Slow Cooker

[zarhooie]

I've had a friend ask about tricks for slow-cookers. Do you have any? What are your favorite recipes?

My mom's chili recipe under the cut!
( This stuff *defines* omnomnom )

-Kat

Summer Greens Pesto

[indeliblesasha]

Suffering from an over-abundance of summer greens? If you shop farmer's markets or have a CSA farm-share I imagine that (for those of you in summer climates) you are like me and looking at the rampant piles of beet tops and kale and chard and lettuce and despairing of ever finding enough recipes to not be utterly sick of these things by the time fall rolls around.

"How can I possibly cook ALL OF THESE BEET TOPS when half my family won't eat them and I am really pretty sick of "wilted greens with lemon/oil/garlic/basil/pasta" myself!? Let's not even get started on eating two salads a day and still losing some of the lettuce to wilting before it gets eaten..."

Solution! Make pesto. (I can't help you with the lettuce. We actually didn't even take our bag of lettuce this week because we still have enough to get us through ANOTHER WEEK. It's insane.)

( Here's how I make pesto, long-winded details and explanations followed by concise step by step, )