The Slow-Cooker Challenge

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KELSEY BANFIELD
Kelsey Banfield believes that being a parent and foodie don't have to be mutually exclusive, and chronicles her culinary journey--including her recipes--on The Naptime Chef. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband and daughter.

JENNIFER CLAIR
Jennifer Clair is always hungry. She is also a chef-instructor, mother of two, and the founder of Home Cooking New York, which offers in-home and public cooking classes for both kids and adults in NYC and the Hudson Valley. A few years ago, she moved upstate from Brooklyn to Beacon in search of a backyard, garden and a bigger kitchen. She shares her tips and recipes for convincing her children to spend as much time as possible with her in that kitchen.

TRACY GARY
Tracy Gary is a homemade and real food enthusiast and the mother of two foodie tots. She is the founder of Intuition Nutrition, a whole food and healthy lifestyle education program, in which Tracy empowers families to de-junk their pantries and upgrade the quality of their food and health without sacrificing the yummy factor. She shares her ideas on how to keep it real in the kitchen here at Yummy Delicious.

JENNA HELWIG
Jenna Helwig, founder of Rosaberry, is a culinary instructor, personal chef, freelance writer, and professional recipe developer. She is the mother of a six-year-old daughter who loves mussels, olives and mangos.

LIZA HUBER
Liza Huber is an author, wife, mother of three and an Ambassador Mom for the March of Dimes. She is the Founder of Sage Spoonfuls, a brand new book and product line that gives moms all the tools they need to make homemade baby food with ease. She believes in feeding babies fresh, whole foods right from the start to not only give them the healthiest start to life, but to also prevent picky eating as they grow into toddlers. She shares her recipes and ideas for meals that the entire family, babies and toddlers included, can enjoy together here at Yummy Delicious.

AMY SPIRO
Amy Spiro is a writer, baker and blogger based in New York. She loves hearty soups and fresh grain salads, but her true love is dessert--pies, cakes, cookies, candy and more. Check out her recipes, stories and tales of kitchen disaster at Baking and Mistaking.

CARLA SULLIVAN
After careers in broadcast journalism and public relations, mom-of-two and longtime foodie Carla Sullivan combined her love of dining out in the city with her love for her kids and founded MiniMunchers.com-the first and only website where parents can search for and view the children's menus of restaurants across the city. She lives in downtown Manhattan with her family.

JILL VALENTE
Jill Valente, wife, writer and mother to a fabulous two-year-old daughter, believes in eating organic, unprocessed foods-but she also believes in surviving the toddler years. Jill is currently experimenting in the kitchen to reconcile her passion for creative, healthful cooking with her daughter's insistence on surviving on cheddar bunnies, yogurt drinks and pizza. She invites readers to share her family's culinary journey with her here at Yummy Delicious.

JESSI WALTER
Jessi Walter, a former VP on Wall Street, turned in her calculator for a spatula when she founded Taste Buds (formerly known as Cupcake Kids!) in 2007. Based in Manhattan's only kitchen studio designed just for budding chefs, Jessi teaches kids from all over the metropolitan area how to mix, measure and stir their way to a culinary masterpiece during classes, parties and special events.

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Win A New Slow-Cooker In The Slow-Cooker Challenge

Hi New York! I am here to announce the Slow-Cooker Challenge. Do you like to use your slow-cooker to make tasty meals in a convenient fashion? Then this challenge is for you. All week, Big Girls, Small Kitchen, Small Kitchen College and The Naptime Chef are hosting a slow-cooker challenge featuring meals from bloggers and food news website and we are giving away TWO awesome slow-cookers as well as two prize packs of slow-cooking goodies from OXO Good Grips. To enter, to win please visit The Naptime Chef, Big Girl, Small Kitchen and Small Kitchen College to read entry details.

If you are on Twitter please join us on Wednesday, January 18th from 12pm - 1pm, when we'll be hosting a live twitter chat along with Food52, The Daily Meal, Punchfork, Foodily, OXO Good Grips and more. We'll be using hash tag #slowcooker. Tune in to talk all things slow cookin'! During the Twitter event and throughout the day we'll be offering a bonus giveaway of amazing OXO Good Grip tools that are essential for slow-cooking valued at over $150!

On Thursday, January 19th we'll be slow-cookin' all day on Facebook you can enter to win a second prize-pack of OXO Good Grips kitchen tools by uploading photographs of your slow-cooked meals to The Naptime Chef fanpage, Small Kitchen College fanpage or Big Girls, Small Kitchen fanpage.

To get you started with your own slow-cookin' this week here are a great recipe for low-fat slow-cooker lemon thyme chicken. This is the perfect dish for a whole family and will even help you hold on to your New Year's resolutions just a bit longer. Come join the fun and get slow-cookin'!

Low-Fat Lemon Thyme Slow-Cooker Challenge

DIRECTIONS

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, (on the larger, denser side)
1/4 cup olive oil
Zest and juice of 2 large lemons
4 large garlic cloves, minced
Kosher salt
Freshly cracked pepper
8 sprigs fresh thyme

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Mix the olive oil, lemon zest and juice and minced garlic together in a small mixing bowl and pour it into the bottom of a large slow-cooker, about 5 or 6 quart.

2. Pat the chicken breasts dry and place them in the slow-cooker turn them once through the olive oil mixture. Then sprinkle both sides of chicken with large pinches of kosher salt and cracked pepper. Nestle the salted and pepper breasts snuggly into the bottom of the slow cooker. Tuck the sprigs of thyme between and around the chicken breasts.

3. Cut one of the zested lemons into eighths and nestle them top and around the breasts with the thyme.

4. Place the lid on top of the slow-cooker and cook on high heat for 3 hours. Check the inside of one of the breasts to make sure they are cooked through. The cooking time might vary a bit based on the slow-cooker and density of the chicken breasts. If they need to cook longer do it in 15-minute increments.

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