I have a crock pot at school with me and I need good recipes. I’ve done boston butts in it before (they won’t let me bring my smoker…) and am probably going to do 2 more butts tomorrow.
anyone have any good recipes for hearty manly food?
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You can pretty much put anything in a crock pot and it will turn out good! I’ve cooked with crock pots for 20 years…ever since I went to college, and have yet to follow a “recipe”.
I always turn the crock pot on the highest setting and brown both sides of the beef, chicken or pork that I am cooking IN the crock pot before I add broth, 'shrooms, onions, carrots, etc. Also, use beef or chicken broth, cream of mushroom soup (or other cream of…) for added flavor. If you want potatoes, don’t add those until the meat is about 1/2 done or they will get too soft.
Have fun with it…but beware of suitemates/neighbors showing up with plate and fork in hand!
I have had some awsome fish stews come out of experiments with a mixed catch. The first one I had a bluefish, a crab, a mullet, a couple of croaker, a handful of shrimp and added stewed tomatoes, okra, s&p, onions, garlic and let it go for several hours. It was killer. Later I added some rice and it was even better.
RW
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Originally posted by dolphusI have had some awsome fish stews come out of experiments with a mixed catch. The first one I had a bluefish, a crab, a mullet, a couple of croaker, a handful of shrimp and added stewed tomatoes, okra, s&p, onions, garlic and let it go for several hours. It was killer. Later I added some rice and it was even better.
RW
Day’um that sounds good!!!
Chuck roast covered/dusted with i pack italian dressing mix, 1 beer, a couple of casn of potatos and carrots and a finely chopped onion if you want. Cook for about 8 hrs on low.
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Off the Hip - Stews are easy, 15 bean soup, etc…
Crock pots are great for taking even cheap cuts of meat and making them fal off the bone tender…
Cowboy Beans - take five cans of beans, making sure one is the good old fashioned pork 'n beans. Dump into crock pot and add one pound of cooked and drained ground beef (or venison), a chopped onion and about a half bottle of any bbq sace. Cook all day on low. Really economic and feeds an army.
I went back to the college days with my crock pot last night. Chicken and vegetable soup: throw two cans fire roasted tomatoes, 1 can tomato paste, chopped onion, chopped celery, chopped carrots, bag frozen corn, bag frozen lima beans, red potatoes, bay leaf, diced jalapeno, salt, pepper and some chicken stock into the crock pot. Oven bake some fryer pieces seasoned with montreal seasoning, pick the meat and then add it to the crock pot. Cost me 20 bucks and i can eat it for a week.
Layer PorkChops and Saurkraut cook all day
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I forgot you need dessert to go with some of those other main dishes. Try this! I’ll make a couple of these in the old fashioned crock pots that don’t have the lift out centers (telling my age here![:0]) to serve for dessert when we have oyster roasts.
Crockpot Triple Chocolate Mess
1 pkg chocolate cake mix
1 pint sour cream
1 pkg instant chocolate pudding
1 small bag chocolate chips (approx. 6 oz)
3/4 cup oil
4 eggs
1 cup water
Spray crockpot with non-stick spray. Mix all ingredients until smooth, pour into crockpot. Cook on low 6-8 hours. Serve with ice cream (indoors) or whipped cream (outdoors).
I got about 9 lbs of boston butt, cut it up into smaller chunks so it would fit in the crock. Cut up a large sweet onion, and poured in a bottle of hickory bbq sauce with a bottle of mustard. splash in some liquid smoke and worcestershire and BAM! kick it up a notch with some tabasco and it’s rollin for 10 hours.
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bsb98 try it with ribs instead of porkchops… damm good eats either way
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dolphus!
that sounds Awesome! never thought to do a fish stew in crock! may be EASY “bouillabaisse” or a variation of
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OK, I’ll give you the easiest one.
1 whole chicken
Place in crockpot on high.
When dinner time rolls around, you will have the moistest, tenderest chicken that falls off the bone. Don’t even try to take it out whole, just use a fork or tongs to pull out the meat.
Some people are skeptical, but you don’t need to add any water. Of course, your favorite seasoning/rubs will work great and you can always add a few onions, potatos and carrots around the chicken.
Try it and let me know!
sealevelPete
p.s. tastes better if you take out the bag of gizzards first [:I]
Go getya 1 gallon of big peanuts. Wash em GOOD, rinse, repeat 4 times! Put em in the crock pot. Heat up about 1/2 gallon of water with 3/4 cup of sea salt dissolved in it and, maybe, some minced garlic if you feel a bit frisky. Pour this on the peanuts and if there’s any room left, add more water. Put the CP on high. I do this in the garage so’s I don’t pyss off any women folk that may be around (since this is a manly sorta deal). I usually do this at about 7 pm. Early the next morning (6 ish), I check on it, add some more hot water, stir it up a bit. At about 8 am, turn off the CP, unplug it, go do some werk. When you come home, you’ll have some bodacious bald p-nuts!
Chris, I agree with you that the butts come out great in the crock. Try this and it will be even closer to real smoked/pulled pork when its done: Pour your favorite bottled BBQ sauce over the butts and place them on a very hot grill (easier using gas than charcoal) burn the outside fat (blacken), you can even let it catch on fire a little, then place in the crock with your other stuff, only you probaably won’t need the liquid smoke now. My brother came up with this about 15years ago and it really works well. Just don’t be afraid to blacken it–that way you get that smoky flavor. When you pick it after it cools off from the crock cooking, use your own judgment of how much of the black portion to leave. Usually throwing away the fat will take care of everything. Allen Lynch
No limit to CP cooking, I need to quit using water, and use non-stick spray. I am retired, and me and the wife eat all week with beans and veggies for peanuts moneywise. AWESOME stuff, garlic shrimp is my favorite so far, forget recipes, just do it. With the economy like it is, CP cooking is going to come back like crazy. Looking forward to more ideas shared here, the saur kraut combo sounds intriguing, too. Also bacon added in for flavoring only works great.
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For an awesome beef stew try:
Brown 1.5 lbs of cheap stew meat and drain. Put the browned meat in the pot and add 1 cup or so of frozen corn and a cup or so of frozen green beans and a cup of chopped celery and one meduim onion chopped. Add 1 can of chopped stewed tomatoes (I like the garlic seasoned ones) and 1 chopped jalapeno (remove seads to cut down on the heat if needed). Add 1 cup of Bloody Mary mix and top off with water. Cook on low for about 10 hours. Mix up some cornbread fixins and bake it in a cast iron skillet. I add a little sugar to my cornbread. Cornmeal, sugar, baking soda, flour, egg and oil. The sweet cornbread really makes the stew come alive. And the secret ingredient on Bloddy Mary mix really gives the stew and awesome flavor.
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I have even done a lasagna in a crockpot. Spray the cp with nonstick spray and layer with a little extra sauce your favorite cheeses, sausage and UNCOOKED lasagna noodles. Just break the noodles to fit in layers. I was skeptical at first but it really did turn out great. Cook on low 6-8 hours or on high 3-4.
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I’d like to here more information on the garlic shrimp in the crockpot. Sounds awesome!
Zane
Y’all, I did my first boston butt in the crock pot! It was pertty good! I added the butt, seasoned, with 1 can of chicken broth, some water up just past the middle of the butt, added some liquid smoke, put it on high about 8 pm, took it off next morning about 6 am, it was pefect except one thing, there was a LOT of fat in it. So should I trim it next time? Also, I had a bunch of juice in the pot, so maybe I don’t need all that liquid eh?