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,…
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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…
Slow Cooker Chopped Steak with Onion Mushroom Gravy
Slow Cooker Chopped Steak with Onion Mushroom Gravy An excellent weekday ground beef dinner reminiscent of salisbury steak, but much easier. This was one of my late husband’s favorites! I used to make this stovetop all the time, but decided to give it a go in the slow cooker. I had my doubts about the…
Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Country-Style Pork Ribs
Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Country-Style Pork Ribs Tender and inexpensive pork ribs cook to succulent perfection in a sweet yet tangy sauce right in your slow cooker. One of the most requested recipes on my Facebook crock pot recipe group is for brown sugar chicken. Every recipe I’d seen for this looked absolutely scrumptious. Most…
Slow Cooker Cheesy Bacon Chicken and Taters
Slow Cooker Cheesy Bacon Chicken & Taters Delicious layers of chicken, bacon, cheese and potatoes cook to perfection in the slow cooker! The original recipe for this came my way from Megan who is a member of my crock pot group on Facebook. I liked the idea of this immediately because I adore chicken and all…
Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler
Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler Easy-to-make cherry cobbler uses convenience ingredients and cooks to perfection in your slow cooker. Fruit cobblers were a hot topic of discussion on my crock pot recipe group a week or so ago. Someone mentioned this recipe and I decided to make it as I had all the ingredients. Easy-to-make dessert…
Slow Cooker Lemon Bars
Slow Cooker Lemon Bars No one will believe these luscious lemon bars came out of your slow cooker! Easy and delicious! Lemon–I just love the flavor! My favorite bar cookie is lemon squares, but it seems when I want them, I lack one vital ingredient–the lemons! I’ve gotten more into using my slow cookers for…
Slow Cooker Cream & Ale Short Ribs
Slow Cooker Cream & Ale Short Ribs These tender juicy beef short ribs and savory creamy ale sauce cooks easily in your slow cooker. This is a perfect mid-winter dinner! I love cooking with beers and ales especially with beef. The flavor compliments it so nicely and there’s something so “English Pub” about it. Since…
