This poor university student has been blessed with a used 80s crockpot in all of its leaf-printed glory.
So far I've made barbecue chicken (oh. my. god.) and macaroni and cheese. It was incredible.
No price/cooking limitations; creativity and deliciousness is the only requirement here.
I do this, except I've never added apple cider vinegar. I'm going to add some next time.
hey goo I crock up all the time. Sitting in my fridge is a crockpot full of lamb stew - I got some very cheap bones covered in meat, added water, barley, potatos, celery, carrots, herbs, tomato sauce, and just let it cook on high for about 5 hours then on low for another 5. I added frozen peas and corn and just stirred them in after it was done. You might need to add more water if it gets too thick. Put it on before 10:00 a.m. Eat at 5 or 6!
I was blessed with a crockpot over Christmas too! Today I am going to make chicken and dumplings. I generally just throw shit in the crockpot and don't worry too much about recipes. If I am trying to do something specific I do look at a few for examples. I have a few pounds of chicken breast, I will throw that in whole. I am going to add two cans of cream of chicken soup, 3-4 chopped carrots, 1 chopped onion. Probably not potatoes because dumplings. I think I am going to be lazy and buy a can of dumplings from the store and just chop those into half-pieces and drop them in. I am preparing for a very lazy Sunday.
Here is a really great page that I just found that might help you (and me, too)! These are freezer/crockpot dump recipes, where you just dump everything into the crockpot at once and let it cook. So the idea is you can prepare and freeze the ingredients all together ahead of time, and then have meals for days!
Is #microwave recipes still a thing on Hubski? Back in the day NotPhil used to post some. Interesting point of fact, the largest referring link to Hubski of all time is a BuzzFeed mention of a Notphil egg frittata recipe he posted to Hubski. Not a day goes by when that isn't linked at least once. Anyways, I only mention the microwave recipes because if you are cooking in a crockpot due to space, most people will also have a microwave
Hey, thanks for the link! Currently I only use the microwave that came with my apartment for heating up frozen foods and speedy oatmeal cooking. It doesn't look super active, but I'll have to give a few that are there a shot, especially that frittata. All I know is chocolate cake in a mug.
I now use a pressure cooker instead of a slow cooker most of the time because I'm not down with the waiting but the process is largely the same. Actually, that page has some pretty good slow cooker stuff. ADDED BONUS OFF-TRACK RECIPE - 1 bottle Manieschewitz, preferably loganberry or blackberry - 1 random handful of spices, usually a cinnamon stick, 3-4 allspice berries, some ginger and a couple cloves - 1 slow cooker on low Put that sucka on about 10am. About 1pm, when your in-laws are really getting on your nerves, grab a cup of mulled wine, which is what you just made. Et viola. In-laws are suddenly a lot more tolerable.
I have seen excellent things of pressure cookers. But they also cost money... Though the post you linked has more kitchen wares than I currently own (i.e. knives and pots), I'll stash it into my recipe box for a rainy day! Just one question - what is Manieschewitz? I have heard good things about mulled wine, didn't realize it was something made.
At least one good knife is a must. I have about ten and usually just use the ten inch chefs knife. It is the difference between chopping down a tree with a sharp axe as opposed to a dull sledgehammer. Makes things much more enjoyable and much quicker. Wusthof or Henkels are good and can be picked up cheap on eBay. As far as pots, I have some super expensive copper pots and pans that are absolutely amazing. My most used cooking vessel though is a cast iron skillet that I found covered in rust in my grandmother's barn. Cast iron is really cheap, lasts forever and is awesome to cook with. eBay is not too good for them though.
As I said, anything that can be made in a pressure cooker can be made in a slow cooker. The opposite is not true - chicken en mole in a pressure cooker is a disaster. I slow-cooked my carne until I got the pressure cooker. Knives and pots are cheap. Particularly if you aren't picky, and particularly if you buy them second-hand. I bought 3 Wusthof and a pair of scissors just a couple years ago for my mother-in-law and I think I spent ~$120. That's for good knives. Cheap shitty knives are practically free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_wine It's basically a redneck approach to gluhwein.
We not only thought that was the only Manischewitz, but we believed it was the only wine. One year, my brother brought an alternate wine to Passover and it seemed like a sacrilege. Now there's 10 different bottles of 10 different wines...but my mother still drinks only Manischewitz.what is Manischewitz?
Loganberry? Blackberry? Ontario has a very limited buy list - and I have never seen those exotic Manischewitzes here. The grape wine is only about $6 a bottle though and awful, of course. But we never knew. Shabbat and Passover involved only grape Manischewitz.
The others are just as cheap and almost as terrible. The whole point is to heat them up and add spices to them, since most mulled wine involves a crapton of sugar anyway, you're saving a step. My wife, back when we were just friends, made amazing mulled wine. Me and a subsequent string of girlfriends attempted to duplicate it (we'd fallen out of touch by edict of a particularly nasty ex) but failed miserably; I dated one girl who tried merlot. Mulled wine at Christmas was one of the truly great things about getting back in touch, and now we've been married like six years.