Fast Ribs in a Slow Cooker

Slow Cooking Pork Ribs - The Fast Way!

A fast dish, from a slow cooker?  This guy has gone off the deep end, you're maybe thinking.  I haven't actually - and using this unique method, you can take a dish that usually needs a bare minimum of 3 hours, and make it ready in that same three hours, but it will taste more like it's been slow cooking for five. 

Here's how...

Kicking Butt at Scalloped Potatoes

Pulling off some tasty scalloped potatoes. A recipe so easy anyone can do it. 

Of all the time consuming and kitchen messing potato dishes you can make, Scalloped potatoes are probably the most time consuming, and messy. There are more than a handful of steps, and a few pots and pans needed to pull it off, but when you do - people will talk about it.  Just about everyone loves a good scalloped potato, so take a look at this recipe that is sure to impress. 

These scalloped potatoes make an excellent side dish for the fall and winter, especially with roasts, and daring mid-winter barbecues. 

read on for the recipe!

A Meal at Home : Thai Green Coconut Curry with Chicken

Closeup view of our green thai curry chicken dish on rice noodles

We had been craving some Thai food lately, and being in the rural area we were, our selection isn't that big. So we opted for a nice Thai meal at home. It was so delicious I thought I should share here for anyone who wants a little bit of this delicious Thai Spice in their life.

Recipe : Homemade Hot Sauce

Two jars of home made hot sauce. Mouth watering just looking at them.

Ok. We love hot sauce. So maybe in order to be more specific, we should call this recipe "Home Made Hot Sauce I" because there are plenty of delicious ways to mix one of these up.  This one was just packed full of flavour and enough heat to get you sweating in the face when you use it to dip your pizza in. 

Mouth watering yet?

Fresh Recipe Ideas : Snap Peas

Sweet Sugar Snap Peas from the Garden

As a first time gardener, I have to say - it's so amazing that sugar snap peas taste amazing because they grow oh so easily!  So you better have a few tricks up your sleeve for cooking these suckers! (for when you don't want to snack on them raw anyways)

The Perfect Beef Jerky Recipe : Classic Style

This really is the perfect beef jerky recipe.  I made it with regular beef steak that I happened upon while shopping for camping, and it was on sale, so bonus!

Read more for this super simple dehydrator recipe!