by Flora Caputo | Oct 4, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
#RGRrecipes #SlowCookerIronically, something funny happened last night around the art of slow cooking. My young Jr. Art Director at work told us that her boyfriend announced he was serving a pot roast for dinner in a crock pot. He told her at 5:30 p.m. Guess when he...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 2, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
So I am going to take a break from being all “militant mamma” with my Anatabloc/FDA petition to get back to one my favorite things, cooking. And one thing I love to do on busy, crisp fall days is pull out the slow cooker. Red Gold has developed some...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 23, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Have you ever been asked by a hostess to just “bring a side!” Bring a side. Should be easy right? Except usually it involves a vegetable or two, and the amount of people that either hate broccoli or green beans or cauliflower is in the hundreds of...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 16, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Ever have fruit that is past eating fresh, but not quite ready to be thrown away yet? And it’s just a pint or so of fruit?Well, put that guilt away my friend! Grab a clean glass jar and a saucepan and make yourself refrigerator jam/jelly.It’s so easy. and...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 9, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
There are still blueberries out there, fellow foodies! It’s not officially fall yet! But yes, I saw some woman post a picture of her garden in Calgary COVERED in snow yesterday. My heart skipped a beat. I am SO not ready for that noise. No, sir.So...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 7, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I know, I know.It’s pumpkin spice this and apple spice that. It seems after Labor Day, everyone is so anxious to get on the fall bandwagon.But summer is not officially over yet, peeps!And I am going down fighting. Here in Chicago, summer started late, so Mother...