 7, 2011 @ 1:14 pm
SOUP. Any kind of warm, comforting soup.
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Wanna Be A Country Cleaver — October 7, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
Ooo my favorite one pot meal is my grandma's Czech Pork Shoulder. Braised for hours in a dutch oven and swimming in onions and beer. Goner!!
~Megan P. "Wanna Be A Country Cleaver"
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evanoff — October 7, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
My favorite one pot is Shepherds Pie! So comforting…
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Cinaed67 — October 7, 2011 @ 2:12 pm
Corn beef and potatos!!!
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Jan — October 7, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
with this COLD weather I've got soup on my brain… I'd have to say tomato basil soup
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Emily — October 7, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
My mom's chili recipe! emily.jean.hansen@gmail.com
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Gina K — October 7, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
I make a one pot Guinness and beef stew that is fabulous!
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jpetroroy — October 7, 2011 @ 2:53 pm
My husband makes a mean chili.
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Susannah — October 7, 2011 @ 2:57 pm
It may sound boring or traditional, but my favorite one pot meal has got to be chili! It's so versatile, you can make chili to suit just about anyone's taste!
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Love from Scratch — October 7, 2011 @ 3:06 pm
I have so many but with it being so cold right now, I'd have to say loaded baked potato soup. Love the blog its beautiful!
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Lauren's Latest — October 7, 2011 @ 3:07 pm
White chicken chili!
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Kruti — October 7, 2011 @ 3:15 pm
I love this Indian dish called Bhaji Pao (or Pao Bhaji). It's a bunch of vegetables with all sorts of spices. A bowl of that with a potato bun & you've made my night!
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Heather M — October 7, 2011 @ 3:24 pm
Ooh, I love new cookbooks! My favorite one pot dish is this mexican meal we make with chicken, rice, salsa, beans, and taco seasoning. It is super fast, easy, and yummy, and the kids love it!
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Krystal Perry - Boyer — October 7, 2011 @ 3:30 pm
Chilli I love spicey homemade chilli on these extra cold days. Ilovemyboys0902@yahoo.com
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Sare — October 7, 2011 @ 3:48 pm
I love tomato and basil soup. mmmm
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The Double Dipped Life — October 7, 2011 @ 5:10 pm
I love Taco Soup! Yum! I want to try the Mulligatawny soup recipe, it looks fabulous!
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Teslaca — October 7, 2011 @ 5:12 pm
Just made a pot of red lentils with cauliflower and potatoes this morning. It's one of my favorite one pot dishes. This time it's flavored with some coconut milk and curry powder along with lots of onions and garlic. Yum!
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gwen — October 7, 2011 @ 5:53 pm
Risotto is definitely my favorite one-pot dish. I had a phenomenal apple-bacon risotto at a restaurant in town recently, and I'm dying to recreate it at home – but I'm a little scared it won't be as good.
Thanks for the chance to win, Natalie!
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James and Monica — October 7, 2011 @ 6:03 pm
Hi from Hawaii!! :D I like anything that I can make in the crockpot, that's my one pot.
Thanks Nat!
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JuLo — October 7, 2011 @ 6:32 pm
Hm, I guess my favorite one pot meal is something like chili. Spicy, satisfying, flavorful, and impossible to mess up. ;)
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Debbie — October 7, 2011 @ 6:36 pm
I would LOVE a Grenadian Oil Down! Bring on the breadfruit! Living in Wyoming means no breadfruit or callalou for me!
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Babs — October 7, 2011 @ 6:38 pm
My favorite one pot since it is getting colder, is beef stew.
Babs
bggeorge1@gmail.com
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Anonymous — October 7, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
I have a simple slow cooker pot roast recipe that fills the house with a wonderful smell and warms up a chilly night!
Fthorngate@yahoo.com
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Emma Straley — October 7, 2011 @ 7:41 pm
I'd have to say beef stew.
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Saramiah — October 7, 2011 @ 7:50 pm
My favorite one pot meal is corn chowder. I love it is the summer and early fall with fresh corn.
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Meredith — October 7, 2011 @ 8:08 pm
American Chop Suey
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Cookin' Canuck — October 7, 2011 @ 9:28 pm
I adore the ease of one-pot meals. Chili and curry are our favorites.
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Jeff — October 7, 2011 @ 9:35 pm
My favorite one pot meal is minestrone soup! Yum!
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Frontier Mom — October 7, 2011 @ 10:50 pm
Although I have a few favorites, I'd probably have to go with my Gram's chicken noodle soup. Says home to me.
~Cynthia
carolinaclare@hotmail.com
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tyumenqueen — October 7, 2011 @ 10:52 pm
Roast with potatoes, carrots and onions and onion gravy!
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Kari — October 7, 2011 @ 10:59 pm
I love slow cooker beef stew.
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Julia @ 1001tealcranes — October 7, 2011 @ 11:31 pm
Kalua Pork. Hands down. Super easy and wonderfully tasty!
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Joanne — October 8, 2011 @ 12:56 am
I've been craving chili like…NONSTOP lately so I'm going to have to go with chili. I've seen this book everywhere and all the recipes look so good!
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Anonymous — October 8, 2011 @ 1:04 am
Chili!
-Britt T.
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Erika — October 8, 2011 @ 1:07 am
We call it Oktoberfest! It has potatoes, onions, kielbasa sausage, broccoli, carrots and of course BACON! So delicious!
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Heather — October 8, 2011 @ 1:41 am
We love to make homemade beef stroganoff. A big pot of Yummy!
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Jen — October 8, 2011 @ 3:06 am
Taco soup. Not the healthiest recipe in the book, but darn good. p.s. I love your blog!!!!
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Kathryn — October 8, 2011 @ 3:08 am
This is just another reason why I need one of those larger, oval slow cookers! Maybe I could do it in my dutch oven?
I have so many one pot meals that I like, it's hard to pick just one. but right now, I'm craving acorn squash soup :9
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Ann — October 8, 2011 @ 4:05 am
Natalie the chicken looks amazing! Thanks for the giveaway! I have to say my favorite one pot meal is Pot Roast…there's something about it that is so homey and it smells SO good!
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Leah — October 8, 2011 @ 4:41 am
Pulled Pork! Greta on buns. Great on quesadillas. Great all on its own!
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Emily — October 8, 2011 @ 4:49 am
I love to make beef stew, it only uses one pot, plus it's a great way to clean out the fridge!
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Danielle — October 8, 2011 @ 2:15 pm
My favorite is pot roast, yum!
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Anonymous — October 8, 2011 @ 2:48 pm
Terry says : My favorite one pot dish .. Tuscan stew .. Yum and very good for the upcoming cold weather
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mike @ the culinary lens — October 8, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
I am a big fan of my mother's Dublin Coddle
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T Turner — October 8, 2011 @ 2:52 pm
Chicken noodle soup with lot's of fresh vegetables and thick homemade noodles!
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Cooking With Abandon — October 8, 2011 @ 2:54 pm
tortilla soup!
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Rebecca — October 8, 2011 @ 3:04 pm
You convinced me to enter. Favorite one-pot dish? Tough one, but it's hard to beat a good chili (with a side of cornbread, of course!) I think you have my email, or at least William's. :)
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Kelly — October 8, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
My favorite one-pot meal is ham and scalloped potato casserole. Nothing brings back memories of my mom better…
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Anonymous — October 8, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
I have tried posting this yesterday, but it has not shown up so I am trying again.
My favorite is always chicken soup with escarole, similar to Italian Wedding Soup. It seems we are all in the mood for comfort food.
Thanks for posting the Mulligatawny recipe. I will be making that this weekend.
Lori
rid22971@verizon.net
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Laurie — October 8, 2011 @ 3:41 pm
Great recipes!
I absolutely love a pot of stew, especially in this fall season, nothing more enticing than a pot of root vegetable stew and home baked biscuits!
Would love to win this cookbook!
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Judy — October 8, 2011 @ 4:28 pm
Chili. As a matter of fact, I'm getting ready to fix some right now. I would also love a bear hug from Emeril so you are not so strange.
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Carly — October 8, 2011 @ 5:31 pm
So have you seen the Elmo show that has Emeril on it? It's one of my son's favorites. He does seem like he'd give a great hug.
I suddenly everything I think of uses more than one pot. I know I have some one-pot meals I make…. Mostly those are crock pot meals. Let's see, how about crock pot stew. Always a winner.
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Jayne — October 8, 2011 @ 6:59 pm
I think ill make this recipe tonight. Favorite one-pot dish? I really live vegetable lasagna.
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Marie — October 8, 2011 @ 8:46 pm
My favorite would have to be a thick and hearty chili, hands down! I love to make it and I especially love eating it. It only gets better the next day too :)
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Jen at The Three Little Piglets — October 8, 2011 @ 9:33 pm
Beef Stew – particulary Paula Deen's Beef Stew from her very first cookbook. It's one of THE best I have ever eaten. And I've eaten a LOT of beef stew! I totally want to bear hug Mario Batali myself, and then make pasta with him and eat until I can't move…
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Leigh — October 8, 2011 @ 10:32 pm
My favorite is a recipe for Sausage Minestrone I found once on foodnetwork.com It is easy to make, and packed with veggies!
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Michele — October 9, 2011 @ 12:52 am
I have this amazing Cafe Beaujolius recipe for Black Bean Chili.
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Mb — October 9, 2011 @ 6:10 am
chili!
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Heather — October 9, 2011 @ 2:54 pm
I have a greek chicken pasta I use rotisserie chicken for! My boyfriend asks for it every week!
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shayna — October 9, 2011 @ 4:21 pm
I love a good hearty stew with beef, potatoes, carrots, and whatever else I feel like. Love it!
shaynamarie91@hotmail.com
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CarrieM — October 9, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
I love to cook meat for tacos in the slow cooker, like mexican pot roast tacos by tyler florence. carrie dot hare @gmail.com
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Erika — October 9, 2011 @ 8:04 pm
chicken and dumplings. YUM-O!
thai_sister@hotmail.com
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babiesdoc — October 9, 2011 @ 10:52 pm
Chili , any kind
Last week we had black bean and roasted butternut squash chili
and today white chicken, tomatillo, and chickpea chili
thanks
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susitravl — October 10, 2011 @ 2:40 am
Chicken & Noodles.
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Lorraine — October 10, 2011 @ 3:09 am
I love green chili! (Chile verde)
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Virginia — October 10, 2011 @ 4:40 am
Chicken Enchilada Soup!
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Rachel — October 10, 2011 @ 6:16 am
Hungarian Stew – yum.
rachel.crowell@email.wsu.edu
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Rosemary — October 10, 2011 @ 11:50 am
I love one-pot meals of all kinds, chilis, stews, soups. I'd have to say that my new favorite, though, is white chicken chili. I started making it only last year and adore it. (Mr. Rosemary would vote for pork and sauerkraut with kielbasi.)
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Emily — October 10, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
Chicken cacciatore or beef stew. It's a hard choice. I love one-pot meals, especially the long-simmering kind. They make the house smell amazing!
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Cathe Olson — October 10, 2011 @ 1:51 pm
I love one pot soups and stews . . . my fave? Hard to pick . . . maybe Tortilla Soup?
cathe@simplynaturalbooks.com
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Andrea — October 10, 2011 @ 2:32 pm
Love me a big pot of beef stew!
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Jamie — October 10, 2011 @ 4:01 pm
Taco Soup is my fave!
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Alina — October 10, 2011 @ 4:32 pm
Simply love chicken cacciatore :)
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Anonymous — October 10, 2011 @ 6:08 pm
A good brisket slow cooked is amazing!!
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Patricia Pamplona — October 10, 2011 @ 6:12 pm
An awesome ARROZ A BANDA, I like it even more than a spectacular PAELLA, and my dad is from Valencia, so I'm not easily content !! ;o)
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Cassie Crosby — October 10, 2011 @ 6:14 pm
My favorite is a pot of hearty white chicken chili!!!
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Anonymous — October 10, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
Chipotle Chocolate Chili – so easy and delicious!
Amanda
aesolecki(at)gmail(dot)com
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jordanrae — October 10, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
chili!!
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Derek and Tristin Johnson — October 10, 2011 @ 10:49 pm
It's got to be soup. Pasta e-figoli (spelling?) is my current fav.
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Sarah — October 10, 2011 @ 11:39 pm
Simple – brisket! There's nothing better, especially in the fall :)
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Janssen — October 11, 2011 @ 2:07 am
Artichoke and Mushroom Orzo. Yum!
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Diane Lengyel — October 11, 2011 @ 2:12 am
I love scalloped potatoes and ham casserole…nothing else satisfies so well.
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Michelle Norton — October 11, 2011 @ 2:16 am
Chicken Tortilla soup…..yumm!
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Melissa Shore — October 11, 2011 @ 2:45 am
Paleo chilli!!!
MB Shore
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Cara — October 11, 2011 @ 2:52 am
My husband would certainly appreciate it if I could contain our meals to one pot :)
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