Pressure Cooker Ground Beef Chili with Carrots and Red and Orange Bell Pepper (Chili serves 8-10) I went through a chili phase several years ago when I first learned to make chili, but then moved on to other “phases.” I just made up this recipe with ingredients I had in my kitchen and am now inspired to begin a new chili phase. I don’t know why I let so many months go by without making some. The taste is fabulous and chili...

Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Mild White and Medium Spicy Kimchi (Serves 1) Kimchi is a tradition Korean dish of fermented vegetables. You could say that kimchi is Korean sauerkraut and sauerkraut is German kimchi, but kimchi traditionally includes a variety of vegetables and not just cabbage. Cabbage may dominate most recipes, but kimchi almost always includes 3 or 4 more veggies like carrots, green onions, daikon radish, etc. Whole Foods...

Four-Hour Pot Roast over Wilted Greens (Serves 6-8) I forgot to start a roast in the slow cooker before I went to church on Sunday. I realized my mistake when I got home, but rather than going out to buy some ground beef or a steak, I decided to cook a roast in the oven and get it done in three or four hours. Now this was an act of faith in two ways. I had not roasted meat in the oven in several years and my roast was frozen. I wasn’t...

Beef in Tomato-Poblano Salsa (Serves 6-8) Deborah Schneider’s recipe for Pollo en Salsa in The Mexican Slow Cooker (available in my online Store) inspired my Beef in Tomato-Poblano Salsa. It is easy to make and reminds me of really good Ropa Vieja that I used to enjoy at a Cuban restaurant. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 8 hours Ingredient list: 1 beef roast (mine was a 3 pound shoulder roast) 1 28-ounce can of tomatoes 1 14-ounce...

Pulled Roast Beef with Scalloped Turnips (Serves 1-2) I have not done anything new in the kitchen for months. I have cooked three times per day and enjoyed many great meals, but all of them have been established standards or extensions of established standards. Until today, that is, when I made scalloped turnips with pulled roast beef. My experiment with thinly sliced turnips, ghee, and spices turned out to be the best thing I have eaten in...

Slow Cooker Freestyle Rabbit Curry (Serves 4-8) My farmer had just processed four rabbits when I arrived to pickup vegetables and eggs on Saturday morning, so I brought one home with me and created a freestyle rabbit curry in the slow cooker. I call it freestyle because I did not consult my earlier recipe for rabbit curry, but made up a new curry recipe off the top of my head that I liked even better. This one tasted lighter even though I...

Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Smoked Jalapeno Sauerkraut (Serves 1) Smoked Jalapeno Sauerkraut is the most amazing food I’ve found in a long time. I should make it my mission to develop 10 new recipes using it, but meanwhile I am eating it with slow cooker roast and loving it. This recipe does not really add anything new to my collection, but I wanted you to know how good the Smoked Jalapeno is. So good! Prep and Cook Time: 5...

Dry Aged Ground Beef with Artisanal Sauerkraut (Serves 1) Farmhouse Culture began making and selling sauerkraut in Farmer’s Markets a few years ago in California. Whole Foods began selling their artisanal line of sauerkrauts recently and I decided to try the Horseradish Leek. It was recently named the 64th best food to eat in San Francisco. The ingredients are ideal: Organic cabbage, organic horseradish, organic leeks, organic...