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tsatske -> RE: Crock Pot Recipes (12/27/2009 8:31:47 PM)
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3 packet pot roast is about my favorite, but I turned it into four packet pot roast. You put a roast in your crockpot, all the veggies you want to use in your roast, (or however many will fit in your crockpot), and then you empty in a packet each of onion soup mix, ranch dressing mix, itialian dressing mix, and brown gravy mix, with a couple of cups of leftowver wine or water. then cook on low all day. It's awesome, the gravy is so yummy!
If you like beans, you can cook dry beans in your crockpot overnight, no parboiling, no soaking, no draining. Just, if you like adding ingrediants, don't add tomatoes or vinegar till noonish the next day. and if you like adding veggies, choose - either add them the night before and have them disappear into the beans, or add them with the tomatoes if you want to still be able to tell what they are.
That site that is a fave of mine has a lot of AWESOME dip recipes that make a party ead simple, and hot drink recipes for winter get togethers, if you like that sort of thing. And some deserts, too, compote is just a matter of mixing fruits into the crockpot with a cup of juice or wine and cooking overnight or all day on low. her cobbler recipes are equally dead simple.
I like the crockpot when I'm in the mood for southern style (read, cooked to death with fat meat and onions to flavor up the resulting near-puree) veggies - i know, unhealthy and 'sgusting, but when you are raised in the south sometimes you get a hankering for them. So you put cabbage or green beans or greens of some sort in there with a pound of bacon or a hog joul and a chopped up onion or two, and cook all day on low. (cook all day on low is kind of a crock pot theme, in case you haven't noticed).
I like a one pot meal that for all it's southern appeal is healthier than hamburger helper, because it has greenbeans instead of noodles. It has some potatoes, but more greenbeans. You put the green beans in the crockpot with a cut up onion and a sliced up link sausage (turkey sausage for lower fat, and it's good). Then top it with a pound or two of ground hamburger, top that with some baby carrots and cut up potatoes. it's really good, I call it 'green bean helper'. You can mock up a nice shepards pic, too, just put sliced potatoes on top and on bottom, and put your layers in between, whatever you normally like to use. I say whatever you like to use, because I like to use browned ground beef with a can of mixed veggies stirred in, and then a layer of saurkraut, and not everyone agrees with the saurkraut in their shepards pie thing.
For saurkraut, you can make sega dinea in the crockpot, too, and that is one of my favorite things ever. Just put in your crock pot some chicken pieces, some cut up link sausage, some cut up potatoes, some cut up apples, a spoon or two of brown sugar, a can of saurkraut and a can of tomatoes (I like to use canned stewed tomatoes).
speaking of which, you can do link sausage in your crockpot, cut up the sausage and put it in there, and cover it with either cut up onions and bell peppers, or a can of saurkraut, or both, whatever is your prefrence.
Good luck. especially with getting your son to fall in love with cooking :)
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