Slow Cooker Peach Cobbler Peach cobbler is a summertime treat that can be made fuss-free in the slow cooker! Who doesn’t love a fruit cobbler, especially one made with peaches? But running the oven during stifling summer heat to make one often puts an end to the idea. Serve this up with a scoop…
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Slow Cooker Cherry Jam
Slow Cooker Cherry Jam This easy peasy cherry jam cooks to perfection in your slow cooker! Cherries have been on sale here for a couple of weeks at ridiculously low prices. Like nothing you buy in the store! I took advantage of these sales ($1.99 and $1.88 per pound) because I love cherries but…
Slow Cooker Rustic Meat Spaghetti Sauce
Slow Cooker Rustic Meat Spaghetti Sauce A truly hearty and rib-sticking spaghetti sauce packed with flavor and your slow cooker does all the work! It’s been years since I made my own spaghetti sauce from scratch. I got very used to the convenience of the jar stuff–which really tastes very good nowadays. I was cleaning…
Crock Pot Cheesy Taters & Sausage
Crock Pot Cheesy Taters & Sausage Four ingredients is all it takes to make this cheesy and easy tater tot and smoked sausage dinner! This is a hack of my recipe for Cheesy Bacon Chicken & Taters. I always thought a re-work of that would taste super with kielbasa and tater tots taking the place…
Slow Cooker Pork Chop Stroganoff
Slow Cooker Pork Chop Stroganoff These savory stroganoff-style pork chops are a real family pleaser. Easy too! I think I love pork chops about as much as I do chicken! They had a great sale at a local store a couple of weeks ago so I have a freezer full of them. Mushrooms were on…
Slow Cooker Fruited Short Ribs
Slow Cooker Fruited Short Ribs Fall-off-the-bone tender short ribs infused with orange and cherry flavors right in your slow cooker! Since I’m always getting short ribs reduced because they don’t seem to sell well at my local store, I’m always trying to invent new ways to make them. Especially in the crock pot. The last…
German Potato Salad
German Potato Salad Here’s another German deli staple–potato salad with a warm bacon-flavored vinaigrette. May be made in the slow cooker too! Unlike the typical American-style potato salads, the German variety doesn’t use any mayonnaise nor is it generally served chilled–typically, it’s served warm. I consider this more of a pickled potato than potato salad,…
Slow Cooker Chicken & Vegetables
Slow Cooker Chicken & Vegetables A complete and thoroughly delicious ranch-flavored chicken and veggies all from your crock pot. This post departs from my usual image-filled posts–reason being my sister is visiting and we’ve been spending time catching up. So I just grabbed my iPad instead of my regular more sophisticated camera, and snapped this…
Slow Cooker Sichuan Beef & Carrots
Slow Cooker Sichuan Beef & Carrots This spicy Sichuan dish is usually done stir fry, but here is a version that uses your slow cooker. May not be authentic, but it tastes marvelous! This all started with leftover carrots from St. Patrick’s Day and a nice piece of reduced chuck roast! I wanted to do…
Tropical Ambrosia Dump Cake
Tropical Ambrosia Dump Cake Fruity dump cake made in the slow cooker that is reminiscent of ambrosia! There’s not too many people who don’t enjoy ambrosia–and a dessert so easy, it practically makes itself! My store had cake mixes on sale buy-one-get-one and instead of the usual yellow cake I buy for many purposes, I…