I’m so excited to announce that Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet (affiliate link), a cookbook full of fantastic slow cooker recipes, is being released today! Over 30 bloggers, myself included, contributed recipes to the book to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.
All of the recipes, which were lovingly edited and compiled by Jennifer of Mother Thyme and Christine of Cook the Story, look fantastic. I’m especially excited to try the butternut squash chili, the raspberry-chipotle chicken tacos (made with raspberry preserves!) and the chicken with 40 (!!) cloves of garlic. I contributed these pork meatballs in marinara sauce, which I made using last year’s canned crushed tomatoes, and we are loving them with spaghetti as an easy weeknight dinner. If you want to see the recipes though, you’ll have to buy the book!
(Psst: Want a free copy of Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet for yourself? Subscribe to receive Savvy Eats by email, and you’ll receive the book as a thank you gift!)
September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign designed to mobilize the public to take action on hunger. One in six Americans struggles with hunger, so this is an important issue that we should all be aware of. If you want to help, Feeding America has a few suggestions on their webpage. And if you want to help and check out Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet, make a donation to your local food bank. Feeding America food banks across the country are giving the ebook version to their donors as a free gift. Donate and get your free ebook here. Alternatively, if you buy a hard copy of the book on Amazon, all proceeds will go to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida!
To help support the food bank further and get the word out about our cookbook, some generous brands have jumped on board as sponsors. San Miguel Produce, Grimmway Farms and Old Oak Farms by RPE Produce are making some big contributions to help end hunger. Each of these brands are contributing food to their local food banks, and giving $5 in donations for every print copy of the book that we sell, on top of the proceeds from the book that are already going to the food bank.
Plus, these brands, along with Hamilton Beach, have put together some fun giveaways to get you excited about the book! Check them out:
1. Each participating blogger is giving away two print copies of the book. This giveaway is sponsored by San Miguel Produce, Grimmway Farms and Old Oak Farms by RPE Produce. Visit all the blogger links below to enter on their sites and increase your chances of winning!
2. Many of us (myself included) are giving away a Hamilton Beach Set & Forget Programmable 6-Quart Slow Cooker. That’s right, one Savvy Eats reader will win this awesome slow cooker! This giveaway is sponsored by Hamilton Beach – check out the other blogger links to see who else is giving away a slow cooker as well.
3. One winner will receive free carrots for a year from Grimmway Farms, free greens for a year from San Miguel Produce, and a potato prize pack (40 pounds of potatoes, 1 bamboo bowl, 1 cutting board, 1 pepper mill, 1 measuring spoon set, 1 recipe booklet AND 1 “About Potatoes” booklet) from Old Oaks Farm by RPE Produce. This one is sponsored by the co-editors of the book, Jennifer and Christine!
Enter below (sorry, U.S. residents only!), and then scroll down to check out the links to all the other bloggers who contributed to this cookbook!
To see all the amazing bloggers who participated in this cookbook (I’ve given you the name of the recipe they contributed too!) and to see where you can go to enter again and again to win all of these amazing prizes, visit Christine and Jennifer’s blogs.
Autumn Apple Chicken Sandwiches from Chocolate & Carrots
Balsamic Orange Roast Beef from a farmgirl’s dabbles
Barbacoa Tacos from My Baking Heart
Broccoli and Cheese Potato Soup from Big Bear’s Wife
Butternut Squash Vegetarian Chili from Nutmeg Nanny
Chicken Burrito Bowls from Two Healthy Kitchens
Chicken Cacciatore from Poet in the Pantry
Chicken, Potato and Barley Stew from Magnolia Days
Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic from Around My Family Table
Chinese Beef and Broccoli from Very Culinary
Creamy Buffalo Chicken from Mother Thyme
Cuban Black Bean Soup from Food n’ Focus
Cuban Seafood Stew from The Kitchen Prep
Harvest Chili from WonkyWonderful
Italian Beef Sandwiches from Yummy Healthy Easy
Lentil, Sausage and Kale Stew from Jeanette’s Healthy Living
Mango Chicken from Stetted
Macaroni and Cheese With Sugar Snap Peas from Brooklyn Farm Girl
Pork Meatballs in Marinara Sauce from Savvy Eats
Pork Tenderloin Florentine from All Day I Dream About Food
Pumpkin, Chicken and Spinach Tortellini Soup from An Edible Mosaic
Spiced Lentil Stew from Je suis alimentageuse
Sweet and Spicy Carnitas from Cravings of a Lunatic
Sweet Italian Sausage and Peppers from Sweet Remedy
Tex-Mex Scalloped Potato and Carrot Dinner from Cook the Story
Thai Coconut Curry Beef and Broccoli from Food Faith Fitness
Thai Pork with Vermicelli Salad from Jane’s Adventures in Dinner
Vegetarian Pumpkin White Chili from Kitchen Treaty
Whole Tuscan Chicken from The Little Kitchen
Psst: Want a free copy of Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet for yourself? Subscribe to receive Savvy Eats by email, and you’ll receive the book as a thank you gift!
Join us at our Twitter party celebrating the launch of the cookbook on September 18th! Join us at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT and follow along with the #slowNwholeCookbook hashtag. We will also be joining Courtney Crozier, a former contestant on The Biggest Loser, for her weekly #justcrunchem Twitter parties on September 11th, 18th and 25th from 8-9pm ET.
I love the title of that cookbook! My favorite thing about slow cookers, is that you can dump pretty much anything into it, and the end result is always yummy! But I do like to make chickpea coconut curry with green beans 🙂
Spicy Red Chicken hot out of the crock pot scooped up in a nice warm tortilla
My favorite slow cooker recipe is pulled pork for sure. Family devours this stuff when I make it!
Chicken enchilada soup
Thanks so much for being a part of this project, Julie. Your meatball recipe looks fantastic!
I LOVE making any sort of chicken dish. I never grew up with a crockpot but it is so easy now. I don’t how my mom lived without one…especially with three kids!
My favorite slow cooker recipe is beef tips
I LIKE TO MAKE BEEF TIPS AND RICE WITH PINTO BEANS IN MINE….
My favorite slow cooker recipe is chili..!
beef tips and rice is mine but i also love drpepper pulled pork its ok but not like beef tips i have to perfect the pulled pork one not there yet
One recipe I make often is slow-cooked pulled BBQ for sandwiches–any meat, sauce is 1:1 Organic Hoisin + Organic Ketchup…lots of onions and garlic, of course. I usually add zucchini or squash, too, that shreds right along with the meat, adding fiber 🙂
I love making chili
i like to make chili in a slow cooker
I have a beef stew recipe with V-8 that I got from Taste of Home. I make it all winter!
I make a great navy bean soup.
I like to make chili.
I love anything cooked in a crockpot while I am at work…lasagna comes to mind.
Swiss chicken and dressing.
any soup!
gosh, so many favorites in the slow cooker. I’ll have to say applesauce. Soo good and can’t wait to make this year’s batch!
Pulled Pork with a balsamic sauce. I put it over a hard roll
My current favorite is slow cooker Vegetarian Lasagna
I like my split pea soup in slow cooker.
Granola!
Chicken, lentil, and veggie stew
Short ribs!
My favorite crockpot recipe is beef stew. Yum!
healthy apple crisp (:
My favorite slow cooker recipe is beef pot roast with potatoes, onions, carrots and celery.
I love making a french toast casserole in the slow cooker. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I like to make chili or whole chicken
I like any kind of soup in the slow cooker.
My all-time favorite slow-cooker meal is beef stew, but i’ve recently taken a shine to a chicken breast recipe from an America’s Test Kitchen cookbook; it incorporates dried apricots and is delicious.
Spicy glazed chicken to be eaten in tortillas!
i have a special pot roast recipe !:)
thank you for the amazing giveaway!
Chicken Chili
Thai Chicken Stew
slow cooker oatmeal!
beef stroganoff is our favorite
I like to make chili in the slow cooker.
Sunday pot roast with all the vegetables
I love chili recipes, and slow cooker short ribs!
I like the pot roast, carrots, and potatos. Fall means chili will be crockin soon and of course soups. THis cookbook looks amazing!
Your dish looks fantastic! Thank you so much for doing this, and for including us in the project. It is our pleasure to support such a worthy cause.
Keep it green,
–Your friendly Southern California farmers at San Miguel Produce / Cut ‘N Clean Greens / Jade Asian Greens
Roast Beef w/ potato’s & carrots …
Chicken chili
My mother used to make something she called “Chicken Stuff”. It had to be something economical, and it was always delicious!
My favorite slow cooker recipe is pulled pork….so easy and yummy!
I love cooking chuck roast in the crockpot for shredded beef.
Steel cut oatmeal!
I haven’t had a slow cooker in a long time so don’t remember a favorite recipe. I would love to have one.
applesauce!
roast beef and veggies
My favorite slow cooker recipe is shredded beef and salsa made in the slow cooker. It makes yummy tacos and burritos, and it’s so easy to make!
I love making apple butter in the slow cooker
My fav is pulled pork.
I like making lasagna in my slow cooker
Tortilla soup! Thank you for helping to feed the hungry!
I love to make any kind of chili in my crockpot.
My favorite thing in the slow cooker is chicken with my homemade salsa and cumin – chicken tacos!
Texas Chili
I love making soups and jambalaya.
I love to make a sweet potato chili, especially in this fall weather!!
My favorite slow cooker meal is pot roast andvegtables.
A hearty beef stew, on cold days.
I have a great chicken and dumplings recipr!
Pot roast with vegetables.
Pulled chicken or chili.
We love homemade chili!
I don’t have a recipe, but I love to make pot roast in my slow cooker.