Frugal Foodie Mama: Ninja slow cooker

Monday, July 14, 2014

Welcome to Slow Cooking Through Summer Week! {& A Ninja 3-in-1 Cooking System Giveaway!}

Slow Cooking Through Summer Week & a Ninja 3-in-1 Cooking System Giveaway via thefrugalfoodiemama.com & friends
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I use my slow cooker all year-round, but summers are really made for slow cooking.  
They keep the kitchen cooler on hot summer days because you can give the oven and stove the day off.
And just about any slow cooker recipe allows you to just throw it all in and forget it, leaving you free to enjoy a day in the sun poolside.
And bonus? You still get to come home to a slow cooked, delicious meal already prepared and ready to dish out!

This is my second summer celebrating the all mighty slow cooker by hosting an entire week dedicated to all things slow cooker.
This summer I am bringing along a few of my closest food blogger friends who will be sharing delicious slow cooker recipes all this week.
Be sure to stop by their blogs each day this week and see what they have been slow cooking up for you all! :)

Monday, June 16, 2014

Double Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs

These tender & flavorful Double Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs simmer away in your slow cooker all day...


These tender & flavorful Double Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs simmer away in your slow cooker all day.
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I believe that every food blogger, every chef, and every home cook has a food nemesis or two. You all know what I am talking about- those dishes and recipes that just never seem to come out right no matter how many times you try it or how many methods you give a go.

You vow that you are finished. You will never, ever waste your time trying to make that dish again. If you want it bad enough, you will just resort to pre-made or take-out.
Because you are done.

Believe it or not, one of my recipe nemeses is homemade meatballs. They either come out too tough or they simply fall apart until they resemble something like more of a meat sauce.
And given my father's very Italian family, one would expect that I would just naturally and genetically rock at making meatballs from scratch. But sadly that is not the truth.

In my defense, most of the women in my father's family passed away when I was much too young to learn their recipes and family secrets. Although, my dad swears that my great grandmother would have never shared her secret recipe anyways... 

I received renewed confidence to try making homemade meatballs once again when my shiny new Ninja 3-in-1 Cooking System arrived on my doorstep.  
Seriously, all. 

This was going to be my one last time, all-in, last ditch go at that them.  If I couldn't make meatballs work with this awesome piece of culinary cookware, then I was just not meant to ever make a decent from scratch meatball in my lifetime.