Cold Weather / Crock Pot recipes

[LightningCrash]

I wish I could hit my macro levels on this kind of stuff.

 

[Old Fart]

One of my favorites.

Brown whatever meat you like in your pot.
Dump all your leftover from the fridge in pot.
And a can or two of mixed veg in to add color.
Maybe a can or two of tomato sauce.
Cover with water.
Cook away.

 

[redneck1861]

One of my favorites.

Brown whatever meat you like in your pot.
Dump all your leftover from the fridge in pot.
And a can or two of mixed veg in to add color.
Maybe a can or two of tomato sauce.
Cover with water.
Cook away.

I dont know if I would like that too much, most of the "Leftovers" that are in my fridge, are in there cause they didn't taste good the first time

 

[jstaylor62]

Pork and Beans Cassoulet

1lb Great Northern White Beans rinsed and soaked overnight

1 yellow onion diced

4 cloves garlic minced

2 cups chicken stock

2lbs country style ribs, cut into chunks

1lb keilbasa sausage sliced into chunks

1 14oz can tomato sauce

2-3 bay leaves

2t dried thyme

1 cup dry white wine

Put the beans and chicken stock into crockpot...saute the onions and garlic in a skillet with a little bacon fat or oil...add the pork ribs and sausage...lightly brown...add wine and simmer a few minutes to reduce...transfer meat into crockpot...add tomato sauce, bay leaves and thyme...simmer for 8 hours or until the pork starts shredding

 

[poopgiggle]

I make BBQ pork in my crock pot. The recipe is pretty easy.

Cover a 5 lb (depending on the size of your crock pot) Boston cut of pork shoulder with dry rub. Rub it in, then put it in a Ziploc bag in the fridge overnight.

Cut up an onion, then put it in the crock pot with your pork shoulder. Fill ~4/5 of the way up with water. Put it on "low" for 10-12 hours.

Pour everything out into a colander so it drains. Remove the shoulder bone and the onion. Put all the meat back in the crock pot, set to "warm." Shred the meat with a couple forks. Pour in a bottle of BBQ sauce and mix it up. Serves 1 grad student for about a week.

If you just shred the pork without adding the BBQ sauce, you can add use it for all kinds of things like tacos. I'm sort of lazy though, and I really like BBQ, so I just make everything barbecued.

I made chicken and rice soup a while ago, but I didn't so much use a recipe as throw stuff into the pot. It turned out pretty well but I can't remember what I did exactly

I have a crock-pot cookbook around here someplace that I need to dig up, now that it's cooling off. If I make anything out of it that I really like I'll post the recipe.

E: Oh, another good thing a crock pot is good for is making chicken broth.

Assuming you're a cool guy who buys whole chickens (instead of buying chicken breasts or drumsticks or something like a huge dweeb), cut the wings, legs, and breasts off the thing and make whatever you're going to make with it. Throw the rest of the carcass in the pot, along with the bones left over from the chicken you just ate. Dice up some mirepoix (carrots, onions, celery) and throw that in there too. Throw a bunch of salt and pepper in there, along with a bay leaf. Other spices are really up to you; I normally start with parsley and then play it by ear. Cover everything with water. Set your crock pot to High for 3 hours to get it boiling, then set it to Simmer for as long as you want. I normally go to "until I feel like emptying the pot," so my broth simmers for a good day and a half. Strain the broth, then put it in Tupperware containers in your freezer. Thaw it when you want to use it for something.

After you start making your own chicken broth, you won't buy it at the store anymore. It tastes better, it's better for you, and it's basically free.

 

[WTJ]

Arm roast and the canned or dry packaged soup of your choice. Speedy to set up, lots of variations, and good. Do not add water.

 

[Blinocac200sx]

Super easy

1 pork roast
1 large jar of apple sauce

place pork roast in roaster and cover with apple sauce cook for 8 hours on low

Be forewarned, it will be so tender, you will have trouble removing it from the crock pot.

 

[Hump66]

Get a corned beef - the kind with a hump.

Dump it along with the packet of dill and seeds that come with it in the crock pot.
Add enough water to just cover the meat. Cook on low about 8 hours or high about 5.

Cut up enough cabbage, potatoes and carrots to feed 4 to 6 people. Turn crock pot up to high and chunk in the carrots. Chunk in the potatoes about 5 to 10 minutes later (potatoes cook faster than carrots). Depending on how you like your cabbage chunk it in so that that can cook at least 10 minutes so that carrots total cook time is 30 minutes.

Almost done here. When the cabbage is done and the carrots are tender and the potatoes still a bit firm dump the whole mess out in a big ole bowl. Save the juice. Remove the meat and slice it. While you're slicing the meat bring a cup or two of the juice to a boil along with a couple of tablespoons of butter (better) or margarine (OK). When you're done slicin' the meat turn off the heat on the juice and add some mustard and black pepper (coarse ground is best). Stir it all up till mixed up good. Take a tbsp or so of flour and add enough milk to mix it up to a smooth slurry. Dump slurry into hot juice mix stirring all the while. The flour will thicken the stuff up. If it doesn't or not enough turn the fire back on to reheat the juice (don't boil though). Thicken to taste - might have to add a bit more flour. When done you've got a very tasty mustard gravy that is great on the corned beef and IMO equally good poured over the top of a healthy serving of vegetables.

Pretty close to a New Englaned boiled dinner - the mustard gravy is my touch.

Enjoy!

This, but substitute some of the water with Guinness.

 

[Shadowrider]

Okay here's my "swiss steak" concoction. Alter as you like.

Trim fat off and cut round steak into pieces.
Sear them in olive oil seasoned with a little seasoned salt and ALOT of garlic salt and some black pepper.
Lay steak pieces in the bottom of the crock pot.
Add 2 (or 3 depending on how much steak you have) cans plain diced tomatoes.
1 cup chopped onion
Enough bell pepper to suit your taste (I don't use much 'cause I'm not big on BP)
Chop up some zucchini squash or even better, eggplant (optional. I use alot)
Add about 1.5 cups of water (more or less is okay)
Add more season salt
Add more garlic salt
Add Italian seasoning
Add more black pepper
Turn on crock pot to high until it just starts to boil and then turn on low.

Don't even bother with tenderized round steak, the meat will fall apart when cooked.

Let it cook all day and ladle onto a mound of white rice when serving. YUMmmmm....

 

[CHenry]

buy some of this at the store
http://www.buythecase.net/product/14107/hursts_15_bean_soup_mix/?utm_source=googleps&utm_medium=shopping&utm_term=Hurst's%2015%20Bean%20Soup%20Mix
and a length of your favorit sausage like hickory farms, slice sausage and add to crock pot then follow instructions on package of beans. This is REALLY simple and fast and tastes GREAT.
Substitute the meet for deer sausage, ground round or whatever you want.