Toss some meat, veggies and seasonings in a crock pot then let it go.

When you get home from work, the house smells yummy and all that left is to dig in and eat.

Tomorrow is crock pot dinner day. I have beef dredged in flour, salt, pepper, garlic and some other seasonings sitting on a bed of onions, carrots & potatoes bathed in cream of mushroom soup.

It's the first time I've tired this one but my crock pot recipe book hasn't failed me yet.

Crock pots rock!

Post you favorite crock pot recipe here.

meat, onion, potato, garlic.

Easy!

... *Tip*

... use a crock pot to slow cook your B-B-Q ribs on low heat for 8hrs ...

- when you come home, scoop & serve or place in oven on BROIL for 5 minutes per side to make them crisp ...

...you'll want to use a spatula becuase they will literally fall right off the bone ...

^ Jimmy, they'll be ribs and they'll probably be tasty but they won't be bar-b-que. It's only q if slow hot damp smoked. I'm partial to applewood but that's because I've got it all around me. Wasn't it in the GODFATHER that one of the characters said, "all the best cooks are men." ?

I love Crock Pot chicken...

Put a whole ccut up chickrn in with carrotts ,celery onions, garlic peppercorns,salt .bay leaf ,chicken stock and a cup of white wine.cook all day.Pull the chicken pieces out and lightly brown them under ths broiler.Thicken the stock with a little corn starch ans serve over noodles...

Mmmm Mmmmm....

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AMEN! With school back in, I keep two of them in rotation during the week! It's SO NICE to be able to toss dinner in the cooker before I head out in the morning and not give it another thought! 3 out of 5 school days run from 8am to 5:30pm - it's SO NICE to have dinner waiting when I drag home, rather than having to get dinner together in a hurry, which messes up a kitchen that'll have to be cleaned when I'm already beat, and it makes the house smell so GOOD when we come home. Without my crockpot, it'd be pizza and chinese takeout those 3 days.
Our current favorites are lasagna, beef & barley stew and chicken cacciatore. It's unreal how easy they are, especially the lasagna! Add 1/4 cup of water to some bottled marinara sauce, layer with no-boil noodles, fresh spinach leaves, ricotta & mozzarella. If you've got time, brown up some ground beef, onion and garlic to go in the sauce.

Also, they are THE BEST for real hot cocoa - guaranteed not to scorch the milk.

Tammy

ribs and saurkraut in the crock, yer talkin.

beer, brats, sourcrout, green peppers, onions.

Re: #4

- agreed on the smoked ribs ... that is my favorite way as well and yes, I do use a smoker when I get motivated ... and now, talking about it, I'm motivated ... I'll try the applewood, but I've always been partial to an equial parts mix of Alderwood, Hickory, and Maple ...

- and I've got a mister/vaporizer kit/thingy on my smoker that (every 10 - 15 minutes or so depending on the heat) sprays a mist of your choice of liquid - I use mostly bourbon, but Johnny Walker is a nice touch, and you can always water down the whiskey to a 50/50 mix with water ...

- it's a neat little system ... has a "flask" that perks when it gets hot and slowly pushes up the liquid ... then sprays & repeats ... no settings on it other than how much charcoal/wood (heat source) you are using ... sort of like a still ...

#6 now lasagna sounds good in the crock pot!!!


I might need to get one for the truck!

Sauerkraut

What temprature setting do you use for the lasagna? Low, high or auto-shift?

^ ... you gots one of them there fancy girly crockpots if you's got an auto-shift feature on it ...

- like I can't push a button all on my own and walk away from it .. come back 8hrs later and eat ...

geesh - some people are just really lazy ... LOL

LOL. Low from start till end of school, switch to high before heading out to ballet/scouts, add the last layer of mozzarella on top when we get home again and let it melt while we set the table. If you like it toasted on top, you can always pull the crock out of the cooker and pop it under a broiler.

Tammy

I wouldnt be able to drive with that cooking!

whoops - switch that. High at the beginning, low at the end.

Tammy

Damn, I need to get a new crock pot. I dropped mine while serving a bunch of jarheads at a chili cook off before I deployed. Needless to say, chili splattered all over the concrete and didn't look like chili once it hit the ground.

RE #13

It's a 20 something year old crock pot. I actually don't even know excatly what the setting does - I do know it shifts between high and low automatically (or maybe low and high) but I don't know the parameters for the shift. Discussions like this, I toss that setting out there in the hopes that someone knows and can tell me what the proper use of the damn setting is.

"If you like it toasted on top, you can always pull the crock out of the cooker and pop it under a broiler. "

Wow. Frickin' aristocratic crockpot you have there. Removeable crocks?

Damn, that must be nice. Must make cleaning so much easier too.

#18

".but I don't know the paramaters of the shift".....








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