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[diannakris]

 So, we joined our local beach club and my days have been spent in the sun lately. Been using my crock pot lots but I"m getting bored. Any ideas out there?? Simple is good...chicken, beef, pork, shrimp...all good too.
Come on girls! You know that we need to spend LESS time in the kitchen this time of year!

IDEAS??

[FairyMouseMom]

 Hey, I just bought a new cookbook for this very "purpose."

One easy thing...if you like Italian sausage.....just put the sausages in your crock pot...and add whatever spaghetti sauce you like to use....cook it on low....and you could eat it with a fork and knife.....or add it on a sausage roll and eat it that way.  It really is yummy and there's nothing to it!!!!!!

[diannakris]

 Just the regular Italian sausage links or patties? The ones that aren't already precooked?

[Flapdoodle]

 This is another EASY recipe and it ROCKS for sandwiches!!

allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pepperoncini-Beef/Detail.aspx

[SBcrazee]

This blog is like the pioneer woman's but all crockpot recipes. Check it out...
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

[TheFiberLady]

 buy some roast beef lunch meat from the deli, 2 pkts of us jus sauce and add the water and cook on low while you are at the beach.. serve on hoagie buns, yummy yummy and it's fast and easy.  cook some onions and green peppers and add swill cheese to it and you got yourself a philly steak sammich.

[FairyMouseMom]

 The sausages that are NOT cooked yet......those kinds....you can buy usually mild or hot ones....depending on what you like.

Also....you could just make Italian Beef sandwiches.....  I just bought the meat at our deli and you get the au jus with it there.  I put it in the crock pot on low.....get some Italian bread (or even French bread)...and cut the loaf into whatever size pieces you want.  You could even add sliced green peppers in there, too, so they would cook right along with you warming up the meat.

[Queen Mum]

 Brown onions with hamburg, put in some mushroom soup (add fresh or canned mushrooms if you like) 1/2 can of water, worchestire sauce, pepper and simmer.   Then add 1 can of instant rice - or serve over rice or noodles

Cut up porkchops and simmer until soft.  Add bbq sauce and warm.  (I've used left over roast pork) serve on buns for bbq pork sandwiches.   Left over beef works too.

[Art_Teacher]

 Don't forget to check the Share A Recipe forum here...I think there are some crockpot recipes there.  This one is my fave.  DH says it tastes like something you would get at a gourmet restaurant!

4 chicken breasts
1/4 cup butter or margarine (1/2 stick)
1 packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing mix

Place the chicken breasts (I usually have them frozen) in your Pam-sprayed crockpot, with the butter (cut up in pieces) and the dressing mix on top.  Cook on Low all day (at least 6 hours).  Half an hour before you want to eat:

Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and cover to keep warm.  Turn crockpot on high and add in the following:

1 can mushroom soup
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese (I use the low fat...you can't taste the difference)
1/4 cup dry white wine (I usually just use the cooking wine you find with the vinegars and oils in the grocery, but you can use good wine if you want to drink some with your meal.)

Stir all the ingredients together until the cream cheese melts.  Add the chicken back in and simmer for about 10 minutes.  Serve over rice or noodles.  Yummy!

[AmyTeets]

 Check out gooseberrypatch.com.  GREAT , simple recipes!

[deerewife]

 I love that last recipe, but dh doesn't.  Maybe cause mine didn't have the white wine??

I've got some good ones, but will have to post later.

Jenna

[diannakris]

 You girls are awesome ! Thank you! I'm printing out all your recipes and ideas now and prepping my grocery list for the week.
Keep em coming though!

[scrapaholic]

 chili is a good one in the crock pot.

[Wendy-Gale]

 I happened to be at moms the other day and she had rachel ray on and she had a lady on that has a blog or web site with 365 different croc recipies one for each day of the year...let me see what I can find

[Wendy-Gale]

 crockpot365.blogspot.com/

[SBcrazee]

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Yup....that's the one I posted too......plenty of recipes.

[Wendy-Gale]

 sorry I just missed that I guess lol

[sherelm]

 buy some roast beef lunch meat from the deli, 2 pkts of us jus sauce and add the water and cook on low while you are at the beach.. serve on hoagie buns, yummy yummy and it's fast and easy.  cook some onions and green peppers and add swill cheese to it and you got yourself a philly steak sammich.

Ok. Now you are in my yummy neck of the woods. But what the rest of the country (and world) doesn't know is Philly cheese steak sandwiches are made with Cheese Whiz or Velveeta. It's not authentic if you don't use that!

[MacSarah]

 Don't forget to check the Share A Recipe forum here...I think there are some crockpot recipes there.  This one is my fave.  DH says it tastes like something you would get at a gourmet restaurant!

4 chicken breasts
1/4 cup butter or margarine (1/2 stick)
1 packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing mix

Place the chicken breasts (I usually have them frozen) in your Pam-sprayed crockpot, with the butter (cut up in pieces) and the dressing mix on top.  Cook on Low all day (at least 6 hours).  Half an hour before you want to eat:

Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and cover to keep warm.  Turn crockpot on high and add in the following:

1 can mushroom soup
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese (I use the low fat...you can't taste the difference)
1/4 cup dry white wine (I usually just use the cooking wine you find with the vinegars and oils in the grocery, but you can use good wine if you want to drink some with your meal.)

Stir all the ingredients together until the cream cheese melts.  Add the chicken back in and simmer for about 10 minutes.  Serve over rice or noodles.  Yummy!

Learning that chicken breasts can be cooked from frozen in the crock pot was a total game changer for me.  I was a little scared at first.
 

[Art_Teacher]

 Don't forget to check the Share A Recipe forum here...I think there are some crockpot recipes there.  This one is my fave.  DH says it tastes like something you would get at a gourmet restaurant!

4 chicken breasts
1/4 cup butter or margarine (1/2 stick)
1 packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing mix

Place the chicken breasts (I usually have them frozen) in your Pam-sprayed crockpot, with the butter (cut up in pieces) and the dressing mix on top.  Cook on Low all day (at least 6 hours).  Half an hour before you want to eat:

Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and cover to keep warm.  Turn crockpot on high and add in the following:

1 can mushroom soup
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese (I use the low fat...you can't taste the difference)
1/4 cup dry white wine (I usually just use the cooking wine you find with the vinegars and oils in the grocery, but you can use good wine if you want to drink some with your meal.)

Stir all the ingredients together until the cream cheese melts.  Add the chicken back in and simmer for about 10 minutes.  Serve over rice or noodles.  Yummy!

Learning that chicken breasts can be cooked from frozen in the crock pot was a total game changer for me.  I was a little scared at first.
  

Yeah, people will say you shouldn’t, but if you have a clean crockpot and take them directly from the freezer, I have never had any issues whatsoever!  They get hot enough in newer crockpots to kill whatever.