It is wonderful to come home after a long day at work and have dinner already made, bubbling merrily in the crock pot. Last night's magical pot even included today's lunch and at least one more in the fridge.
Hi Ett! I'm in search of recipes too. Let's trade! This last one was a Marie Callender's Frozen Bag Of Crockpotness right out of the freezer aisle, so that doesn't count really. But here is a LiveJournal post with lots of recipes in the comments.
Marie Callender's frozen bag of crockpotness? ha. no, that doesn't exactly count. :-) thanks for the link. I will take a look.
one thing we tried was pretty simple: beef roast (substitute pork loin as well) mixture of: (fluid probably up halfway the height of the meat at least) low-salt cream of mushroom soup low-salt garlic mushroom soup some water some low-salt beef broth (bought in the "box" at the store) lots of red wine left over in our fridge (an absolute necessity!) spices (tarragon, sage, pepper, rosemary, etc) no extra salt at all in the pot baby carrots baby red potatoes cabbage cut up pretty small
cook on low about 9 hours, or even on high about 5 hours. mmm mmm good. We've been having it for dinners again this week.
I see you've (you all, before I discovered LJ) been down this road before about crockpot cookery. But, we can start up again... good recipes people know that work and are yummy. I tend to cook with a bit of that and a dash of that... nothing I've done to date in the crockpot is exactly measured... and it's worked out OK for me. What makes ours extra special, is we go out on our front porch and snip off some fresh rosemary, sage, and dill off our plants and throw that in... the home-spun touch. mmm mmm good. We don't have Marie Callender's out here. :-) I keep my tasting spoon nearby. I haven't left the thing unattended all day... I suppose that is completely safe to do. Anyone ever had any trouble leaving a crockpot plugged in (electrical trouble, not the cats getting into it)?
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Re: ISO crock pottery recipes
beef/pork loin roast in crock pot
thanks for the link. I will take a look.
one thing we tried was pretty simple:
beef roast (substitute pork loin as well)
mixture of: (fluid probably up halfway the height of the meat at least)
low-salt cream of mushroom soup
low-salt garlic mushroom soup
some water
some low-salt beef broth (bought in the "box" at the store)
lots of red wine left over in our fridge (an absolute necessity!)
spices (tarragon, sage, pepper, rosemary, etc)
no extra salt at all in the pot
baby carrots
baby red potatoes
cabbage cut up pretty small
cook on low about 9 hours, or even on high about 5 hours.
mmm mmm good. We've been having it for dinners again this week.
thanks for the link
Re: thanks for the link
I've never had any kind of trouble leaving the crock pot all day, but mine's pretty new and I don't have loads of experience.