Slow Cookin'
 

I bought myself a slow cooker (+ pressure cooker) for Christmas, and I've been having a fun time inventing yummy meals. The only downside is that the house smells so good while the food is cooking that I nearly go nuts.

Does anyone have any favorite slow cooker recipes they'd recommend?

I have two large slow cookers and just got a "tri-pack" of connectable small ones. I haven't used the little ones yet but will probably do so soon. With one vegetarian in the house, the flexibility to slow cook meat and veggie dishes will help a lot.

I enjoy any kind of stew/casserole dish but the rest of the family doesn't, so we would typically only do some sort of roast or whole chicken. Surprisingly enough, I've yet to make a slow cooked corned beef. I'll have to remember to do that. One of my fave's is kielbasa & sauerkraut. While it's delicious...I have the exact opposite issue of the scent. The whole house smells like cabbage for a week. lol

Too bad you both don't live closer and offer to host supper. :D

Oh well ... :(

I was thinking that myself …… some people eh? Self self self …..




































………. ;) :roflmao: :cheers:

DM

Just made this last week and it's one of his favorites :)

Slow-Cooker Recipe: Classic Beef Stew


• 4 pounds bottom round, well trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup olive oil (plus more if needed)
• 2 large onions, diced (2 cups)
• 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
• 1 cup dry red wine
• 1 pound potatoes, cut into 2-inch pieces (about 4 cups)
• 1/2 pound baby carrots (about 2 cups)
• 2 cups beef broth
• 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 cup frozen peas, thawed

Preparation
Coat the beef in the flour. Heat a few tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown the meat, a few pieces at a time, adding more oil as necessary. Transfer to a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker. Add the onions to the skillet and cook over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and coat the onions; transfer to the cooker. Pour the wine into the skillet and scrape up any browned bits; add to the cooker. Stir in the potatoes, carrots, broth, salt, thyme, and bay leaf. Cover and cook on low heat for 7 1/2 hours, or on high for 4 hours. Add the peas and heat through.

My family loves....

SlowCooker BBQ Chicken Drumsticks:

lg. tray of chicken drumsticks (usually 12-14 pieces)
Your fav BBQ sauce (I use Sweet Baby Rays)

Put drumsticks on foil lined cookie sheet.
Bake for 45 min. @ 350 just to get color on the skin and partly cook.
Place drumsticks in slow cooker, Pouring BBQ sauce over each layer,
Making sure to cover all of them, but not so much they float.

Cook on low for 4 hours.

Very yummy ! Be sure to have plenty of napkins.
Good to take it in slow cooker to picnics, potlucks, parties. where ever.

My mom makes home made spaghetti sauce in her crock pot, but if you look online there are all kinds of recipes for slow cookers. I've been saving recipes for a while now. I even have one for cheese cake done in a slow cooker.

PINTEREST is a veritable wealth of slow cooker recipes! I've made a couple things off there and they've turned out well. One was Honey Sesame Chicken

SLOW COOKER HONEY SESAME CHICKEN
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
4 hours
Total Time
4 hours, 10 minutes

Yield
6 servings

Simply throw everything in the crockpot and you're set for a family-friendly meal - it doesn't get easier than that!

INGREDIENTS
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 green onion, thinly sliced for garnish
Sesame seeds, for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS
In a large bowl, combine onion, garlic, honey, soy sauce, ketchup, vegetable oil and red pepper.
Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper, to taste. Place chicken thighs into a slow cooker. Add honey mixture and gently toss to combine. Cover and cook on low heat for 3 hours and 30 minutes.
Remove chicken thighs from the slow cooker and shred the chicken before returning to the pot with the juices. Cover and keep warm for an additional 30 minutes.
Serve immediately, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.

I used to do this when I lived down south, in the cooler part of Oz.

I'd cut up and freeze some lean meat and non-potato vegetables, making sure that the frozen shape would fit the crock-pot.

Potatoes I'd peel the night before and leave in a bowl of water.

Before leaving for work I'd put the frozen stuff and the potato in the pot with salt, pepper and a handful of commercial dried mixed herbs. A half-dozen icecubes give water for cooking. As the pot only had an on and off switch, I could use a timer to set the thing off after a couple of hours. I got pretty got a working out how long was needed for quantities.

A small slurp of Worcestershire Sauce at the end and all was wonderful.

Here was my recipe for yesterday:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-C...uco/Detail.aspx

I also added 2 serrano peppers (to give it some flavor) and a bunch of Hungarian hot paprika. Instead of osso bucco, I used beef rump roast (less expensive).

Not pressure cooker, but crock pot, and it still counts as slow cooking:
split pea soup. Made with ham fat, if you can get it.

If pressure cooking is counted as slow cooking, something's wrong.

My $89 machine from Amazon does both. It also has a Congee button, but I have yet to try it.

Fancy, fancy.

One of M's girlfriends had a kind of thermos jug where you place your corned beef and maybe some small onions, fill to the line with boiling water, seal the lid and come back in a few hours for perfect corned beef.

Don't ask me where, when or how, it just some women's magic stuff.

I always make soups in my crockpot...no muss no fuss....pot roasts are simple too, as is spaghetti sauce.
So many things can be cooked in a crockpot, the possibilites are really endless

I have a pressure cooker too but every time I use it, I think it's going to explode lol......always waiting for that kaboom!

Sorry BIBI, Marvin lost the kaboom first.

I make dulce de leche in my crock pot. I put tin foil on the bottom of the slow cooker and sit them upright but basically like this http://taylortakesataste.com/dulce-...so-many-useses/

"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Sooner or later, there's always a boom."

-Susan Ivanova, executive officer, Babylon 5

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

3 - 4 boneless skinless chicken breast, cut in bite size pieces
I can cream of chicken soup
1/2 can of water
10 oz bag of frozen peas and carrots
1 pk refrigerated biscuits

Place chicken in crock pot
Add soup and water
Salt & pepper to taste.
Cook on low 4 hours
Add frozen veggies for last 45 min -- turn cooker to high.

Bake biscuits as directed.

Split biscuits in half, top with hot chicken, veggies, & gravy.

Also good over mashed potatoes.

When I was in high school my Mom had a pressure cooker blow up. She happened to be cooking beets and the red water / juice shot straight up making the white ceiling a huge mess, and it got the counter and floor !! Being the only daughter guess who got to clean it up? LOL

We never knew why it went kaboom that night. Mom had used it many times before and after recovering from the blow up used it many times after.

Oh, oldest brother got to paint the ceiling.

With his blood?

lol -- yep -- stripes and poka-dots.

I am going to try this one this coming Friday....my buddy and I take turns once a month trying to poison one another. This sounds like it will surely give him the need to nap at least lol.

We're due up for some crock pot split-pea soup soon. Yum.

I had never done soup in the crock pot cause I figured top of the stove was good. I made pea soup in my crock pot yesterday for the first time. It was so much easier, no stirring it for hours. Just start it up and walk away.

1 lb. split peas
2 qts chicken broth
1 c. chopped up leftover ham
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/2 c. diced carrots
1/2 c. diced red pepper
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. Rosemary
salt and pepper to taste

Put everything in crock pot. Stir well. Cook on high 4 to 5 hours, til peas are soft. Stir well and serve with some warm whole grain bread. Yummmm!!!

I put in a bit more carrots then called for, my family likes them.

. . . and there is not a single "can of" in the recipe.

See, yeah, I'd put in extra carrots instead of the onion-onion is horrible.

Onions are great. I usually put a really big white onion in my chili. The onion itself cooks out real sweet.

Baked onions are the only slimy food I enjoy.

Onions have a higher sugar content than apples which is why they brown so easily.

Have you ever noticed how hungry you can get reading the posts in this thread? :)

That's for sure DB !

Some threads make ya hungry for food, while other threads make ya hungry for..... other stuff ! ;)

Just don't start living in a gingerbread house and trying to cook Hansel & Gretel.