Have you ever made a recipe that just didn’t turn out? I’ve done it a lot of times, but one I remember well.
Jim and I were recently married and I was just learning to cook. We used to invite friends to come to dinner and I would make a new recipe. Most of our other meals during the week consisted of ramen noodles or instant potatoes. We were college students and had no money, so it was a splurge to buy ingredients for a nice meal once a week.
On this occasion, I made a dish that had chicken, Italian sausage, potatoes and tomatoes in it. The recipe called to bake it in the oven for 1 hour. Needless to say, that was not nearly a long enough cooking time for so much meat and raw potatoes. When I served it, we cut into raw chicken. Yuck!
Thankfully, the guests we had were also college students. They were easily satisfied with a bowl of cereal until the dinner had more time to cook.
I never tried making that recipe again, but I remember that when it finally cooked it did taste good. So when Frigidaire recently asked me to share a “do-over” recipe, I knew this would be the one. Except this time I made it in the slow cooker to give it a good, long cook time.
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Back to my do-over recipe. Here’s what you’ll need to try the slow cooker version, which worked out much better than the oven method I used so many years ago. [Read more…] about Turkey Legs, Italian Sausage and Potatoes in the Slow Cooker