Crock pot ideas/Recipie

[crazycanuck]

I ventured to Myer this afternoon & picked up a slow cooker/crock pot thing plus a mini waffle maker

I look forward to using both & will keep an eye on this thread. I'd like to make my dear even happier with coolio new dishes

[badger]

I'm going to resurrect this thread because I need to use my crock pot more.

I'm not a big soup person, and there's only so much beans I can eat so I really like tulip's use of the crock pot to make lasagne. I never thought of it, and considering they sell no-cook noodles now, it's so brilliantly simple.

Someone way back put a recipe with peanut butter. I recently made a pumpkin stew with peanut butter and it was so delish! I used all kinds of mix-n-match vegetables in the fridge along with left over summer squash, water with some bouillon, a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter, couple tablespoons of tomato paste and voila, a few hours later a lovely stew. At least it's thick so it doesn't feel like a soup to me.

Oh, and I'm also baking up a storm lately with bread, and made some nice buns.

Anyone here ever make bread without yeast, as in culture it with wild yeast from the air? Takes a while to do (a couple weeks?)

[tulip]

You can use regular noodles. No need to pay extra for no-cook noodles. In fact, you can use regular noodles, uncooked, for regular oven-baked lasagne, too.

The only thing that I have found is that if I leave my crockpot on high for the whole time, it gets a little burned on the bottom. I haven't made it in a while, but next time I will start it on high for 3 hours and then set it to low for the final 3 hours (or however long it takes, I go by how bubbly it gets).

[WindingRoad]

Tulip I'm going to try that out tomorrow. Is there any trick to getting hard noodles to fit in a round crockpot?

[skhill]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm trying out a new use for my crockpot. It's really, really cold today, and my house has a vintage heating system. Even though it was under 50 F in my kitchen this morning, I'm out of bread and it's time to make some more. So I've turned to the crockpot. There's a couple inches of water in the bottom, then the bowl with my bread dough (sourdough, btw) perched on top, with the temperature turned to "warm." It's rising, slowly, but rising nonetheless....

[tulip]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm trying out a new use for my crockpot. It's really, really cold today, and my house has a vintage heating system. Even though it was under 50 F in my kitchen this morning, I'm out of bread and it's time to make some more. So I've turned to the crockpot. There's a couple inches of water in the bottom, then the bowl with my bread dough (sourdough, btw) perched on top, with the temperature turned to "warm." It's rising, slowly, but rising nonetheless....

That is a great idea. When it's really cold, I usually have my woodstove burning and I tuck my bread dough behind it to rise (but not too close or it will just bake).

[nscrbug]

Ooohhhhh...I LOVE crockpot lasagna!!! It comes out great everytime! I will have to make some soon. Last weekend, I made a great turkey chili in the crockpot. I've been using a lot of recipes from allrecipes.com. I like that all the recipes have tons of reviews and tips on using substitute ingredients or adding ingredients to enhance the dish even more. I like the site so much, that I got on their mailing list and get a new dish emailed to me everyday. The ones that I'm interested in trying, I add to my "recipe box" on the site.

[tangentgirl]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm trying out a new use for my crockpot. It's really, really cold today, and my house has a vintage heating system. Even though it was under 50 F in my kitchen this morning, I'm out of bread and it's time to make some more. So I've turned to the crockpot. There's a couple inches of water in the bottom, then the bowl with my bread dough (sourdough, btw) perched on top, with the temperature turned to "warm." It's rising, slowly, but rising nonetheless....

How did this work?

[skhill]

How did this work?

It worked! The risen dough ended up quite wet, and forming it into a loaf was a bit of a pain. But the flavor and texture are good, and it did rise.

Should have expected the dough to pick up some moisture from the warm water, and made it dryer to begin with. Next time...

[tulip]

Tulip I'm going to try that out tomorrow. Is there any trick to getting hard noodles to fit in a round crockpot?

You just have to break them to make them fit. I usually overlap them. I hope it works out for you! Around here it's a very good day for a hearty, hot meal of lasagne.