What's in Your Crock Pot

[idiot]

I actually use the crock pot to cook beans all the time. sometimes they are just beans to use other ways, and sometimes they turn into soups.

crockpots are so good for soups.

[idiot]

And to cook dry beans I have found that (after soaking 24 hours) they take around 2-3 hours on high setting. advres is probably right about the time being 7-8 hours on low, but I usually don't do that unless following a recipe or including a chunk of meat. At that point the setting goes to low.

[Tye 1on]

Yes I have, I make feijoada perhaps once a month or so and it's fuckin delicious. Here is a basic recipe for this and works well in the crock. Like other have said let the beans soak overnight.

http://www.eatdangerously.com/feijoada.html

Awesome! What's not to like about a cookbook that is titled 'Eat dangerously, blow health out your ass'. !

[concretejungle]

Chicken breasts, potatoes, bottle of italian dressing, seasoning, parm.

We'll see how it goes.

[iceman]

We need to distill this thread down to the best recipes somehow, it's too much to wade through. The "Pepperry Asian Ribs" and Skibee's "Peanut Stew" seem to be solid favorites. Beyond that I'm unsure.

Looking for:
Best Pot Roast
Best Chili Verde (grr has one that sounds good early in the thread)
Best Beef/Lamb Stew
Best red Chili
Best (or several best) Chicken recipes.
Feijoada sounds good although f someone has a recipe already adapted to the crock that would be good.
Red Beans and Rice? Anyone?
Best game/venison dish?
Others?

Maybe this should be a new thread I dunno.

[Danno]

The beef short rib recipe Tipp posted was money.

The chicken thigh recipe I posted has now been made a couple of times, really freaking tasty and really easy/cheap.

The chili verde recipe is also fantastic.

Haven't made skibee's stew but I guess I should.

[Moeghoul]

Making a lentil soup

[Sinecure]

Saw This Article today online. Lots of tips on Crock Pot cooking and links to recipes.

[MakersTeleMark]

Good recipes in there:

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_me...2#view_toggles

[~mikey b]

we've been doing bloatmeal in ours lately - fkn easy

2 cups water per 1 cup steel-cut oats - add fruit, nuts, etc - cook on low overnight

scored a CrockPot Slow Cooker Recipe Collection cookbook at TJ Maxx today for cheep (and Icebreaker ski socks for Krystal Kartwright)

[Danno]

Saw This Article today online. Lots of tips on Crock Pot cooking and links to recipes.

Some of those tips are good, but it all lost legitimacy when she said "Never attempt to cook a whole ... roast in your slow cooker: large hunks of meat won’t cook thoroughly enough in the slow cooker. So when cooking with meat, make sure it’s cut into smaller pieces that will cook throughout." Bullshit.

[DasBlunt]

Hungarian Mushroom soup

[MakersTeleMark]

Hungarian Mushroom soup

A destined classic. Thanks for the post.

[Bobby Stainless]

Crock Pot Stoke. .. lol.

Real Chicken Soup.


24 hour Hawaiian Pig.

[HuckBunny]

Beef Bourgoine
Vegetable juice
mushrooms
browned beed cubes in garlic and olive oil
onions
red wine
cilantro
garlic

cook in crockpot for 8-12 hours
boil off excess water

enjoy!

[Sinecure]

I'm now the proud owner of this:




It is big though (7qt). I'm a bachelor (not confirmed) so I'll need to invite some folks over to share whatever I cook. Hopefully my kids will like some of what I make. It came with the cute "Little Dipper" thing that you see next to it. Not sure what that's for, but I'm guessing bbq sauce or whatever else. I'll have to RTFM. While I was at Costco I got a leg of lamb and some stew beef. It's going to smell nice in my house this weekend. I just washed it out so I'm ready to go.

I'm thinking lemon garlic rosemary lamb for a start. My neighbor has a lemon tree, rosemary grows wild everywhere around here, and I have loads of garlic. Some spuds and baby carrots and I should be good to go. Yum.

[advres]

Thing looks mint. Love the little baby one next to it. I cook in the crock all the time and have been single up until recently. Just freeze shit. Having a bunch of frozen soups, stews, whatever in the freezer has been an awesome thing for me because on nights I don't feel like cooking I always have something homemade and tasty to eat. Before I started slow cooking my freezer had frozen vegetables, vodka and ice in it. I like it with meals in there a whole lot more!

Let us know how the maiden voyage goes. enjoy.

[Sinecure]

Thanks advres. BTW, I'm bummed you locked that thread. The penultimate page was one of the few times I actually LOL'd while reading TGR. Plus I got a new quote for my signature from bklyn's last post in there. SFB musta been pretty baked in those last few exchanges.

I'll see about posting a TR on the maiden voyage. I should go take a picture of my neighbor's lemon tree and one of my rosemary shrubs in anticipation.

[DasBlunt]

Hungarian Mushroom soup

A destined classic. Thanks for the post.

It was ridiculously awesome. I had it over some special japanese brown rice. Then we pulled out some guacamole and for some reason threw that in. Crockpot madness.

[MakersTeleMark]

It was ridiculously awesome. I had it over some special japanese brown rice. Then we pulled out some guacamole and for some reason threw that in. Crockpot madness.

So post up the recipe already.

[BigKuba]

Not in a crock pot because I don't have one that big, but I think it belongs in this thread

Bigos

3 cabbages, sliced thin and blanched
4 jars of sauerkraut (the briny kind, not the vinegary kind)

As many kinds of meat as you can find. I have 8:
- bacon
- ham steak
- sausage
- different kind of sausage
- beef stew
- pork shoulder/country style ribs
- smoked pork shank
- roasted chicken

~80 prunes, finely chopped
Few handfuls of dried porcinis, rehydrated and sliced thinly, with water
6-8 onions (i lost count), sliced and browned
Bottle of cheap red wine

Peppercorns
Allspice
Bay leaves
Salt & Pepper

Prepare each meat separately (e.g., fry bacon, brown beef in bacon fat, brown & cook pork with some carrots & celery, but discard those veggies -- they have no place in bigos)

Throw everything together

Simmer for as long as possible, adding water so the solids are 75-90% covered

I'm running at 12+ hours, and it's starting to get good:


Scale down accordingly if you're not making enough for the whole winter -- Aim for 1/1 mix of cabbage & sauerkraut and 3/2 mix of cabbage product to meat. But given the amount of prep needed for each meat item, it's worth it to go big.

Serve, salt & pepper to taste. Serve with crusty bread, booze, and optional briny pickles (Bubbies brand is the closest to real Polish briny pickles)

Oh, it keeps in the freezer forever, and every reheating makes it better

Na zdrowie, bitches

[teletripper]

Not in a crock pot because I don't have one that big, but I think it belongs in this thread

Bigos

3 cabbages, sliced thin and blanched
4 jars of sauerkraut (the briny kind, not the vinegary kind)

As many kinds of meat as you can find. I have 8:
- bacon
- ham steak
- sausage
- different kind of sausage
- beef stew
- pork shoulder/country style ribs
- smoked pork shank
- roasted chicken

~80 prunes, finely chopped
Few handfuls of dried porcinis, rehydrated and sliced thinly, with water
6-8 onions (i lost count), sliced and browned
Bottle of cheap red wine

Peppercorns
Allspice
Bay leaves
Salt & Pepper

Prepare each meat separately (e.g., fry bacon, brown beef in bacon fat, brown & cook pork with some carrots & celery, but discard those veggies -- they have no place in bigos)

Throw everything together

Simmer for as long as possible, adding water so the solids are 75-90% covered

I'm running at 12+ hours, and it's starting to get good:


Scale down accordingly if you're not making enough for the whole winter -- Aim for 1/1 mix of cabbage & sauerkraut and 3/2 mix of cabbage product to meat. But given the amount of prep needed for each meat item, it's worth it to go big.

Serve, salt & pepper to taste. Serve with crusty bread, booze, and optional briny pickles (Bubbies brand is the closest to real Polish briny pickles)

Oh, it keeps in the freezer forever, and every reheating makes it better

Na zdrowie, bitches

Holy shit!! I know what is on the menu this weekend and will freeze some of that for reheating in the start shack on a slow race day.

[BigKuba]

Thank you sir. According to one of my non-Polish friends who's made her own, there's no way to screw this up -- just keep simmering and fiddling until it's there. So get after it.

I'm also finding that the dutch oven in the lower left heats it better/faster -- that batch is winning the race vs the other pots right now.

Warning: This makes for prodigious farts [/Captain Obvious]

[DasBlunt]

Hungarian Mushroom soup out of this book,
http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Slow-Coo.../dp/1592334644

[concretejungle]

Hungarian Mushroom soup out of this book,
http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Slow-Coo.../dp/1592334644

Are you fucking retarded? Post the damn recipe.

My chicken thing above was tasty but I cooked it too long. 7 hours should be good.