Slow Cooker Recipies

We got our slow cooker this week!!! It's going to be a god send with dh working nights and me working days. He's been doing most of the cooking, but sometimes he goes to bed late and gets up when I get home, so this way he can throw stuff into the cooker when he goes to bed and forget about it! Yay!!!

He did a beef stew the other night that was really yummy, but I'm sort of red-meated out right now. I'm going to suggest the BBQ pork thing next. That sounds EXCELLENT!!!

try my chicken!!!!!!!

I've already bought two of these as wedding gifts this year. It is the "fondue pot" of the 2000s. I secretly want one myself... or not so secretly as I've said it out loud multiple times, ha ha.

I am not much of a meat person but I am curious about other dishes like beans and such, ideas...

sure veggie chilli

lots of root veggies

pasta sauces....

ah great!

I like gadgets  I have a running list of the stuff I want to buy when I move... iron, bread maker, water pot and crock pot. 

ah great!

I like gadgets  I have a running list of the stuff I want to buy when I move... iron, bread maker, water pot and crock pot. 

water pot?

water pot?

Electric kettle - but that's a guess. 

~Liza

i thought that might be it too... or she might mean one of those Brita water filter jugs?

Just wondering!

electric kettle, the word escaped me while I was typing

I am not much of a meat person but I am curious about other dishes like beans and such, ideas...

We eat a lot of vegetarian, but I usually don't cook them in the crockpot, because most of my veg recipes are so quick and easy just on the stove.  I tend to just use my crockpot for those beef cravings! 

Here's one recipe that I tried out for a black bean stew.  It is a little fiddly, because it uses dried beans and you have to soak them overnight and boil them on the stove for a while, and then you have to add some of the ingredients halfway through cooking.  It was a very tasty soup, though!  I would make it with canned beans, but I haven't found canned black beans anywhere here!

http://soup.allrecipes.com/az/BzisBlckBnSp.asp

Does anyone have a slow cooker recipe book that is any good?  I know that my bf is going to buy me a slow cooker for Christmas as I've been going on about getting one but haven't...

Does anyone have a slow cooker recipe book that is any good?  I know that my bf is going to buy me a slow cooker for Christmas as I've been going on about getting one but haven't...

My slow cooker came with a small recipe book.

Here's one recipe that I tried out for a black bean stew. http://soup.allrecipes.com/az/BzisBlckBnSp.asp

thanks JessicaAnne, coincidentally i had a pot of black beans boiling on the stove when I read this... and um, heard them frying, oops  but they were salvaged and thrown together to try this receipe.

i'm excited for the black bean soup recipie as i just bought a bag full of dried black beans from the local organic store!     Thanks!!!!

YAY!! I just persuaded my hubby to buy me one yesterday....and there's even room for it on the kitchen counter!! How cool is that!? Now I'm off to look for recipes...