I am calling this recipe Caponata, but it is not exactly the traditional Sicilian sauce. In my crack pot I cooked 1 sliced onion, 1 chopped eggplant, 1 clove garlic, a lot of tomatoes-maybe 6 and a handful of basil. I cooked this for about 20 hours then added a dash of salt and tossed it with spiral pasta. Wow. This was some tasty sauce!

black bean stew: yum. this was a huge hit tonight. I put in my crock pot: one sliced onion, a bag of baby carrots, 3 kale leaves, 2 sliced beets, 1.5 cups black lentils, a drizzle of olive oil, a dash of sea salt and a drizzle of say sauce. This all cooked for about 4 and a half hours and we ate it up. Even Amata enjoyed this. She really liked the carrots and beets.