Friday 16 January 2015

3 hearty slow-cooker recipes

Crock-Pot lovers! Make these 3 great slow-cooker recipes

Have a jam-packed day? Unsure when you'll be able to squeeze in dinner? It's time to take out the Crock-Pot.Start your morning (or night) off by making any of these slow-cooker recipes from The New York Times' Melissa Clark. She joined TODAY Tuesday morning to demonstrate preparations for overnight chicken bone broth, chicken paprikash, and beef and root vegetable stew.

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Cook like Padma Lakshmi for under $20: One-dish sausage with rice and lentils

What's better than dinner for four for under $20? How about a one-dish dinner for four for under $20? Here, Padma Lakshmi shares her easy recipe for protein-packed sausage with rice and lentils. Want to vary it? Lakshmi says you can substitute all sorts of beans for the lentils. Vegetarian? No problem. Just drop the sausage from this flexible recipe.

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Dinner and tips included: Make these paleo meals that will cost you under $20

The paleo diet — whose adherents aim to mimic the eating style of our paleolithic ancestors by cutting out processed foods, grains and legumes and focusing instead on fresh vegetables, fruit, grass-fed meats and wild seafood — has been getting hotter and hotter over the past few years. But even ardent paleo devotees admit that the diet can be expensive and complicated to follow.

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