Cooking Crock pot crazy

[karliebug]

These are great recipes. Here is a dessert one.

1 box yellow cake mix
1 can fruit pie filling (I like cherry the best)
1 stick butter or margerine
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or almonds

Place pie filling in bottom of crock pot (spray it with pam first). sprinkle dry cake mix over top. chop up butter and put on top. sprinkle with nuts. cook on high 2-3 hours. Yummy with ice cream!


Hot Fudge Cake

1 box family size brownie mix
1 cup chocolate syrup
1 cup hot water

Spray crockpot with pam. Make brownie mix as directed on box and put the batter in the crockpot. Mix water and syrup together and pour on top. Cook for 2-3 hours on high. Serve with ice cream.

 

[princessesrule]

Thanks for the great ideas!

 

[suz72]

Super Easy Ham BBQ's (doesn't sound good, but it is)

3 to 4 lbs chipped ham (yes, I'm from Pittsburgh )

Equal parts of ketchup (yes, it's definitely Heinz ) and cola of your choice... I use enough of both to coat the ham well.

Few tablespoons of minced dried onions

Cook on high for a few hours or on low for a little longer.

Serve on your favorite sandwich bun.

If I don't have "chipped ham" can I still do this with some ham from the grocery store. Would this be a ham roast??

thanks

 

[grammynelliebelle]

I've used my crockpot for years, but never put frozen meat in it. Did so yesterday with frozen chicken breasts and was very happy with the results. Added spices, and no fluid and it made the most delicious broth. When chicken was done I removed from pot and added a box of sesoned coscous and some frozen green beans. So easy and we have left overs for two more meals. Grammy

 

[DebMcDonald]

add a bottle of beer and enough water to cover... cook on low for 10+ hrs. You can put the potatoes and carrots in maybe 1/2way through, and the cabbage the last 30 min...

be sure to use the spice pack...it will be a bit bland without it. It will be kind of salty, though, but what do you expect out of corned beef...lol

If you can't find the one with the spice pack this will also work. A tablespoon of peppercorns, two bay leaves and some ground mustard.

 

[cryssi]

If you can't find the one with the spice pack this will also work. A tablespoon of peppercorns, two bay leaves and some ground mustard.

good to know!

 

[paigeandmorgansmom]

great ideas...can't wait to try some

 

[hitchedpumpkin]

Here's a recipe that was rated one of the best of the year in our paper's food section. It's a little rich and certainly not healthy, but delicious. DH likes me to double all ingredients except the chicken so there's more sauce.

Creamy Italian Chicken

2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
4 oz. of and 8 oz. tub of cream cheese and chives
1 (10 3/4 oz.) can golden cream of mushroom soup
1 (0.7 oz.) pkg. Italian dressing mix (this is the dry mix)
1/2 cup water or white wine
Angel hair pasta

Cut chicken breasts into strips and put chicken strips into slow cooker.
In a separate bowl, mix melted butter or margarine, cream cheese soup and Italian dressing mix together.
Pour mixture over chicken strips and add in white wine or water.
Cook on LOW for 6-8 hours.
Serve over cooked angel hair pasta.

Some notes: I season my chicken a little with garlic powder, salt and pepper. I've also put the chicken in frozen and it comes out fine. This recipe will taste good with water in place of the wine, but it's so much better with the wine.
I also cut my chicken into small chunks instead of strips. Sometimes I just do this with a spoon once the chicken has cooked.
We always serve this with garlic bread.

I just mixed this all up and turned the crock pot on to HIGH since it is already almost 2 in the afternoon and we usually eat around 6. Wish me luck since I don't always have the best success when I don't follow a receipe to a T! I hope this turns out as great as everyone says because I am hungry!!

 

[hitchedpumpkin]

I have to admit I had my doubts with some of the ingredients for this receipe (Golden Mushroom Soup, Cream Cheese with Chives??) but WOW was this good! The sauce was rich and creamy - kinda like an alfedo sauce but much more flavor. Cooking on HIGH for 4 hours turned out not to be a problem. I will definately make this one again. Thanks for posting this delicious receipe.

 

[momrek06]

OKAY DISer's I am new to using a Crock Pot...one question...when a recipe calls for SOUP of any kind at all...here goes the dumb ? from moi...do I ADD the one can of WATER as well to the crock pot??? You know like if you were to make the soup on the stove you would put the soup in and add one can of water...sorry I am confused as I look at many recipes it states to add one can of (whatever) soup but does that mean the water too???

TIA! :

 

[cryssi]

OKAY DISer's I am new to using a Crock Pot...one question...when a recipe calls for SOUP of any kind at all...here goes the dumb ? from moi...do I ADD the one can of WATER as well to the crock pot??? You know like if you were to make the soup on the stove you would put the soup in and add one can of water...sorry I am confused as I look at many recipes it states to add one can of (whatever) soup but does that mean the water too???

TIA! :

LOL no, just the soup! The recipe may call for some other liquid, but according to the crock pot instructions, foods cooked in the crock require less liquid b/c there is less evaporation...hth!

 

[momrek06]

LOL no, just the soup! The recipe may call for some other liquid, but according to the crock pot instructions, foods cooked in the crock require less liquid b/c there is less evaporation...hth!

Ahhh...thank you very much!!! :

 

[dbogen]

I just made the creamy italian chicken and boy was it good. It is definately one that I will keep. I made it with boneless thigh meat (it was on sale) it was still jummy. And fork tender.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

This isn't my invention, got it off another (non Disney) board.

In the crock pot put 2 can's of black beans that you have drained and rinsed. Add to that 2 cans of corn with their liquid. Put in some chicken breast cut into pieces. I used almost 2 lbs of chicken. Add 2 jars of salsa. A bit of salt and pepper. Stir and cook on low for 7 or 8 hours.

I will make it again -- it was really yummy.

But here is the complication:

My husband came home in the middle of the day and told me (I wasn't home) that it looked good but there was a lot of liquid. I had my daughter add 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice at 5pm. When I got home at 5:45 the rice was not fully cooked but it was much thicker. I added a bit of water and left it cooking. When we ate it it was really thick but yummy. The next time I make it I will make rice separately and add it a little while before serving.

You can cut the recipe in half -- that's the way I got the recipe but I doubled it since I had a big pack of chicken breast.

It was so easy and low in fat too.

 

[123SA]

I want to try crock pot cooking. For a family of 5 -- 2A, 3C under 10, what size crock pot should I get? I bought a 4qrt one on black Friday -- is that good?

 

[piratesmate]

What shape is it? Round or oval? My first couple were pre-oval days and I always felt they weren't large enough. Meaning I had difficulty getting a roast in if it was still frozen sometimes and a whole chicken was a challenge to get in. I think they were both 3.5 qt. Just changing the shape to oval would have helped a LOT and probably would have been sufficient size-wise for us - 2A & 2C.

I use mine quite often & was really excited to get a 6qt oval several years ago. Now there is sufficient space to do a roast with plenty of potatoes & carrots - even for company if it was only a couple people extra.

If you got yours at a great price, I'd say just go ahead & use it knowing that you may end up wanting a larger one in a year or so. But if you exchange it now and end up not liking to use it (I know people who don't - it's foreign to me but ) then it would be wasted. I kept my round one & for holidays will use both at times.

 

[123SA]

It is an oval, I got it for $16. I think I'll check this week's flyers for the next size up.

 

[lukenick1]

Just wanted to say that I made the pork roast with whole berry cranberry sauce, br. sugar and mustard i got on here and it was Fab!!!!!
I'm now making pot roast with onion soup mix and cranberry sauce for tonight.
Hope it turns out as well as the first! Keep them coming............

 

[aepecoraro]

could someone post the famous dis meatballs. I cant seem to find it.

 

[Syrreal]

So I made the chicken everyone has been talking about up there. WOW! It was really tasty! It's definitely something that I will make again.
Thanks so much for the recipe