Crock pot ideas/Recipie

[HappyAnika]

This thread makes me want to get out my crock pot and start experimenting . . .

Lisa I was reading your complaints about some of the recipes calling for everything in a can. A couple of years ago DH and I were going on vacation, 10 days camping in various national parks, and we wanted some new ideas for stuff to make for dinner. DH got a book from the library on "camping food", it was from the 1960's and most recipes called for things we'd never even heard of (I'm 30, he's 32), like canned beef Do they even still make that? Bleck. Canned onions?? Needless to say we didn't make any of the recipes.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Everything in the 60's was processed to death. If you read recipes from then, they call for lots of Velveeta, frozen veggies, canned spinach and canned mushrooms (God forbid you would have to slice a few mushrooms!)...canned fried onion sticks, more Velveeta, canned chicken, little canned Vienna Mystery sausages, condensed "cream of What the...?" soup, russian dressing, grape jelly, jello, mashed corn flakes topping, dried onion flakes, mashed potato flakes, garlic POWDER....very few ingredients were fresh for some reason (and I think women are way more busy today than they were then). For those with gourmet taste, there was always Fondue Night (croutons artfully dipped in yet more bubbling hot Velveeta)....

[Deborajen]

Here's an unusual crock pot recipe a friend gave me:

Crock Pot Enchiladas

Brown 2 lbs beef with green chilies (small can - chopped, or a couple of chopped Anaheim chilies) and chopped onion

1 pkg round corn tortillas - Take each tortilla and smother it in Cream of Mushroom soup and layer the bottom of crock pot

Then layer of meat mixture

Then layer of shredded cheese (I use Monterrey Jack and Cheddar - 10 ozs.)

Continue layers finishing with a tortilla

Pour 1 small jar thick and chunky salsa on top

Cook on high 1 hour (or low 3 hours) - (Do not stir!)



Deb

[Brandi]

made two crock pot recipes this week because of this thread.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hey I'm so proud of myself too- today I made some GREAT beans, and I made up the recipe!
Here's what I did:

/////Black beans with eggplant & cilantro/////
Chop one whole onion, 1/2 a red pepper, and some garlic and brown well in a skillet with some olive oil. Put into a 4-6 qt crockpot.
Peel and cut a smallish eggplant into chunks and brown that well in a little olive oil in the skillet too. Put in crockpot.
Add to the crockpot:
3 cans black bleans, drained
1 can crushed tomatoes
2 T molasses
5 T brown sugar
2 T balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
salt/pepper seasoning to taste

Cover and cook on low in slow cooker for about 5 hours. Make some rice to serve on the side. During last minutes of cooking, rinse a big bunch of fresh cilantro, then cut up leafy part with a scissors and stir into beans. Let beans cook 15 more minutes, then serve over or next to rice.

It was really GOOD! I especially liked the eggplant in it.