Jshep

I agree. I made chicken stock in mine the other day. I bought some of those rotesserie chickens marked down.Took them home and deboned them. Then put the bones, skin etc. along with some canned chicken broth and water in my crock pot and let it go on low for the day. Wonderful.

Judy

DianD

Crock pots are great for summer cooking! Almost no ambient heat, so the house stays cooler. (109 here yesterday!) The best part is that an average-sized crock pot only uses... wait for it!...ONLY 4 cents an hour to operate!!!! Yeah! More money for Air Conditioning!!!

ThayerRags

Back in 2005, my wife and I were repairing and repainting the inside of our house prior to moving back into it. We were “camping out” in the house while we were working on it, and we had only a small crockpot with us to cook with. I went across the street to the supermarket and bought a whole chicken, two potatoes, and two Jalapeno peppers. Sliced the peppers and potatoes in half length-wise and put them in the crockpot with the chicken and a little salt & pepper on low for most of the day.

That evening, the chicken came off of the bone with a fork. The potatoes soaked up most of the “hot” from the peppers, so you could control how much hot spice you got with each bite by the size portion of potato, and the chicken itself had only a hint of the Jalapeno taste. I called my simple spicy chicken dish “Pollo de Pobre”, because (at that time, at least) it was a very inexpensive and easy meal. We’ve fixed it several times since then, and added another vegetable side dish at times.

CD in Oklahoma

New Quilter

(Do you use your slow cooker in the summer time? ) (me laughing)...I try not to even use the whole kitchen in the summer time...lol...
8-) 8-) 8-) Naomi

dixiechunk

Yes in deed I do. As a matter of fact I have twice cooked pork BBQ cooking right now and my house smells yummy.

LindaaJR

MMMM that sounds wonderful. Will have to give it a try for sure. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Linda

emt2004

July 4th coming up, going to make pulled pork, meatballs and sausage. roast beef in crockpots. So much easier. Will have hotdogs and hamburgers for the kids. Love my crockpots !!!!!!!!Michele

Jshep

I have my own private office at work and in the winter time I take my crockpot to work with small amount of soup, chili or whatever I have and hook it up in the morning and by lunchtime I have a hot meal.

Judy

Maggiemay

I wrote out how I do it on pg 2 of this thread (I think pg 2, I'm on my phone )- very easy & good!

swcrazzy

This cake sounds so gooooooooooood. I think I will get the items and make it for my birthday next week. At least then I know I will have a cake. lol Beth in Co