Cooking Thursday: Slow Cooker Curry Chicken and Italian Meatball Soup (comfort food time)

 

Hello Dear Friends! 

It's a nice chilly low 60's today and it gets me so in the mood to think comfort food thoughts. I'm picturing moments I loved last Fall:

We would take Ruby for a beautiful long walk. The air crisp and cold enough to need a sweatshirt. The trees really putting on a show with their glorious colors. And I'd have something in the slow cooker back home that had been simmering all day long. And we'd come in from the cold and smell the wonderful aroma of whatever was cooking and know that something comforting was going to warm us and feed our souls. 

Here are a couple of recipes that would be warming and comforting to make this Fall. 🍁🧡💛

The first is this slow cooker curry chicken recipe we had several weeks ago. I found the recipe on instagram and I don't remember exactly where? It was so flavorful and comforting and we both loved it! It reminded me so much of a takeout curry I used to get from a favorite Asian restaurant that isn't around anymore. It will definitely be a go-to on repeat over the season ahead!

slow cook the chicken and yummy veggies in a chicken broth that includes peanut butter, soy sauce, coconut milk, onion, garlic etc.  

take out the chicken towards the end and shred it...

then add in some sliced red pepper and cook a little longer and serve over rice of your choice (we had it over cauliflower rice) and we topped ours with some chopped peanuts for extra crunch

Here's the recipe for Curry Chicken:

The next recipe is one I made just last weekend up at the lake. It was a chilly 60's kind of weekend and this soup was perfect for it. I had taken a pic from this cookbook I had gotten in one of my Taste of Home boxes. 

Here it is cooking away in the slow cooker at the lake - I didn't take an after pic but the recipe shows part of a pic of the finished bowl. We topped ours with some parmesan cheese to serve. And we ate it with crusty french rolls right out of the oven with the pats of butter melting inside. The were perfect dippers for this tasty soup. Another one I will definitely make again! 

Here's the recipe for Italian Meatball Soup:

On a side note: please pray for MN. The horrendous shooting yesterday continues to sit on my heart. This one hits so close to home because it's only a few hours from where we live. And my son lives right next door in St. Paul. Also, the fact that I'm Catholic too. 

My heart breaks for those poor families and that this continues to happen and nothing changes!! What lawmakers are doing now isn't enough as it continues to happen with far too much regularity. I pray for real change to happen in some form - to at least try something different that may help with this constant terrible problem in our country. 😢🙏🏻