One of the best ways to warm up is with a big bowl of chili - and lucky me, I had the perfect ingredients on hand. Pantry staples for soup are so easy to keep on hand for an easy meal that is super quick to throw together. I always have (at a minimum) canned tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, vegetable stock, beans, garlic, and onions. Soups make it really easy to throw whatever you have in the fridge into a pot with some spices and call it a day.
Crock Pot Vegetarian Chili
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 can dark red kidney beans
1 can light red kidney beans
1 "can" water (fill up the tomato sauce can once you've dumped it in the crockpot)
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
1 green pepper
1 container of mushrooms
1 C frozen corn kernels
2 T chili powder
2 t cumin
2 t oregano
1 t crushed red pepper flakes
Directions:
1. Small dice the onions and peppers + mince garlic cloves, place in crockpot.
5. Turn crockpot on high for 3-4 hours or low for 6-8 hours. I did mine on high, but if you want to go away for the day and come back, low will work too!
So naturally I'm going to try(pretend) to diet for the week. (let's not talk about the funnel cake I ate last night...) Immediately followed by excessive candy eating and Halloween punch drinking. There will be pictures, don't worry.
people of the world...SPICE UP YOUR LIFE!