Sausage Minestrone – Slow Cooker

Simple slow cooker recipe. Use oval 6 to 7 quart slow cooker.

1-pound Italian sausage, sweet or mild

2 tablespoons oil, olive oil is best

1 medium onion, I used a red onion, but any will work

3 carrots

3 stalks of celery

2 teaspoons Italian seasoning

1 can great northern beans or 2 cups cooked till tender great northern beans

6 cups water and 3 chicken bouillon cubs or enough powder bouillon to make 3 cups or 6 cups broth

1 package potato gnocchi or 1 recipe homemade gnocchi

Parmesan cheese to serve

Cook sausage in oil with garlic and onion until sausage is browned and onions are soft. Add to crock pot with all ingredients except gnocchi and parmesan. Ook on low 8 to 10 hours. Durning last hour of cooking increase heat on crockpot to high and add potato gnocchi. Serve with parmesan. Makes 6 servings

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Frozen Bread Rolls – Slow Cooker

Simple slow cooker recipe. use oval slower cooker 6 to 7 quart 12 Rhodes (or similar brand) frozen bread rolls Spray oil Spray slow cooker with spray oil. Arrange frozen rolls in crock. Refrigerate and rise overnight if you want to bake rolls in the morning or arrange in the morning and rise though day if you wish fresh rolls cooked in the evening. Cover slow cooker and rise in refrigerator for 8 to 12 hours. The rolls should be double in size. Let slow cooker crock sit at room temperature at least one hour before starting to bake. Bake rolls for 1 hour on high. Makes 12 rolls

My history with Slow Cooking

I became interested in slow cooking shortly after getting married. I married on the younger end of the age spectrum, I was 24. I met my partner in 2012. He had two growing boys already and within the first year of marriage our family was already expanding as we became pregnant with our first child. We were large on family short on money but filled with all the love in the world. At this time my husband worked, and I stayed at home. Already I had been interested in cooking and had attended a technical school for culinary arts. At school, however, we always had the right ingredients in the right amounts available. Now as a young mother, I was trying to balance meals without unlimited access to ingredients. I also lived in a desert and I quickly realized how hot my house was getting each evening when I had the oven on trying to roll out meals. Of course there was also the electric bill that was climbing. Prior to marriage, my partner had primarily made frozen tv dinners. I wanted to...

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