The Creative Homemaking Guide to Crock Pot Recipes by Rachel PaxtonABOUT CREATIVE HOMEMAKING: ‘Visi Creative Homemaking for all of yourhomemeking nels. Creative Homemaking offers money- saving household hints, recipes, tips to organize your home, home decerating, crafts, family fin, and ‘much more! For mere downloads, visit Creative Homamalking today. You can viaw these booklets cline, downlcad them to your computer and print them out, download them and include them on your own web site, and/or e-mail them to your friends! Available downloads: muffins, quick breads, zucchini, holiday, crock pot, cake, Tello, casserole, -muechini, make-it-yourself household cleaning products, party garnes and aotivilies for kids, Locking for quids cacy dinner ideas? Recaive cur free weekly newsletter by sending a blank email message to EreeRecipes-subserbe@vehoogroups.com or by visiting our web site: ‘bi vAwwrw creativ ehomernalking com Copyright 1998-2001 Creative Homemaking Allrights reserved, This booklé may be fieely distributed in its original foam. No part ofthis booklet ‘may he reproduced in any marnet without written permission fremn Creative Hemerneking. This booklet was published by Creative Homemaking, P.O. Box 4340, W. Richland, WA 99353, USA. E-tmnil: rachel@ creativ duememnaking. cor.Hamburger & Potato Soup 1/2 1b, hamburger 11g. dove of garic 14 top. pepper 112 tsp. thyme 6 med, potatoes 21g. onions 1 can cream of mushroom soup 112 c. water Cosk beef and garlic in sllet until lightly browned, Stir in pepper and thyme. Peel and slice potatnes and onions. Fut L/2 potatoes and onions into buttered crock pat, Add browned beef and top with remaining fnotatoes and onions Mix cushroom soup with water and spread over ton of contents. Cover. Cook on low for & = 10 hours of on high for 3 to 4 hours Crock Pot Oyster Stew 8c of whole milk 12, bumer 2 pints of fresh oysters 1 U2 189. salt 2 tsp. Worcestershire sence In crack pot heat milk on high for 1 1/2hours In saucepan, melt butter and add oysters with liquid Summer on low until edges of oysters curl, Add seasonings Combine with the hot milk in crock pot and simmer cn low for 2-3 hours, stirring occasionally. Ground Beef & Vegetable Casserole 2 1g. potatoes, diced 2 tn Fmed carrots, sliced 1 can of peas, well drained 3 med, onions 1 1/2 Ibs. ground beef, browned 2 dalks of celery, sliced 1 can of cream of tomato soup 1 soup can water Floce layers of the vegetables in the order given in crocs pot, Season each layer with salt and pepper. Put the Lightly browned ground beef on top of the celery. Mixx the tomato soup with the weter and pour over thelayers. Cover and set on low for 6 to & hows, stirring occasionally. Serves 4 ta 5 Crek Pot Recipes Page -3- http fara crestivehomemalcing comPizza Potatoes 8 med. potatoes 21g. onions 11h, smoked sausage 1 tap, salt 2 Boz) cans pizza sauce Peel potatoes and cutin half place in crock pot. Cut smoked sausage into preces andl place on top of potatoes. Chop onion. Pour pizza sauce on top, cock in crock pot until potatces are tencler Chicken Noodle Soup 3.1/2 Ih broilesiiryer chicken, cut up and slcinaed 2 med, carrots, peeled and chopped 112 c. onion, chopped 2 celery stals, chopped 21/2 tap. ealt 2 tap. deied parsley flakes 314 tap. dried mayjorom leaves 112 tp. died basl leaves 114 tsp. poultry seasoning 14 tsp pepper 1 bay leaf 8c water 21/2 c, ofmedium egg noodles, uncooked Place first 4 ingredients in crock pot in order listed. Combine salt and next 6 ingredients: sprinkle over vegetables. Add o caps water, cover and cook on low setting § to 10 hours, Remove chicken and bay leaf. add remaining 2 cups water. Stir in noodles and cook, covered, on high seting 20 minutes ‘Meanwhile remove bones from chicken and cut chicken into bite size pieces. Add to crock pot, stir to mix. Cook 15 minutes on high setting, covered or until noodles are tender Crek Pot Recipes Page -4- http fara crestivehomemalcing comChuck Wagon Beans 1b, beans any variely, dry 1 ham hock or shanis 11g. chicn, chopped 6c of water 1 tsp. sabs 7 oz green chili salsa (up to 10 oz.) or canned tomato sauce, or stewed toraaties Rinse the beans and remove any foreign matter. Mix all ingredients in the crock pot Cover, sex temperature a low. and forget for at least 10 hours, [f you have only half a day, cook the mistture 5 or ‘more hours on high. Marinated Chicken & Pork 3 Ibs chicken pieces 1 Ib. lean boneless pork cubed Lc dry red wine (or water) 12 tsp. black pepper 3c beef broth 2 doves garlic, crushed 3 tomatoes, chopped 1/2 top. rosemary 1 typ. salt Place chicken pieoss and pork cubes in a large bow. Mist el other ingredierts thoroughly, pour over chicken and park, Allow meat to maincte in sauce for about 2 hows, (You could leave it over night) Transfer chicken, pork and marinade to crock pot. Cook: on low 6-8 hrs os until chicken and pork are thoroughly cooked. Serves 6 Chicken Parisienne 6 med, chicken breasts 112 ¢. dey white wine or verncuth (optiond) 1 can cream of mushroom soup 4 of, mashrooms, sliced 1c sour cream, mixed with 1 c, four Salt and pepper Paprika, Sprinkle chicken breasts lightly with salt, pepper, and parrika Place chicken in crock pot, Mix white wine, soup, and mushrooms until well combined. Pour over chicken, Sprinkle with a litle more paprika, Cover and cock on low for 70 9 hours or on high 3 t0 4 hours Remove chicken and stir in sour cream mixture during last 30 minutes. Serve sauce over chicken with rice cr noadles, Crek Pot Recipes Page -S- http fara crestivehomemalcing comChicken Chow Mein 6 chiceen thighs, drinned 6 cz. maskrooms, sliced 1 cnion, sliced 3 gatlic cloves, minced 112 c. Teriyaki sasce Parsley 3 dashes of Tabasco 2 handfuls of bean sprouts Put everything cxcept the bean sprouts in a crock pot in the morning. Mixx them up and set to low. Should tbe mostly done when you gei back home. Prepare some sice to spoon over. After you start the rice put ‘bean sprouts in the crock pot and trix up. When the tice is dong the chow mein is done Debone chicken and mix back in. Serve over the tice Serves 4 Teriyaki Chicken 3 lg, Gozen chicken breasts, with the rits sill atached (or thighs) 1 cm (16 cz) cf pineapple chunks, partiely drained 4-6 02, of Kikkoman teriyaki sauce If desired you cen ald vegetables (orocedli, etc.) lace chicken breasts in cmck pot, with meat facing out toward coils. Dump in the pinearple, ald teriyaki sance and veggies, cover Conk on low for 6-8 hours, high for 4-6 howrs (these tienes are for frozen. chicken, less for thawed). Serve over rice Easy Chicken ‘Take the skin off four boned chicken breasts place in crock Sprinkle about 1/2 cup fat-free Italian salad. dressing over the chicken, Put lid on crack pot and cook on low setting for 8-9 hours Crek Pot Recipes Page -6- http fara crestivehomemalcing comCajun-Style Buffalo Wings 3 lbs chicken wings 1 boitle Kral spicy BBQ sauce 1 1/2 iso, red cayenne Perper 14 tgp, salt 2 tap, black pepper 112 tsp. gatlic fekes, minced 1 typ, onion flakes, sninced 3 thsp, Worcestershire Sauce 2 thep. jalapeno sauce 1 thsp tahasen sence 1 thep Cajun spice In acrock pat, add chicken, BBQ sance, and all spices. Sir and heat on low for4 hones. Hungarian Cabbage Rolls 1 cabbage 112 Ibs. ground beet 1 cmion, chopped Terice Legg 1 thop. sat 112 top. pepper 1 thsp. paprika 2c sauerkraut 2c, tomate sauce 1/2. water 1c, sour eream Core cabbage and place in lage bow!, Cover cabbage with boiling weter and Let stand five minuies. IE cabbage is very large, repedt this process alter you've stuffed half of the leaves. Combine mea onion, tice, egg, sat, pepper and paprika Drain cab age and remove leaves, cutting off the thick end of the stem. Put about bao tablesoocns of Gilling on aleaf Fold sides in enroll. Place seam side down in alow cooker. Spread sauerkraut cn tap, Add tomato sauce and water Cook on low siz 10 eighthours. Remove rolls blend scur cream with sauce and serve with cabbage rolls Crek Pot Recipes Page -7- http fara crestivehomemalcing comEasy Pork Chops 6-8 pork chops Keichap 1 bell pepres, chore 1 cin, chopped 112 c. water Browm pork chaps ia a skilles. In a crock pot, layer ingredients as follows: 1 pore chop. 1/¢ of onion, 1/6 of bell pepper encugh ketchup to cover with ¢ thin layer, Repeatlayers until all ingredients are used. Pour in ‘water. Cock in crock pot on high for 3 hours. Crock Pot Lasagna 1 box rigatoni, cocked 1/2 Tbs. ground chuck, browned & drained 11g pkg diced pepperoni | green pepper, chopped 2g rkg Mocrwellacheese 21g. cans pizza sauce 1 med. onion, chopped 8 cz mushrooms Green clives, sliced Begin with layer of sauce on battom of crock pot. Str all remaining ingredients together, Place in crock: pat and cook oa low for 5 hours. Polish Cabbage Rolls 1 green cabbage 1 1b, ground beef browned 1/4. uncecked rice Legg 1 ction, srincod 1 carrot, winced 1 tsp. salt 12 tsp. pepper 14 c. cider vinegar 112 c. brown sugar 8 vz, canned tomate seuce Miz ground beef rice, egg. onion, carrot, salt and pepper. Mix together vineger, browm sugar. and tomato sauce, Drop cabbage in boiling water for 5 0 10 minutes, Remove 10 Large leaves. Chop remaining cabbage, Place in hotinm of crack pot. Plare 2 to 4 tablespoons of meat mixture in center of each leaf Roll up and use toothpick to hold, Place stem side down in erock pot. Pour on tomato mixtare. Cover and cook ox low for 8 to 10 hours. Serves 6 to & Crek Pot Recipes Page -8- http fara crestivehomemalcing comMeat Loaf 2 lbs. ground beef 1215. sausege 2 med, onions, finely chopped 1 dove of gatlic, chooped 20m. sal 12 tsp. pepper 1c, sour creat 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 V2 c, bread or cracker crambs 11/2 milk Soak bread or cracker crumbs in anil. Ml aneat, seasonings, and soaked crumbs thoroughly. In a separate howl, mix scur cream and mushroom soup. Make meat mixture into loaf and pour the sour cream-soup mizture over top. Bake in crock pot {11 to 12 hours on low. Crock Pot Pork Chops 6 tn 8 lean pork chops 112. flour 1 thop. sat 1 (10 0:,) can chicken and rice soup 1/2 top. dry mustard 112 top. gaslic powder 2 thep oil Coat pork chops in mizture of flour, salt, dry mustard, end gerlic poveler. Brown in cl in slllet Place browned pork: chops in crack pot. Add can of soup. Cover and coak on low for 6 to & hours or on high for 3-1/2 hours Crek Pot Recipes Page -9- http fara crestivehomemalcing comPorcupine Meatballs 1 U2 ths. lean ground beet 1/2 ¢, raw rice 1/2 c. onion, finely chopped 1/2 c. green pepper, finely chopped 1 egg 1 typ. salt 14 tsp. pepper 1 (0 1/2 oz) can tomato soup 1 can diced tomatoes and liquid In mixing bowl combine ground beef rice. onion, green pepper, egg, salt, and pepper. Mix well to blend. Shape meat mixture into 24 meatballs, ahout 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Place meatballs sn crack pot Pour soup over meatballs Cover and slow cook for 7 ta & hours. Makes 4 to 6 servings Ttolicn Sausage Spaghetti 2 Ibs Italian sausage 48 or. spagheth sauce 1 oz) can tomato paste Green pepper, sliced thin 11g, onten, sliced thin 1 thep, Parmesan cheese 1 typ, parsley flakes 1c water Floce seusage in skillet and cover in water, Simmer 10 minates; crain, Meanwhile, place remaining ingredierts in crock pot. Add drained sousage and cover; cook on low 4 hours. Increase to high; cool 1 hour more. Cut sausage in bite-size dices and serve over cooked spaghetti. Sprinkle with more Parmesen, if desired. Simple Roast Beef 1 beef roast 8 cunces ofmushrooms 2 potatoes 4 carrots Parsley 1 can French oxioa soup ‘Mig ail the ingredients together in the moming cook on lowin the crock por all day, and you've got one tender roast vith gravy too. Crek Pot Recipes Page -1D- http fara crestivehomemalcing comSpanish Rice 1/2 tbs. ground beef, browned and drained 1 med. onion, chopped 1 green pepper, chopped 1 (14 1/2 cz.) can tomatoes 1 (16 02) can tomato sance 314 c. weter 2 tmp. chili powder 2 tap. Worcestershire sance 11/2 i. salt 314 ¢ tice, conrered: save Stir al ingredents tagether. Cover and ccak on low 7s 9 hours (High for 3 hours, then switch ta low for the remaining time). Hungorian Goulesh 2 Ths. round steaks, cut in 1/2-in. cubes 1c onion; chopped 1 garlic dove, mnced 2 thep. flour 1 top. salt 12 top. pepper 1/2 tp. papsika 1/4 top. thyme, dried and crushed 1 (14 1/2 cz.) can tomatoes, 1c, sour cream Nooilles Pat steels cubes, onion, anil gailic in crack pot. Stirin flour and mixx to coat steak cubes. Add ell remaining, ingredients except sour cream. Stir well. Cover and cook on low 8-10 hours. Add sour crzam 30 minutes before serving and stirinthoroughly. Serve over hot buitered noodles Lozy Man's Beef Sandwiches 3 lbs, pot roast meat 1 1g, jar of spaghetti sauce (16 and 24 ox size both work) 1 @ox) ja Ficanie sance Place ingredients in crock pot and cook on high for 6 hours or low for 8 hows. Then take the lid off the pot and stir the meat around until it falls apart. Serve it ladled over toasted Enelish muffins. Crek Pot Recipes Page-I1- http fara crestivehomemalcing comPot Roast 2 to 3 1g. potatoes, sliced 2 t0 3 carrots, sliced 1 w 2 small onions, sliced 1/2 ip. salt 1/4 Wp. pepper 3 t0 4 pound pot roast 112 c. water Add al vegetables, salt, and pepper to the crack pot. Add meat and water. Cock at low for 10-12 hours or high for 5-6 hours Tortilla Stack 11h, ground beef lean 5 chm tortillas, cat into 0 wedges 215 can of undiluted cheddar cheese soup 268 package taco seasoning miz 2 med. tomatoes, chopped 114 ©. sour cream 1 1/3 c. letiuoe, shredded Any other desred toppings Crumble 1/4 of ground beaf into botiom of slow cocker. Top with 1/4 of tortilla wedges. In asmall bow! siz soup and taco mix. Spread 1/4 of soup over tortillas. Sprinkle with /4 of tomatoes. Repect layering until all ingredients are used. Cover ant cook: on low 4-5 hours. Spooa onto individual plates. Top each serving with sour cream, lettace, sto Layered Enchilada Cosserole 1 (14 1/2 oz) can whole tomatoes 1 smal onioa, out into pieces 1 dove of garlis, minced 112 tsp. cayenne 172 tp. salt 1 @ox) can tometo pasie 11, ground beef, browned and drained 8 cz, cheddar cheese, shredded 9 com tamillas To prepare the sauce, place the whole canned scmetoes, the liquid from the tomatoes, the onion, and the garlic in a blender or fod processor. Blend, Pourinto a meciuma savcepan. Add the cayenne, sat, and tomato pase. Bringto a boil, Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, Place 1/5 of the tortillas in the bottom of the crock pat. Spoon over 1/5 nf the ground beef, 1/3 of the sauce and [/3 of the cheddar in layers. Repeat each layer twice more, Cover. Caok on low for 6 to Shouts Yields 6 servings Crek Pot Recipes Page-12- http fara crestivehomemalcing comSweet & Sour Pork 2 1b, cubed pork: 3 thsp. soy sauce 14 c vinegar 1 seal onion. 2 tomatoes, cut in slices 2 tbsp. comstarch, 14 tp. ginger 1/4 ©, brown sugar 2 green peapers: cut into strips In slow conker mix: pork with comstarch, Then mix in remaining ingredients except green pepper and tomatoes Cook on low for 3 hours. Str in green pepper and tomatoes. Canle on high for 10) minutes Serve with nce Smothered Steak 1 1/2 Tbs. round steak, cutia strips 14 tsp. pepper 1 green pepper, sliced 1 (6 0:) can tomatoes 3 thep, soy sauce 1/3 c, flour 1 top, salt 1 lg. cnion, sliced 8 cz, mushrooms 1 pleg, Frozen french style green beans (10 oz) Place stcak strips, flows, sat, and pepper in crock pot, stirring well ta coat sak. Add remaining ingredients. Cover end cook on low 8 hours or high for 4 hours. Serve with rice Crek Pot Recipes Page-13- http fara crestivehomemalcing comShrimp Marinara 1 (16 05) can of tomatocs, cut up 2 thsp. minced parsley 1 dove gatic, sunced 102 tap. dried basil 1 tsp. sal 1/4 wp. pepper 1 typ. dried oregano 1 oz) can toma paste 12 tsp. seasoned salt 1 Ib. cooked shelled shim Grated Patmnesan cheese Cooked spaghett In acrock pat, combine tomstoes with parsley, garlic, basil, salt, pepper, oregano, tomato paste, and seasoned salt. Cover and cook on low for 6 to'7 hours. Turn control to high, stir in shrimp, cover and cool: oa high fr U0 to 15 minutes more, Serve over cooked spaghetti, Top with Parmesan cheese Pot Roast with Sour Cream Gravy 3 lbs. chuck or pot roast 2 thep. flour 1 tp. salt 14 tsp. pepper 1 thop. ol 114 ©. water 1 thop. vinegar Ltp. dill weed 5 cr 6 small potatoes 5 cr 6 carrots 12 tsp. salt 11g. onion, 1 togp, our 1c, sour creatn 1 tsp, dill seed Coat toast with flour, salt, and pepper Brown in oil in skillet Putroast in crock pot, add water and vinegar Sprinkle dill weed over meat, then add potatnes, cetvets, onion, and 1/2 tsp. salt Cook on low for 1ilto 12 hours or high for 6 hours. To make aravy. pour off 3 tbsp. erinoings add flour and heat Measure res of dnppings, add water to make 1 cup. Add to flour misture and hedt for 1 mirmte, stisring constantly ‘Add 1 cup sour cream and dill seed. Heat to boiling Crek Pot Recipes Page-14- http fara crestivehomemalcing comCrock Pot Pizza 1 12 ths. hamburger, browned and drained, 16 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese 1 crion, chopped 1 pkg. diced pepperoni 2/3 box ngaioni acodles, cooked 1 can crean of mustzoom soup 8 oz. mushrooms, sliced 2 jars pizza seuce Altemate layers in crodkpot as follows: hamburger, noodles, cheese. soup, mushrooms onions, sance anc pepperoni, Heat 4 hours on low in crack pot. Swiss Steak 1 round steak, cut into serving-size pieces 1 tsp. oregano 14 tsp. red pepper flakes 14 tsp. pepper 1 (5 0, can) tomate sarce 1 con, sliced Flour meat, bled emairing ingredients, except onion. Put meatin orock pct, top with sliced cnion, pour on sauce, Cover, cook on low 6-8 hour, Crek Pot Recipes Page-15- http fara crestivehomemalcing com