Posted: 9/2/2004 8:07:54 AM EDT
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So my mother in law sent my wife and I a crock pot (why I have no idea).... Any of you have some recipe suggestions? Simple stuff. My wife laughed when I said I'd be able to find some good recipes here. Little does she know. |
| If you like pork and saurkraut, the crock pot is the only way to go. Throw in your pork loin, your saurkraut, top the kraut with brown sugar and cook it on low for about 8 hours The roast literaly falls apart. Excellent for stews and beef roasts as well. I also use it for deer roasts. I cook them slow then pull them and add barbecue sauce it makes awsome sandwiches. Sausage and peppers, chili, the list goes on. |
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I swear, a crockpot is one of the best things going, especially if you and your wife both work. Throw it in the crock in the AM before you head out the door, you come home, the house smells great, and dinner is just about ready. A few things: Pork chops & sourkraut - thrown two cans of kraut in the bottom, put a couple of thick chops on top, sprinkle with mild paprika for flavor. Chops fall apart that evening. Skinless chicken breast w/ abt 1/2" of water, COAT w/ a good BBQ sauce. Sauce might be bit burnt around the edges that evening, but the water, sauce & juice from the chicken makes a good gravy to spoon over the meat. Good with rice. Chili - get it mixed up and cooking before you go to bed. Excellent when you get home the next evening. Roaster chicken - put the whole chicken in the crock, coat w/ butter & sprinkle with granulated garlic. Abt 1/2" of water in bottom to keep it from burning at first. That evening, it'll be a bit hard to get it out of the crock in one piece, as it'll be 'fall off the bone' tender. Skim the fat off the broth that's in the crock (or not if you're not counting calories) and it's a great gravy base. Just a few ideas.... now I have to go eat! 
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Drunk Dogs Three packages of hot dogs/frankfurters/whatever you call them where you live, cut into 1-inch pieces Ketchup Mustard (yellow works better than brown) Whiskey The proportions vary by batch, but it's something like 1.5 cups of ketchup, 0.5 cups of mustard, and 1 cup of whiskey. With the frankfurter pieces in your crock-pot (you don't think I'll say "hot dog pieces", do you?), the "sauce" should generously coat each piece, but shouldn't submerge them. Put in crock-pot and cook all day. Jack is a good whiskey if you want a smoky flavor.... |
OMFG!!! My wife makes this and I can't believe I can eat that much pork and kraut in one sitting. Absolutely one of my top 3 crock pot dishes. |
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Take a whole chicken, cut up carrots, red potatoes, celery, fresh garlic cloves (3-4), white wine, and some rosmary. Put the veggies in the bottom of the pot, put the chicken on top, pour in enough wine to cover veggies, but not chicken, then sprinkle the rosemary and salt on top of chicken. Cook on low for 12 hours. Yummy! |
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The crock pot is an awesome cooking device, especially for bacheors and wild game. Finding that venison a little too gamey, but all the recipes you see to eliminate the gaminess are a little too thought/labor intensive for you? Take a roast, 4 cups of water and 4 bags of Liptons Onion Soup, dump it all in a crockpot, cover, set on medium and go to work. Come home 8 hours later and the roast is falling apart and tastes no different than beef. ANY meat can be cooked in a crockpot and you have a HOME COOKED MEAL when you get home from work. Easy clean up. What more can you ask for, except having a blonde with big tits that can suck-start a B52 bomber do it all for you? |
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Pork chops or chicken. Put in a can of cream of mushroom soup, 1/2 cup white wine, a little red pepper, and top with a little dried mint. Make a gravy out of the juice and serve with rice. Place your potatoes in the bottom, put a beef or pork roast on top, top with carrots, onions, peppers, celery and cook on low all day. None better. Makes good red beans too. |
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Betty Crocker is now making several different Slow Cooker Helper meals. Just add meat and you're done. We've tried a couple of them (beef stew, pot roast) with deer and they are delish. One thing I like to do is take a package of deer steaks, two cans of cream of mushroom soup, about two cups of water, and a couple of onions sliced up into rings. Combine and set the crock pot on low for about 7 or 8 hours. Maybe add a little worstershire sauce at the end. |
I have a Rival; it turns itself off when cooking and turns on a warmer. It also has the removable pot which makes washing a lot easier. You can cook almost anything in a crock pot. |
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My wife has Crock Pots, she makes killer chow in them, I would have her post some recipes on here, but that would mean letting her come out of the kitchen and put shoes on, and that aint gonna happen, not on my watch. edited to add: I am just kidding about letting her out of the kitchen, she ahs to come out now and then to look after youngins'  . I have no idea what brand she uses, but whe recently bought a new one with all kinds of controls and programmable settings and crap, and she claims she adores it. |