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Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Dried Cherries

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Sweet, salty, tangy and a little spicy, this slow cooker chicken thighs recipe excites every tastebud. Skinless, bone-in chicken thighs are slow cooked with dried cherries, leeks, sweet wine, orange juice and aromatic spices, until they are wonderfully tender and flavorful. 

slow cooker chicken thighs and couscous in a white bowl on a black ad white checked dishcloth

This easiest of crockpot recipes requires no sautéing or fuss. Just throw everything in the pot and let the magic happen. This can be made in an electric slow cooker or on the stovetop in a Dutch oven. Instructions are included for both.

Weeknight Easy – Special Occasion Worthy

Although this slow cooker chicken thighs recipe is easy, family friendly and perfect for a weeknight dinner, I also love making it for guests. The chicken is melt-in-your-mouth tender and there’s such a great balance of exciting, contrasting flavors at play here, with salty olives, sweet tangy cherries, hot red pepper flakes and rich fruity wine, just to name a few. Everyone who tries this dish is wowed, and I always get requests for the recipe.

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30 Minute Healthy Turkey Vegetable Soup

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This healthy turkey vegetable soup is flavorful and comforting, made in one pot, and ready in 30 minutes. It starts with ground turkey sautéed with shallots and garlic and then simmered in spiced tomato broth with a whole chopped cauliflower and a big bunch of kale. A great recipe for the weeknight dinner rotation. Sometimes…

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7 crostini topped with creamy goat cheese, caramelized onions and figs, sprigs of rosemary around the plate

Amazing Fig and Goat Cheese Appetizer

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Serve this fig and goat cheese appetizer at your holiday party and everyone will gather around. The intensely flavorful combo of tangy goat cheese, caramelized onions and sherry-steeped figs is served warm, spread onto baguette slices or crackers. It’s an easy recipe that can be completely assembled a day in advance. Party food at its…

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Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe

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This Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe comes from award-winning chef Dorie Greenspan. Traditional for Christmas in Austria and Germany, these festive cookies are nutty, buttery, vanilla-scented, sugar-dusted, sweet and salty, melt-in-your-mouth perfection!   Almond crescent cookies, also known as Vanillekipferl (vanilla crescents), are vanilla-almond flavored with a rich buttery consistency, similar to shortbread. The sugar-dusting looks like…

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This Minestrone soup is a hearty one pot dinner, with lots of fresh vegetables, tomatoes, white beans, red lentils and beef short ribs. The beef is fall-apart tender and the lentils melt into the delicious broth and give it a rich creamy texture. {gluten-free}

Minestrone Soup with Beef

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This hearty minestrone soup verges on a stew, with fall-apart tender beef, white beans, lentils and lots of fresh veggies. Delicate red lentils melt into the broth giving this soup a rich creamy texture. It’s a wonderful meal onto itself, all cooked in one pot. Minestrone, the quintessential Italian vegetable soup, can vary from season…

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a white bowl filled with Italian wedding soup, broth, 3 turkey meatballs and wilted kale, with a pile of spoons and a small bowl of parmesan in the background

Italian Wedding Soup with Turkey Meatballs (gluten-free, low-carb)

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Italian Wedding Soup is simple, satisfying and beloved across the globe. This lighter, healthier version with turkey meatballs has plenty of garlic and parmesan cheese for flavor, with veggies taking the place of breadcrumbs and pasta. A super delicious, nutritious, gluten free, keto-friendly soup that you can call dinner. Is Italian wedding soup served at…

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The 16 Best Thanksgiving Recipes from Panning The Globe

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Thanksgiving is a great time to cook traditional favorites and also an opportunity to delight the family with something exciting and new. Each of these 16 Thanksgiving Recipes has a little something special that will brighten up your feast and make everyone at the table feel extra thankful.  Many people stick to the exact same…

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6 roasted squash halves stuffed with a rainbow of roasted fall vegetables.

Roasted Squash Stuffed with Roasted Vegetables

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Roasted Squash Stuffed with Roasted Vegetables! This is one of my all time favorite holiday recipes – a rainbow of delicious healthy veggies piled into roasted squash halves. A beautiful, awe-inspiring vegetable side dish that’s perfect for Thanksgiving or any festive meal. And all of the chopping, roasting and stuffing can be done ahead of…

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Blue Cheese and Sage Roasted Butternut Squash Appetizer | PanningTheGlobe.com

Blue Cheese and Sage Roasted Butternut Squash Appetizer

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Roasted butternut squash baked with goat or blue cheese makes a fabulous festive appetizer that’s easy to throw together! There are so many things I love about this dish: the great colors, the wonderful shapes, fresh seasonal ingredients, the combo of healthy and decadent, the rustic excitement of the butternut squash being cooked yet still…

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Sri Lankan vegetable curry with toasted cashews

Sri Lankan Vegetable Curry

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This vibrant Vegetable Curry Recipe from the tropical island country of Sri Lanka enchants with layers of exciting flavor and a good amount of heat. Cauliflower, sweet potatoes and green beans simmered in fragrant spicy coconut curry sauce with toasted cashews and cilantro. This makes a delicious, satisfying vegan meal. Curry and rice is the…

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Chicken Plov Recipe

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Chicken Plov is a scrumptious chicken and rice casserole recipe from Uzbekistan, with lots of carrots, onions, herbs and delicious spices.  Many countries have their own take on chicken and rice casserole and I love them all. Spanish Aroz con pollo, Persian Tachin Joojeh, West African Jollof Rice with Chicken, and Indian Chicken Biryani, to name a…

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Funeral Potatoes with Chorizo and Smoked Paprika

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This funeral potatoes recipe is made from scratch with fresh russet potatoes, Chorizo sausages, smoked paprika and a few other goodies that bring vibrant Spanish flavors to this irresistible cheesy shredded potato casserole. It’s only fair to forewarn you that when you taste this, you will not be able to resist coming back for seconds…

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Quick Cuban Black Beans

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Here’s a quick easy Cuban Black Beans recipe using canned black beans, aromatic vegetables and smokey bacon. For when you want delicious black beans fast! Cuban Black Beans (Frijoles negros) are central to Cuban cuisine, served as a side dish with almost every meal and as a main course, scooped onto steaming rice with toppings…

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