Recipes Needed

When I visited my daughter this past weekend, she had prepared a wonderful dish in the crockpot for our lunch meal. It reminded me I have a crockpot that I don't use because I have no tried and true recipes. So I am asking if those of you who use that "apparatus" to cook in would post your favorite recipe or PM me to send it. I think I would like to try using that crockpot.

Here are some of my favorites....I'll PM you with them, too.

Crockpot Pot Roast

3 lb. BONELESS chuck roast, UNseared
1 can Cream of Chicken OR Cream of Mushroom soup
1 envelope Lipton's Onion Soup mix
2/3 cup white wine

Place the roast whole in a large crockpot and smear the can of soup (not diluted) over the top of the roast. Empty the entire envelope of dry onion soup over the top of the soup and pour the wine around the edges of the roast. Do not add any water. Cover and cook for 10 hours on low. Makes a wonderful gravy and the meat is very tender. Serve with noodles or steamed Yukon Gold potatoes.

Note: You can add chunked potatoes or carrots around it, at the time you start the recipe, too. I served it over mashed potatoes for a great comfort meal. I used cream of mushroom soup....we're not really fond of "Cream of" anything, but this works.
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Crock Pot Pulled Pork Sandwiches - makes 10 generous servings

2-1/2 to 3 lb. pork sirloin roast or boneless pork shoulder roast
3 Tbsp. cider vinegar
2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. ground cumin OR chili powder
1/2 cup water
Homemade BBQ sauce (below) OR 3-1/2 cups of your favorite BBQ sauce
Hamburger buns

Trim fat from pork roast. Cut roast, if necessary, to fit into a 3-1/2 to 4 quart crock pot. Season meat with salt and pepper. In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup water, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and cumin or chili powder. Pour over meat in crock pot. Cover and cook on Low heat 8 to 10 hours or on High heat 4 to 5 hours. Remove meat and discard the cooking liquid.

Using two forks, shred the meat and return the meat to the crock pot. Stir in 2 cups of the BBQ sauce. Cover and cook on High heat 30 to 45 minutes or until heated through.

Serve the meat in split hamburger rolls. Pass the remaining BBQ sauce.

Homemade BBQ Sauce:

2-1/2 cups ketchup
1 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
3 Tbsp. bottled Pickapeppa Sauce or Worcestershire sauce
3 Tbsp. cider vinegar
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp. hot pepper sauce
I always add some Liquid Smoke, too

Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Use immediately or let it cool. Chill up to 3 days. Makes 3-1/2 cups of sauce.

Note: I used cumin instead of the chili powder. You will need a really good BBQ sauce for the pork. Use a sauce that you really like.

This is a good (and easy) recipe for when you either don't feel like messing around with your grill or it's too cold to grill outside, but you want pulled pork. Slathered with your favorite sauce and with some cole slaw, it's good stuff.
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Crockpot Baked Beans - almost a meal in itself

1-1/2 lb. ground beef
1 med. onion, diced (I use a nice large onion)
1 lb. bacon cut into 1/2-inch pices

Brown beef and onion, add bacon and cook until soft. Drain and add to crock pot.

Drain:
2 cans dark red kidney beans
2 cans butter beans
2 cans pork and beans

Add:
1 c. brown sugar (I use not quite 3/4 cup)
1 c. white sugar (I use not quite 3/4 cup)
1/2 c. molasses
1 c. ketchup
2 tsp. salt
2 T. vinegar
4 T. dry mustard

Mix everything together in the crockpot, turn on high. This should cook for about 30 minuted, then turn to low for about 5 hours. Stir occasionally, just to have a little taste.

Note: They can be sweet, esp if you're not used to sweeter baked beans. I've cut the sugar down a bit for us. You could probably decrease the amount further, if desired.

Leftovers freeze very well.
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Cranberry Roast Pork

1 boneless rolled pork loin
1 tsp. dry mustard
16 oz. can jelled cranberry sauce
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange juice

Place roast in crockpot. Combine other ingredients. Pour over roast. Cook on low 6-8 hours.

Remove roast and skim fat from liquid. Remove two cups of the juice (add water if needed). Bring to a boil over medium heat in saucepan.

Combine 2 tablespoons of cornrstarch with 2 tablespoons of water. Use the cornstarch slurry to thicken juice. Pour over pork and serve.

Holy moly! These recipes look so good! I'm going to try some of them!

I use my crockpot basically for cooking chicken, where I throw in cut up chicken pieces, quarter a couple of onions, quarter a couple of potatoes, some big chunks of celery and carrots, then season with salt, pepper, basil, a little lemon pepper. Then I cook it on the low setting for 8-10 hours.

I also use it for beef stew:

2 lb. stew meat
2 cups cut carrots
2 cups cut celery
2 cups cubed potatoes
4 onions - quartered
3 Tblsp. cornstarch
1 Tblsp. sugar
1 large can whole tomatoes
Whatever seasoning you like.
Stir it all up, turn on the crockpot, and that's it!

Yum. I'm hungry now.

You can do so much in a crock pot! Get the "Company's Coming" book for slow cooker recipes. It's amazing.

You can do anything from stews, roasts, deserts and even breads and pies in those things.