Long simmering crock pot recipes

[indysteel]

My crock pot has settings where it will turn itself off after 5 hours or 8 hours, either low or high temp settings. It was a totally cheap crock pot, too.

I did a quick search. This one is nicer than mine, but it has the same feature: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Hamilton...e-0000760cc1f0

When you say "turn itself off," do you mean that it goes from hi/low to "warm"? Mine goes to a warming feature when the alloted time or temp is passed/reached, but I've never used that feature for more than a half hour or so. I'm too paranoid about food staying at or above a certain temp to totally trust it.

I like withm's suggestion of cooking overnight though. I might have to try that myself.