Archive for the ‘Crockpot Recipes’ Category

Family Favorite Mexican Crock Pot Recipes

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Sherry Frewerd asked:


There are so many different delicious crock pot recipes available now days. You can feed your family well, and with variety too. If your family loves Mexican dishes, but you’re tired of the same old tacos for dinner, try one of our simple Mexican recipes. Start your meal in the morning and come home to an easy evening of dinner with the family.

These easy Mexican style crock pot recipes are ones your family will love and ask for over and over again. There are three different types: Beef, Chicken and Pasta crock pot recipes listed below. Try one this week and treat your family and yourself to a great meal together.

Mexican Shredded Beef Crock Pot Recipe

4 lbs chuck roast

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 onion, chopped

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

2 - 4 oz cans green chilies, undrained

3/4 cup hot pepper sauce or to taste

Water

Season chuck roast with salt and pepper. Place in crock pot. Mix together remaining ingredients except water, and spoon over meat. Pour water down along the sides of the crock pot until roast is 1/3 covered. Cover it and cook on high 6 hours. Reduce to low 2-4 hours, until meat falls apart. Shred with forks if needed. Sauce can be thickened with a little flour. This is perfect as a burrito dinner or on buns.

Mexican Chicken Stew Crock Pot Recipe

2 lbs skinless boneless chicken ******* cut into 1 inch pieces

4 medium russet potatoes, peeled and cut small

1 -15 oz can mild salsa

1 -4 oz can diced green chilies

1 -1 ΒΌ oz package taco seasoning mix

1 -8 oz can tomato sauce

Mix all ingredients together in a crock pot, cook 8 hours on low. Serve with warm flour tortillas, and corn or add it to the finished stew.

Mexican Macaroni and Cheese Crock Pot Recipe

5 to 6 cups hot cooked macaroni, drained -12 oz dry

2 tbs butter

1 can 12 oz evaporated milk

1 can nacho cheese soup

2 cups shredded Mexican Cheddar cheese

1 - 4 oz can chopped green chilies

1 - 4 oz can sliced black olives

3/4 cup thick medium salsa

salt and pepper to taste

Grease your crock pot lightly. Toss the hot macaroni with butter; add remaining ingredients and mix well. Cover and cook on low for 3 to 4 hours.



Melanie

Fast Food - Dinner Recipes

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Vinood Kumarr asked:


Lots of people are using a crock pot for Easy fast dinner recipes and to do the cooking for them. It’s almost like having a live-in cook! These are also great for quick easy appetizers especially with the hectic pace of life today. A crock pot is a great time saver. Just pop the ingredients in and forget about it, carry on about your business or even sleep while it cooks. There are many delicious and healthy diet recipes that can be started in the morning and left to cook all day in a crock-pot. These are great choices for working families. There are hundreds of healthy and delicious recipes that can be started in the morning that will make Easy fast dinner recipes when you get home. Today everyone is pulling their old crock pots out of storage and utilizing them to more of the full capacity. Lots of family’s don’t have the time anymore as these days it takes 2 working adults to make ends meet. I certainly can’t afford to go out to eat all the time in fact rarely at all. Plus dinning out is not very health for a family.

Obesity has becomes a greater problem every year, and more sugar is being taken in everyday, all because of fast food chains. It seems the solution would be to ban fast food chains; it would save a lot of lives. With Easy fast dinner recipes and quick easy appetizers cooked in your crock pot you wouldn’t even have to give up taste.

McDonald’s abolish their Super size option after the film Super size Me came out but claimed it had nothing to do with that. They attempted to distance itself from this documentary. People tend to overeat because they are not eating nutritionally sound food and advertisements often influence those watching to make bad food choices. There’s time to reverse the bad trend of poor eating habits, generation of people have adopted. We need to STOP replacing home-cooked meals with fast foods. The crock pot has resurfaced and has become a huge time saver for the working class and busy homes alike.

Fast food is usually finger food that can be eaten quickly and without silverware. Fast food often consists of fish and chips, sandwiches, hamburgers, breaded chicken, french fries, chicken nuggets, tacos, pizza or ice cream although many fast food restaurants offer some other less easily consumed choices like chili, mashed potatoes, or salads. Fast food is food served in a restaurant where you can order and receive your food fast.

People tend to overeat because they are not eating nutritionally sound food and advertisements often influence those watching to make bad food choices. There’s time to reverse the bad trend of poor eating habits, generation of people have adopted. We need to STOP replacing home-cooked meals with fast foods. The crock pot has resurfaced and has become a huge time saver for the working class and busy homes alike.

We use to only use our crock pot on holidays. Know it’s found a new home on my counter. So weather its Easy fast dinner recipes or a quick easy appetizers, it’s there ready to go.



Connie