This is one of my go-to meals. When all else fails, it’s easy to throw chicken, potatoes, carrots and onions in the crockpot and let it do its thing. A quick pan of cornbread and maybe a steamed green veggie and you’ve got a comforting warm meal with little effort. [Read more…] about Sunday Chicken Dinner in the Slow Cooker
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Salsa Verde Steak in the Slow Cooker
This is so good and easy. A delicious Mexican meal that cooks in a crockpot – 2 of my favorite things. I adapted the recipe from The Ungourmet.
Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more…] about Salsa Verde Steak in the Slow Cooker
Complete Barbecue Chicken Dinner in the Slow Cooker
A whole Barbecue Chicken Dinner cooked in the slow cooker! The trick is in foil packets and layering the food, something I learned from Stephanie at A Year of Slow Cooking. She used the trick to make steak, baked potatoes and corn on the cob in the slow cooker. I’ve used her trick to cook ham with Hashbrown Casserole.
I love pulling everything out of the crockpot, done and ready to go. Clean up is a breeze too, because there’s just the crock to wash. [Read more…] about Complete Barbecue Chicken Dinner in the Slow Cooker
Mel’s Diner Chili
A few weeks ago I helped with a chili cook-off at church. I’m not a big chili fan, so the thought of bringing a pot of chili was a bit scary. I went on a search for great chili recipes and one of my readers who follows me on twitter saw my request. Judy emailed me this recipe for Mel’s Diner Chili.
I didn’t end up having to take the chili to the cook-off because lots of other people signed up (I took the Chipotle Apple Pecan Cake instead). But since I had the ingredients and because the chili has such a great story – and I’m a sucker for a great story – I made the chili for dinner at home. Yum!
Here’s Judy’s email with the original recipe and the story: [Read more…] about Mel’s Diner Chili
Round Steak with Vegetable Gravy in the Slow Cooker
I found this recipe stuck in my tattered recipe binder, jotted on a calendar page from 1998. I used to make it quite a bit, but somehow forgot about it. I’m glad that I found it again, because it’s really easy and good. [Read more…] about Round Steak with Vegetable Gravy in the Slow Cooker