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Crockpot: Pork in Red Sauce

January 10, 2012

After reading through several crockpot cookbooks, and reading the advice from readers to adapt my own recipes for use in the crockpot, I’ve been doing just that and have had several very good crockpot dinners.  This one turned out excellent and had enough sauce left over that I made meatballs, added to the leftover sauce [...]

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Slow Cooking

January 7, 2012

Do you use your slow cooker often?  I wish I did but I don’t.  It seems that almost everything I make in it tastes like it was cooked in the crock pot. I’ve tried using the plastic liners, thinking maybe that would change the taste, but it doesn’t.  With my sewing room outside the house, [...]

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Dinner Report

September 8, 2011

Yum!  I love having dinner at my house!  Tonight we had Hungarian Goulash in the crockpot, served over noodles.  If you remember, that was supposed to have happened the first week we were here and I’ve just now gotten around to fixing it.  We also had cole slaw and mustard greens.  These were some my [...]

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The Crockpot is Found

August 28, 2011

Our instructions to the movers were:  Anything in the garage upstairs or in the garage downstairs or in the pole barn . . that stuff all goes to the rental storage building.  Everything else goes to the house! I had several crockpot meals planned.  The first few days I didn’t see the crockpot but figured [...]

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Pressure Cooker vs. Crockpot

January 3, 2011

Our electric bills are horrendous.  Our house is all electric and we just use a lot of electricity — lots of hot water, we all take two showers a day; the dishwasher runs at least once a day, often twice a day and sometimes three times a day; I have two ovens and many times, [...]

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Crockpot Cooking

August 18, 2010

Do you use a crockpot or slow cooker?  If so, do you like it because the food tastes good or because it’s quick and painless?  I’ve tried lots of recipes and for the most part, I’m just not a big fan of the crockpot.  Maybe it’s because I like to cook . . I really [...]

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