Crock Pot Meals

[Nyboy]

My mother used her crock pot often, now I have it. What are your favorite crock pot recipes ? Give times and settings.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Oh, chili, pinto beans, pot roast, to name a few. You can do online searches for "crock pot recipes". I have used one for over 30 years, and always look for new recipes.

 

[baymule]

Roast beef.

1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 packet of dry onion soup
combine both with 1/2 can of water in crock pot
place roast in crock pot, turn to coat with soup mixture
cook on low while gone to work

You might want to cook this the first time while you are home all day to keep an eye on it. Your crock pot might be different from mine.

Variation
peel and cut up 2-3 potatoes
peel and cut in 2"-3" pieces, 3-4 carrots
quarter and onion or two

Put the veggies on top of the roast and let cook on low all day.

 

[thistlebloom]

A crock pot is great for shredded beef to use in tacos and enchiladas and BBQ beef sandwiches. I get a cheap piece of beef, put it in the crockpot with a few cups of broth and let it cook on low until the beef shreds, usually by the time I get home in the afternoon. Keep the juices for stews and use the meat for a dinner or two.

 

[Nyboy]

@baymule your roast beef exactly what i am looking for, open 2 cans add water dinner !!!!!!!!!!

 

[digitS']

I simply must learn to use a crock pot!

Many years ago, we bought a crock pot. Before using it more than a couple of times, we lost the lid . Had no idea what happened to it!

Have had a slow cooker that you set on its own hotplate. Use that the way @thistlebloom does. It's beginning to look tired.

Last year, DW wanted to buy one of those fancy combos, pressure cooker/slow cooker. I encouraged her to buy it. We don't can and have never used a pressure cooker but it's probably not very suitable for canning. Have used it once for stew ..!

There has to be a good reason why we have this thing ..

Steve

 

[majorcatfish]

Mississippi mud roast just follow the directions...

http://www.food.com/recipe/mississippi-roast-crockpot-491126

serve with rice if there is any left over makes great sandwiches <roast, cheese, on a roll heat in oven. almost like a french dip sandwich...

 

[Nyboy]

major love it so simple !! I almost want to leave work and head to supermarket. What is au jus mix ? Steve not sure why, but I think missing lid was so funny!!

 

[so lucky]

Steve, you can put a frozen roast or chicken in a pressure cooker, and have tender cooked meat in about half an hour of pressurized cooking. When I do this, I let it depressure, (made that word up) add vegetables, and cook the veggies without pressure, otherwise they will turn to mush.

 

[journey11]

This is our all-time favorite crockpot recipe -- Slow Cooker Garlic and Brown Sugar Chicken. I serve it over rice. I don't put any cayenne pepper in when making it since the kids will not eat anything spicy, but DH and I like a little sriracha on ours.

Crockpot Lasagna is ridiculously easy and always hits the spot too. Gotta be careful not to over-cook (come home on time!) so the edges won't burn.

I also like to use my crockpot to cook up tougher cuts of beef like eye-of-round steaks, flank steaks, etc. to make beef tacos, fahitas and quesadillas later. To be quick and easy, I just put a little beef stock in there and a packet of fajita seasoning, but you could really do it up with all the good stuff, like in this recipe here. I cook mine on low for 6-8 hours.

I really need to use my crockpot more often. It would save me so much time in the long run, as preparing dinner is the biggest time sucker of my day. I need to take time to sit down and work on the plan-ahead aspect of this though! I have been so busy and disorganized here lately, but it only makes it worse not to work out some meal plans ahead of time.