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Croctober
Fire up that Crockpot / Slow Cooker - found some recipes for each day of October here Let me know if you make any and how they turn out. Enjoy
Croctober
Fire up that Crockpot / Slow Cooker - found some recipes for each day of October here Let me know if you may any and how they turn out. Enjoy
Easter
Do you have any special crock pot recipes for Easter cooking?
CHRISTMAS 2014
Tis the season to be jolly.... What will you be cooking this Christmas? Share your recipes right here and let's make this a fabulous Christmas. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
THANKSGIVING 2014
Everyone's invited to celebrate and bring along their favorite recipe to the "virtual party". Thanksgiving is always busy and our crock-pots will be working extra hard over the holidays. Share your classics, party saver or the down-right bizarre Thanksgiving recipes. Do you have one that always goes down a storm and leaves…
Discussions
Make your Oatmeal more exciting!
Found this interesting recipe on my internet travels - interesting spin, has all the benefits of cooking it overnight and waking up to this would be great as a treat from time-to-time ihearteating.com/2013/01/30/overnight-crockpot-german-chocolate-oatmeal/
Teryaki Slow Cooker Beef
This morning was slow cooker beef day with onion, carrots and tomatoes - the beef was marinaded overnight in Teriyaki sauce and cooked on low for 8 hours - smells great and nothing to do but eat now I'm back home. Probably going to have it with either rice or a few potatoes - depends how I feel later.
What's your favorite Crock-Pot Recipe?
Once I get a Crock-Pot I'd love to try this recipe for Sweet Potato, Chicken and Quinoa Soup http://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/slow-cooker-sweet-potato-chicken-and-quinoa-soup/#_a5y_p=2362800
Did you make a 4th July Crock-pot meal?
Why not share your tried and tested 4th July crock-pot meals here?
Easter Slow Cooker Meal
Decided to have a slow cooker meal for our Easter dinner Beef cubes marinaded overnight in teriyaki sauce and worcestershire sauce Baby Carrots 1 x red onion chopped 1 large green pepper chopped Large handful of green collards 3 sticks of celery chopped 2 Beef Maggi stock cubes Half a can of chopped tomatoes Put the…
Frozen Veggies
Does anyone use frozen veggies in their slow cooker recipes? Interested to hear if it works well or whether they disintegrate. Do you have to defrost them first? Thanks.
Soups
Today I made a Chicken and Vegetable soup which was very tasty, quick and easy to make. I added some Pastina at the end as something different instead of using potatoes in the soup. The pasta is so cute - they are tiny stars. Makes you wonder how they made them - so super tiny. They do plump up after cooking. You can find…
Easy Slow Cooker Meal: Sausage
Today I made a yummy sausage type casserole in the slow cooker and I can confirm it was super delicious. To save trying to write the recipe out here I've popped it on my blog Travelling Banana travellingbanana.com/easy-slow-cooker-meal-sausage/#more-525 There you will be able to see the ingredients I used and some pictures…
Breakfast
Do you cook breakfast in the slow cooker? Found this one on MFP - looks delicious. https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/2014/11/slow-cooker-bacon-egg-hash-brown-casserole/
You Can Slow Cook That?
Everyone knows you can slow cook soups, chilli, beef stew and so many other crockpot classics but what have you discovered by mistake / experimenting, that sounds a little left field, but totally works out great? I've heard that you can successfully bake bread in the slow cooker. Anyone tried it? What were the results?…
