I am on a search for some great recipes using a slow cooker. I have a home daycare and would like the recipes to be kid friendly. Do you have any that your family loves?
I tried to copy and paste from an email but it didn't work. I see that others have already given advice.
2 ideas for you:
1. Sweet/sour meatballs-buy packaged meatballs (we like Mama Lucia)...melt 1 sm jar grape jelly w/a jar of chili sauce (find it near ketschup) on the stove-pour over the meatballs & let them slow cook-yum!
2. Put a whole chicken in w/2 cups water & season to taste-sometimes use Montreal Chicken seasoning or lemon pepper or just salt/pepper...after the chicken is cooked, pull out & separate meat from bones-add 1 bag of noodles (we love the Kluski kind!) to the broth-turn up to high & let them cook adding some of the chicken...delicious chicken & noodles & enough meat left for chicken salad or something else later in the week.
Of course, the typical roast: use, really, any cut of meat and put it in there with a bunch of water (just covering the meat). After a time, add cut onions, carrots, celery, garlic, salt and pepper and some potatoes at the end. Yum!
Also, we do pork barbecue. Put a pork loin in there and cook it in very little water and then pour a huge bottle of whatever sauce you love on top and let it go. We use Dinosaur Sauce from Wegmans. Unbelievable.
We've also done lasagna in there. Layer it the same way you do in a pan but use UNCOOKED noodles. The top isn't crispy like in the oven but still tastes yummy! I usualy take the top off or at least prop it open for the last hour or so so it isn't so soggy.
Best of luck!
Hi A.,
The website allrecipes.com has a whole section for slow cookers. It is free and I use it all of the time.
B.
www.crockpot.com has some good recipes.
A. - I also run an inhome daycare and have a ton of crockpot recipes - e-mail me directly and I'll send them to you :0) ____@____.com
Here is a great website with ALOT of recipes:
http://www.50plusfriends.com/cookbook/crockpot/index-5b.html
I'm sure you will find some great things.
I make steel cut oatmeal for my family in the slow cooker. I also make a chili that I found on http://www.crock-pot.com/Recipes.aspx
Those are the 2 favs in my family.
I love crockpot365.blogspot.com
Her recipes are yummy and easy, I think I'm going to make her Lemon Chicken tonight!
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
I like this website. I have only made the applesauce so far and it is awesome!
The last recipe website you will ever need.
Just yesterday, a friend of mine sent me an email with about 100 crock pot recipe links. I cant figure out how to copy and paste the link on here, but if you will email me, I will forward the email to you. My email address is ____@____.com and if you will put your subject as Crockpot Recipes??? I will watch for it in my junk mail.
