Category: Crockpot

  • 31 Days of Slow Cooking – Crockpot bbq ribs

    Reposted from January 2011 When it’s a work day, I often want easy meals. I need to have dinner on the table soon after I get home. This has to be done before my hubby goes to work.  This recipe is super easy because it cooks while I’m at work.  The smells that meet me…

  • Menu Plan Monday – October 12, 2015

    Welcome to day #12 of my 31 days of Slow Cooking.  Since it’s Monday, I will share my menu for the week.  Once again, I’m going to use the crock pot for cooking my meals for the week. Monday – Slow Cooker Ravioli, green beans, ciabatta bread Tuesday – Slow Cooker Cheese Steak, Sloppy Joes,…

  • 31 Days of Slow Cooking (Day 6) – Baked Potatoes

    I told my family I was going to do this challenge.  They are very supportive of my taking on this challenge.  In fact, Hubby decided to surprise me by changing the area where the crock pot is located.  He didn’t like how it was in the back of the counter. The meat on the cutting…

  • It’s a family tradition to have pork and sauerkraut for our New Year’s dinner.  My father-in-law would make a big pot of it and family members would eat the sauerkraut so that they would have good luck for the new year.  Since he died two weeks ago, I offered to make it this year. I…

  • A few days ago, Tiffany from Eat at Home posted a recipe for cranberry orange oatmeal cooked in the slow cooker.  I’ve attempted to make oatmeal in the slow cooker, and it did not turn out pretty.  Most of it was wasted. This recipe turned out great because I found a different way to cook…

  • Mmm!  Comfort food makes you feel good inside.  Pot roast is one of those foods.  As I was coming up with this week’s menu, I decided pot roast should be one of our dinners.  The interesting thing was we had a pot roast for our dinner at my in-law’s last night.  The difference was how…

  • Monday – (The Imaginative One’s delicious food day.) Tuesday –  Wednesday – Thursday – Happy Fourth of July!!! Friday –  Saturday –

  • Sausage and Sauerkraut Stars of the recipe: Steps: Printable Recipe

  • Crockpot Pizza Stars of the recipe: Steps: Printable Recipe

  • I had another cooking blog. I’m going to transfer some of the posts from there. This is an easy meal to put into the crock pot. It made more than enough food for my family of four that I put half of it in the freezer for another meal.:)  Beanie Weenies Stars of the recipe:…