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dem in texas

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12. Use my slow cooker 2 or 3 times a week....but
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 02:24 AM
Oct 2016

I use my old crock pot all the time, but mostly for starters for a recipe that I will finish on the stove. It is great for cooking dry beans, can eat as cooked in the crockpot, or use the cooked beans for another dish. Cook pinto beans, eat them, use them to make refried beans. Split peas, navy beans, lentils, cook in the crock pot, then finish off on the stove to make soup.

Cook a cut of meat or chicken in the crockpot, save the broth. Endless possibilities. Cooked pork, great for fried rice, canitas, tamales or posole. Chicken possibilities are endless, chicken salad, chicken noodle soup, chicken tacos, sour cream chicken enchiladas, Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie (I made this today). Beef can made into hot or cold sandwiches, vegetable soup, hash, Mexican meat salad, tacos, it goes on and on. About the only dish I like cooked in the crockpot, start to finish is smothered pork chops. I tried the Mississippi pot roast and it was way to salty for me.

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