we all know cooking a good meal takes
time you know especially with all the
hustle and bustle getting kids and
homework and everything like that and
sometimes you just don't have enough
time to do it that's why we brought in
an expert to share a few recipe ideas
that the whole family is going to who
love a local food blogger Vianney
Rodriguez is here and of course she's
got that great cookbook out the tex-mex
slow cooker cookbook and stick around
because you're gonna find out how you
can win that cookbook but first what are
we making today we're starting with
breakfast so we're gonna make granola
but we're gonna make the granola in the
slow cooker okay you can make a huge
batch on Sunday while you're getting the
kids ready doing laundry and you'll have
it for the rest of the week and it keep
does it keep in the fridge or in the
pantry you can keep in the pantry oh yes
so I had one of these little covers
uh-huh put everything in here and then I
can once it's done just allow it to dry
seal it and put in my pantry there's no
cleanup super easy to make we're gonna
add your oatmeal okay okay everything's
dry so he's super easy we're gonna add
poppy fuss okay this is a Mexican I be
fast we're gonna have pecans there
you're gonna add this grated chocolate
which is this I will need the chocolate
which is super good and it's got danila
it's got nutmeg nutmeg and everything in
there yep
a bat so you see we're just there we go
dropping everything in so all the nuts
and of getting lots of good oils lots of
fibers in here and the protein so it's
gonna hold kids over until lunchtime
yeah and then you can pack it for them
and my daughter likes to take a little
thing of yogurt with granola mmm pack
that after-school snack over milk we're
gonna add our oil
okay what's right here and then we're
gonna add just a touch of Ag of it for
sweetness because we already have time
what you're just gonna add just a smidge
no all of that oh yeah and then we're
going to just stir it you want
everything coated okay and that's it
okay and how long you slow cook it you
slow cook it for 4 to 6 hours put the
lid on it every hour hour and a half
just come in here and since you have
your little bag
turn it you're just gonna lift the bag
kind of keep a little around yeah
make sure everything's coated put the
cover back on and this is product right
here remember we made the Texas trash
stayed crispy and the nuts are still and
you did nothing
I mean that you did not have to start
the oven I didn't have to click anything
writers tossed everything in there it's
all about a simplicity and prepping for
the week and this of course keeps all
week and are there any other you know
recipes that would be good for you know
making once and last night gosh we have
a chicken brother that's coming up I
love to make we have a moly sauce which
is great we have chilaquiles anything
super-easy in the book I wanted to make
sure everybody was prepped and ready for
the week and this one too nice and
simple thankful simple freshing
especially in this traditional BLT and
putting it in a wrap so at the story you
have your regular wraps for Thea's you
have whole-wheat you've got so many
options now spinach what we're gonna do
is we're gonna take some mayonnaise
we're gonna spread it on Sophia
all righty and then this you can make
these ahead the night before put them in
foil or saran wrap stash them in the
fridge and then when their kids are
ready they can grab theirs and go
they're set to go because there's beach
that morning exactly and then what
lettuce lettuce we're gonna put lettuce
all righty
any kind of lettuce lettuce you have
anything any leftovers you have shredded
chicken shredded turkey anything you
have in the fridge of course we play
with that we have tomato we're gonna put
some bacon in it and then if you don't
if you want to have a meatless option we
can spread this with hummus put lettuce
we can put cucumbers we can put all of
you anything your child likes cuz you
want them to have a great lunch yeah
it's like you said it is so simple to do
wrap that up no cooking
cuz I even bought the fully cooked bacon
at the store so we're gonna wrap it
hmm we're gonna put the little
toothpicks in to secure it and you can
put it in the fridge like this wrapped
or we can slice it fantastic ideas and
stick around because Yanni is gonna be
sharing how you could win a free
cookbook and a chicken Verde recipe
three different ways that's coming
all right