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Crock Pot Recipes?

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  • Steph_in_Mississippi
    Steph_in_Mississippi Posts: 70 Member
    :smile: Yum!
  • KMMRN
    KMMRN Posts: 104 Member
    One chicken breast and cover with your about a half of a jar favorite salsa (I like walmarts mango lime) cook all day. Shred and serve in a taco shell, or with rice, or however you want. Add a nice salad on the side One of my go to meals.
  • Lucy_6678
    Lucy_6678 Posts: 63 Member
    bump
  • KMMRN
    KMMRN Posts: 104 Member
    Yes yes yes!
  • dan_IRL
    dan_IRL Posts: 204 Member
    be careful with a half a jar of salsa. that's a lot of sodium
  • MzLaLa29
    MzLaLa29 Posts: 258 Member
    bump
  • LinFlemmer331
    LinFlemmer331 Posts: 100 Member
    Bump! All theses recipes sound delicious, and as the weather gets colder the old crockpot will come out!
  • mvanzante
    mvanzante Posts: 8 Member
    I didn't read through all the other posts to see if I'm repeating something, but I wanted to give some input.

    The best crockpot tip I ever heard was concerning a lamp timer. If you want to use your crockpot to cook dinner while you're at work, it can be hard to find recipes that take a full day to cook. This is where the lamp timer comes in. You can set it to start at, say, 2:30 PM, so that your 3 hrs crockpot recipe is done by the time you get home at 5:30 PM. However, you also want to maintain safe cooking conditions -- don't put thawed chicken into a crockpot that's not gonna start cooking for 6 hours. Instead, start with a frozen or partially frozen chicken so that it thaws during the pre-cooking period.

    As for recipes, a lot of people like the convenience of cooking steel cut oats in a crockpot overnight so that it's ready for breakfast. Yum!
  • dan_IRL
    dan_IRL Posts: 204 Member
    The best crockpot tip I ever heard was concerning a lamp timer. If you want to use your crockpot to cook dinner while you're at work, it can be hard to find recipes that take a full day to cook. This is where the lamp timer comes in. You can set it to start at, say, 2:30 PM, so that your 3 hrs crockpot recipe is done by the time you get home at 5:30 PM. However, you also want to maintain safe cooking conditions -- don't put thawed chicken into a crockpot that's not gonna start cooking for 6 hours. Instead, start with a frozen or partially frozen chicken so that it thaws during the pre-cooking period.

    This is the best advice I have heard in quite some time. I never thought of that! I always did my crockpotting on the weekends because I was scared of burning the house down, or even worse, burning my beef stew after 10 hours of cooking while I'm at work!
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