Slow Cooker Recipies

...pour over a can/jar of green salsa... 

What kind & where do you buy green salsa 'over here'?

Is it true that you can switch to cheaper cuts of meat if you use a slow cooker 'cause it makes just about anything turn out really tender? I'm just thinking that maybe that might be an angle to con dh into buying one right away - "but honey, our weekly shop would be cheaper 'cause I could buy cheaper meat!"

Yes, it's true.  Buy the cheapest ones you can find and they will still be fall-apart tender.  And delicious.

My Crock Pot went bye-bye yesterday, since we obviously aren't taking it with us.  I'm so sad.... :\\\'(  I love my Crock-Pot and can't wait to buy a new one when we get there.

What kind & where do you buy green salsa 'over here'?

Lupe Pintos!

I suppose you could use red salsa too, but i prefer green.

Lupe Pintos!

I suppose you could use red salsa too, but i prefer green.

And where do you buy Lupe Pintos green salsa?

You MUST have heard us talking about Lupe Pintos on UKY before! 

www.lupepintos.com

OK you guys, two pages and only one recipe?? 

Excellent beef roast - Grandma style

One chuck roast - whatever size you need for your family
Water - about two to three cups
Dry onion soup mix - one packet
Worchestershire Sauce - a few dashes
One can of Cream of Mushroom soup
One bay leaf
Fresh ground pepper and salt to taste - go light on the salt, the soups have plenty

Fresh baby carrots
Sliced onion
Cubed peeled potato
Garlic cloves - about two at least, I use six but I'm a garlic fiend

Ok - cut slits in the roast with a sharp pointed knife.  Slice the garlic in slivers and shove the slivers into the meat all over the place. 

Combine all other ingredients except the veggies.  Mix it up good to make a sauce.

Place the veggies in the bottom of the crock pot - this is important - they must be under the meat or they may not cook.

Place the meat on top and pour over sauce mixture.

Cook according to your cooker's instructions for the size of roast you bought.

When it's done, thicken the sauce if needed with a bit of corn starch and water or whatever other means you usually use. 

Remove the roast and veggies and keep warm. 

Have a one pound box of fettuccini noodles all cooked and ready to go.  Dump the cooked noodles in the sauce and turn the cooker back up to high for awhile until the noodles have absorbed some of the sauce and become heavenly.  Keep the lid on the cooker so the sauce doesn't get too thick.

Throw it all in a big serving dish/caserole and serve!!

YUM!!!!

~Liza

you can't mess up things in a slow cooker! it's magic! as long as there is water/juice/soup/something to cover it!!!!

mmm....reminds me i need to start using mine again!

DH loves pork in there with saur kraut.....it's great!

i like to throw a whole chicken in there (after being cleaned), some garlic, some lemon, some spices and it's heaven!

OK time to share the magic that was my dinner last night.

2 cans of cream of chicken soup (one was low fat from the US but doesn't matter!)
half a can of water
organic chicken breast cubes (frozen)
frozen peas (a cup ish)
5 white mushrooms, sliced
2 carrots, sliced
a red onion
10 new potatoes, cut in half.
a shake of pepper


put potatoes and onions down first, then chicken, rest of veg and poured soup all over and a tiny bit of water

cooked for 11 hours on low

served with bisquick 'scones' (plain) and it was HEAVEN.  just like a pot pie. 

Wrapped chicken breasts:

Take boneless chicken breasts and wrap them in thinly sliced beef (I use cheap lunch meat) and then wrap with a piece of bacon and secure with a couple of toothpicks. Place in bottom of crock pot. Top with a can of cream of mushroom soup, add salt and pepper to taste. You can also add a can of cream of celery if you want, I have cooked both ways and are great, just a little different flavor. Cook on low for about six hours or until the chicken is done. The last 30 minutes of cook time, add a cup of sour cream, give a little stir and let this blend together. This makes a great sauce for rice.

My family loves this recipe.

My mom used to just take a roast (beef) put it in the crock pot, pour a bottle of bar-b-que sauce over it, with just a bit of water, and let it cook on low overnight. Man, did it make the yummiest roast beef sandwiches!!! It just shredded apart, and was totally yummy on a hamburger bun, with a bit of the sauce dripping over.

Slow Cooker going on the Christmas list for sure now!!!!

My mom used to just take a roast (beef) put it in the crock pot, pour a bottle of bar-b-que sauce over it, with just a bit of water, and let it cook on low overnight. Man, did it make the yummiest roast beef sandwiches!!! It just shredded apart, and was totally yummy on a hamburger bun, with a bit of the sauce dripping over.

Ooooo!!!  Do the same thing with pork "country ribs" - deadly good!!!

~Liza

Ooooo!!!  Do the same thing with pork "country ribs" - deadly good!!!

~Liza

Also good with pork roast.  In fact, as a child -- after one such feast (bbq pork roast shredded sandwiches in a bun)...we left the table, only to return a bit later, finding our small terrier had helped herself onto the table and was upended (head in, feet sticking up) in the crock pot feasting as well (the cooker had been switched off to cool so there was no danger of bbq roasted terrier as well).   

I just made these sandwiches this week.  Awesome!  The recipe is not for a slow cooker, but I cooked my meat in there with a little beef broth until the meat shredded (about 6-8 hours), then drained out the broth and added the sauce for the last half hour of cooking.   http://beef.allrecipes.com/az/BarbecueBeefForSandwiches.asp

We made these to go along with the sandwiches, but since my crockpot was already full of the beef, I just cooked these up in a pot.  Yummy!  I used garlic & herb light cream cheese in them.  http://sidedish.allrecipes.com/az/SlwCkrMshdPtts.asp

Another favorite recipe for shredded beef burritos.  You could probably use whatever cut of beef you want, but my original recipe called for a London Broil.  Pop the meat in the slow cooker with one chopped onion, a small can of diced green chilies, and two tablespoons of vinegar.  Cook it all day until the meat shreds.  We like to simmer a drained can of whole pinto beans in a little bit of tomato paste, water, and taco seasoning until it thickens up a little, and add that in the burrito with a little lettuce, black olives, cheese, avocado, and salsa.  Mmmm!