Slow Cooking

[mariann]

I've been thinking about a crockpot for several years. I had one from my mother, but it was way too big for my family or for my little kitchen. Today I found a 4-quart model at Target for $17 so I decided to give it a try.

I've got some recipes that came with the model, plus I found this recipe site. I'm not sure if I have any cookbooks with

Comments

[lynda]

Any big hunk of meat with a little chicken, beef or vegatable stock and chunked vegetables.

Beans

Stews and soups.

We don't really use many recipes. We do beef stew most often in the crock pot.. just some stew beef salt/peppered, 2-3 potatoes cubed, an onion diced, a couple cloves of garlic, some seasonings and a bay leaf, beef stock and a bag of frozen mixed vegetables during the last hour.

[adrith]

I love perusing "A Year of Slow Cooking": http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

My absolute favorite recipe from that site is the Indonesian chicken recipe - peanut chicken. I'd make this dish at least once a week if I thought my arteries could handle it. :D

[phaeba]

I LOVE my crockpot - I use it about 3-4 times a week, and even more in the summer.

Though I have a couple of crockpot cookbooks they tend to kind of all repeat the same stuff. I do check Allrecipes (http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Main-Dish/Slow-Cooker/Main.aspx) often to get more ideas, which is where I found our favorite pot roast recipe (substitute two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup with Roasted Garlic in place of the plain CoM, and toss in some baby carrots): http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Awesome-Slow-Cooker-Pot-Roast/Detail.aspx

Once you get the "hang" of cooking times and meat done-ness, etc, it becomes easy to adapt regular recipes to the crockpot, too :D

Crock Pot

[danakate]

I'm a fan of crock pot lasagna. All Recipes has some recipes to try...although for whatever reason a lot of them use cottage cheese and not ricotta. :o

[andreaq]

I have some on my other blog:

http://thoughtsfrommsq.blogspot.com/2007/09/quirky-chili.html (you can substitute ground meat for the soy "ground" that I use)

http://thoughtsfrommsq.blogspot.com/2008/06/crockpot-pork-roast.html

Neither of those recipes take all day...only about 5 hours.