it's Potluck Season!!

Published: Fri, 06/13/25

Updated: Fri, 06/13/25

Happy Friday, Slow Cookerers!!

We are in summer mode around here with lots of backyard barbecues and graduation parties scheduled.

This is *prime* crockpot season.

Don't worry about the weather warming up --- you're still going to need side dishes, desserts, and using your slow cooker during the warm months keeps your kitchen nice and cool.

Remember, all you need is an outlet and you can cook! Many of my readers report cooking on a screened in porch or patio.

Here are the Top Ten Slow Cooker Potluck Recipes:

Also, there are a lot of new people on the email list (welcome!!) and I want to make sure you are up to speed with old school vs. new school (modern) slow cooking.

Modern Slow Cooking:

and here is a write-up on why I am not a huge fan of the pressure cooker.

also, I want to direct you to my 30 Days to a New You motivational journal and workbook as you plan out your summer time.

Here is an excerpt from the Introduction:

In 2008 I made a New Year’s Resolution to use my crockpot slow cooker every day for a year and write about it online.

This simple idea, this knee-jerk “I’m just going to go for it!” declaration launched my AYearofSlowCooking.com website, 4 cookbooks, a housekeeping journal, multiple ebooks, and a stay at home career that I love.

I didn’t plan ahead. I didn’t seek out counsel as to whether or not my idea would work or if anything “big” would come from it. I simply set an intention, a resolution, and went for it.

A year is a long time.

Every few days a reader writes to me and asks if he or she should make a similar declaration or resolution —

And my response is always the same: go for it!

But a year is a long time.

But a month?

A month is doable. You can see a month on one calendar page and can cross the days off as you complete them.

This is how this workbook came to be.

There are sections for:
Gratitude
Steps
Water
Weight
Cycle
Money in/Money Out

This is life-changing stuff (the gurus on the Internet call this "habit stacking").

Change can be scary, sometimes. You may not want to embark on anything new because each and every time you’ve tried before you’ve failed.

So what’s the point?

I know. I get it. But again, I PROMISE you that you can do this, and that you will be happier with yourself if you follow through.

And even though I don’t know you, I love you. Just the way you are.

Do not do this for me.
Do not do this for anyone but yourself.
You deserve it.
I am here to help.
I am on your side.

This is for sale on Amazon, in a bound book --

And if you've got kids home and are trying to keep the busy/occupied -- here is an article I wrote about what I do during the summertime months:
https://stephanieodea.com/2015/07/im-a-closet-homeschooler/

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Stephanie O'Dea

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