Crock Pot Recipes!
 

For lazy cooks like me.

Now that I'm on my own, I'm really just starting to cook for the first time. We were sure to register for a crock pot because I felt it seemed pretty fool proof, even for people like me :)

I'm using it for the first time tonight. We've got about 2 hours left but it SMELLS SO GOOD, I'm very excited. Here's what I'm making:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/...ili-56214.aspx

Anyone else have favorite Crock Pot/slow cooker recipes? I think this is going to become an every Saturday or Sunday kind of thing :D

I love my Crock Pots. I use mine very frequently.

One of my favorite recipes is a spiced cider. It makes the house smell wonderful! The recipe:

Pour into Crock Pot
4 cups apple juice
2 cups orange juice

Then, in cheesecloth (or a coffee filter if you don't have cheesecloth available), assemble preferred spices. I use 3-4 cinnamon sticks, about 1.5 Tbsps cloves, and 1 whole nutmeg. Tie up the cheesecloth/coffee filter, toss into the pot, and set the pot on high. Remove spice bundle before serving.

I usually sprinkle ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg on each cupful.

Pot Roast and pulled pork bbq are also among my Crock Pot favorites. Good stuff!

I use a lot of recipes from http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

Salsa Chicken and Black Bean Soup and Asian Peanut Butter Pork are two of my favorites from there.

Pinterest has lots of awesome slow cooker recipes!

This is my favorite - I go back to it over and over again:

http://www.crock-pot.com/Recipe.aspx?rid=269

Velvet Chicken with Wine/Mushroom Sauce

You may find, in time, that it is really great to use it during the work week because you can come home and dinner is ready! I like to cook corned beef in the crock pot. I toss it in there before work with some water and the spices, cook it on low all day, and it's done when I get home. It was especially convenient when the kids had activities at different times and we could all eat whenever we got home.

Here are links to a few of the pinterest recipes that I have tried and liked:

Brown Sugar and Balsamic Glazed Pork Loin

Shredded Beef Tacos

Chicken and Corn Chili

I <3 my crockpot!
Pinterest and the 365 crock pot site that has already been mentioned! Even tonight I just did chicken tenders with some butter and seasonings in the crockpot (just over an hour on high) so I can have tasty chicken with my salads this week.

I should mention, I'm married seven years, we're on crock pot #2 - that's how much use it gets.

Here's a great recipe from Real Simple:

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recip...578/index.html

Assuming you like Indian. Which I do.

We registered for one regular crock pot and one triple crock pot. We ended up with NINE of the first, but only FOUR of the triple. I'm more of a warm weather crock pot user, so they'll see their share of chili, soups, pulled pork or beef, and pot roasts. I think I have a cookbook for them, but I usually cook by sight.

Let me add that I like to make whatever one day, refrigerate overnight, skim off the grease, then warm it up again, so I don't add anything that could go goopy until Day Two.

Don't forget that you can get crock pot liners too... they make it even easier, because there is no clean up!!!

I <3 my crockpot. My parents gave it to me as a Christmas gift a few years ago, along with a crockpot-specific cookbook. It's wonderful in winter. I'll dice up some beef or chicken, give it a quick sear, and throw it in the slow cooker with some broth or water and some herbs and/or spices and some veggies, and let it sit all day on low. By evening the house smells like heaven. A bit of rice, maybe a fresh salad if you haven't already included veggies in the crockpot, and voila - dinner. I have recipes, but I usually just make something up. It's all in the spices.

I love this site! Try the skinny spaghetti - it's awesome! There are some really good recipies in the non-slow cooker section, too.

http://skinnyms.com/category/recipes/slow-cooker/

I loved using a crockpot until mine died and I got a new one. Even with newer recipes that take higher temps into account it scorches food. I returned it and got a different unit and have the same problem.

As usual, I love anything from Skinny Taste; here are her crock pot recipes
Crock pot 365 is great!