Crock Pot Recipes - Fort Worth,TX

Roast beef. Trim excess fat, add onion, carrots, celery and potatoes and a little water (an inch or so will do - this will make au jus and/or gravy). It is great that night hot, then another night in sandwiches (I like mine with mayo).

Here are some more recipe sites for you to peruse:
http://familycrockpotrecipes.com/
http://www.a-crock-cook.com/
http://crockpot.betterrecipes.com/
http://potcrockrecipes.com/

This blog has tons and tons of recipes that look delicious!!
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
(Alphabetical listing here: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2007/12/alphabetical-list...)
Here's another blog full pf recipes: http://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/

BBQ Beef Sandwiches (Never-fail!)

Get a 2 lb chuck roast.
Spray crock w/non stick spray.
Place roast and O. quartered onion in crock. (NO ADDED WATER!)
Cook on low 8 hrs.
Remove roast.
Drain any liquid.
Place roast back in crock.
Shred with 2 forks.
In bowl, mix 1 bottle BBQ sauce w/ 1/2 cup apricot preserves.
Pour over meat. Mix.
Cook another 15 minutes on low.
Serve on buns.
YUMMY!

This is a great link. Don't get overwhelmed! They are ALL easy!

http://www.50plusfriends.com/cookbook/crockpot/index-5b.html

Pot roast--peel and chunk carrots, potatoes, one onion, and one stalk of celery. Place in crockpot. Brown/sear a 3-4 pound roast on all sides in butter/small amount of oil (or not). You can roll in in seasoned flour (salt,pepper, paprika, garlic) before browning (or not). Place in crockpot on top of veggies. Add one-half to one cup water or bouillon. cover and cook on low 8-10 hours.

Chicken and veggies--same recipe, but brown chicken parts before laying in crockpot.

Ribs--get 3-4 pounds of ribs. Cut in serving size pieces if necessary. Boil or broil for 15-20 min to remove excess fat. Can do this the night before. Slice 1 or 2 onions and place in crockpot. Put in ribs. Pour a bottle of barbecue sace (or equivalent amount of homemade sauce) over ribs. Cover and cook on low 8-10 hours.

Pork chops--slice one or 2 onions, put in crockpot. May saute onions first if desired. Brown pork chops and put in crockpot. Pour barbecue sauce over. Cover and cook on low 8-10 hours.

Split pea soup--follow directions on package of split peas for amount of water. Place split peas and water in crockpot. Add chopped onion and sliced carrots and one stalk of celery (or not). Add a little salt and pepper. Cover and cook on low (sorry, I forget how long, but it is almost impossible to overcook). If too liquid when you are getting close to eating, remove cover and cook on high for a bit. Can add a hambone for great flavor. Can use lentils instead of split peas.

I can't think of any others right now but I use the little cookbook that came with my crockpot many years ago.

Have fun, it is a GREAT timesaver, and you eat healthier meals because you aren't snacking on junk (OK, that's what WE would do) waiting for dinner to be done!

K. Z.

Two easy ones:
Beef Stroganoff
3 cans cream mushroom soup, 1 env. onion soup mix, 1 c sour cream, 2 lbs stew meat. Pour first 3 ingredients in crockpot and stir. Add meat, stir and cook on low 8hrs or high 4-6hrs. Add another cup of sour cream at end of cook time. Cook pkg of egg noodles according to pkg directions and serve meat over noodles.

Easy Shredded Chicken Tacos
5-6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1-24oz jar of Pace Medium Picante Sauce
Place chicken breasts in crockpot, cover with picante sauce, cook low 8hrs or high 4-6hrs, shred chicken during last 15 minutes of cooking, serve with tortillas, taco fixings.

I like to get the crock pot seasoning packets. They will have recipes on the back. They are easy to do; usually it just has you add the meat, veggies, seasoning, and water.
They also have frozen crock pot meals. Most of these are pretty good, and extremely easy to make. All you have to do is put them in the crock pot.

Slow Cooker Carnitas - all the flavor but not all the fat! It's actually a way to braise the pork butt, and it takes almost no effort and you really can't mess it up either. I'm actually tripling the recipe and making it for my son's birthday party this weekend in a larger electric roaster, but I've also made it at home and with less meat just for my husband and I, and we definitely had leftovers to enjoy for lunch the next day :) I got the recipe from a cooking website, I think allrecipes.com or cooks.com. Those are both really good places to hunt for recipes online. Anyhow, on to the recipe...

Slow Cooker Carnitas

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon crumbled dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (4 pound) boneless pork shoulder roast
2 bay leaves
2 cups chicken broth

Directions:
1. Mix together salt, garlic powder, cumin, oregano, coriander, and cinnamon in a bowl. Coat pork with the spice mixture. Place the bay leaves in the bottom of a slow cooker and place the pork on top. Pour the chicken broth around the sides of the pork, being careful not to rinse off the spice mixture.
2. Cover and cook on Low until the pork shreds easily with a fork, about 10 hours. Turn the meat after it has cooked for 5 hours. When the pork is tender, remove from slow cooker, and shred with two forks. Use cooking liquid as needed to moisten the meat

***Notes: Cut up the roast into 4 to 6 smaller pieces to create more surface area for spice rub. Triple amount of spices (except cinnamon) to have enough to coat the meat on all sides. I usually use bone in pork butt instead of the roast, and I have the butcher cut it up in smaller pieces for me. When it's done the bones slide right out very easily. In fact the whole thing shreds with just tongs, you don't even need the forks!

Serve this as pulled pork on buns, or in tortillas, with or without sauce. My husband likes to add salsa or hot sauce to his, I like it plain, my sister chooses BBQ sauce. Whatever is your preference :) Enjoy!!

I found a really good recipe on Circle of Moms for what she called "fiesta chicken": http://www.circleofmoms.com/recipe-swap/Just-bought-a-cro...

It was seriously good - and you can add or substitute whatever you want to make it more geared towards your families' tastes.

Get a good pot roast, carrots, red potatoes and an onion. Trim the roast of extra fat, clean and cut the carrots, potatoes and onion. Add water to fill to the top of the veggies and meat add salt and pepper and cook on low for the day. Yummy dinner and yummy smelling house.

There is a slower cooker cook book out there that has great recipes also.

pulled pork, chicken or beef sandwiches. all you do is put it in in the morning with some water and minced garlic.. then when its tender you shred it and take all the liquid out. put the meat back in and pour your favorite bbq sauce over it. then stir well and let the flavor soak in. you can also do soups in it.