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.