Five Crock Pot Recipes to Try When It’s Too Hot To Heat Up the Kitchen
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We love using our Slow Cookers in the Summer to help keep things cool inside. Here are five crock pot recipes to try when it’s too hot to heat up the kitchen!
Cris here.
We are back this week continuing our Five to Try series.
This week’s “theme” is what to make when you don’t want to heat up the kitchen.
These last few days have been a bit of a heat wave and the LAST thing I want to do is fire up the kitchen only to try to cool it down again.
Many of our readers tell me their slow cookers are a lifesaver in the summer heat.
So I thought you might like five recipes to try that have no extra heating steps.
Beat the heat and let your crock pot do the cooking next week!
Five Crock Pot Recipes to Try Next Week to Beat the Heat





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