This is another crock pot meal. I was able to do all of the prep work at night and put the stoneware in the refrigerator over night. In the morning, I put the stoneware into the crock pot base and turned it on before I went to work.
Ingredients
- 1 Beef roast (mine was about 2.5 lbs, 3-4 lbs would probably be ideal)
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 Tbls Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tbls Italian seasoning
- 12oz beer (most kinds should work well)
- 1 14.5oz can of diced tomatoes
Directions
Place the beef roast into the crock pot. Arrange the onion slices all around the beef. Sprinkle the Italian seasoning on top. Next add the Worcestershire sauce, then pour the tomatoes on top, followed by the beer. After adding all of the ingredients, mine looked like this:
Cook on low for 8-10 hours. I did about 10 hours on low with the lid on, then I did another hour and a half on high with the lid off to reduce the amount of liquid. If you use a large piece of beef then you shouldn't need to reduce the liquid.
This was delicious served over rice.
This also works really well on sub rolls.
This soup is delicious. I love to make it when it's cold outside. It's also great if you're sick and want to help clear your sinuses since it's a bit spicy.
Ingredients
- 2-3 cooked chicken breasts, diced (not shown)
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 Tbls minced garlic
- 1 Tbls oil
- 2 jalapeños, diced
- 4 cups chicken broth or stock (approx. two 14oz cans)
- 1 15.25oz can of corn
- 1 14.5oz can of diced tomatoes
- 1 10.75oz can condensed tomato soup
- 1 Tbls cumin
- 1 Tbls chili powder
- 1 Tbls fresh cilantro, diced
Directions
In a large pot, sweat the diced onion and green bell pepper with the garlic and oil. Once they are soft, add the remaining ingredients to the pot and bring to a boil. Once it boils, drop the heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
The soup is best served with guacamole, sour cream, grated cheese, or tortilla chips.
A couple of notes about the the ingredients:
First, jalapeños can be of varying strength. You may want to wear gloves when cutting them to prevent absorbing the oil into your skin which can cause a burning sensation.
Second, make sure you use fresh cilantro. Fresh is way better than the dried stuff.
Today we're making pulled pork using a crock pot. I love using my crock pot since it means that I can assemble the ingredients the in the morning or the night before, turn on the crock pot in the morning and when I get home from work the house smells incredible.
In this case, I assembled all of the ingredients the night before into the removable stoneware from the crock pot. I placed the lid on the stoneware and put it in the refrigerator. In the morning, I took it out, put it in the crock pot, and went to work. Super easy.
Ingredients
- 1 pork shoulder (mine was 4.59lb bone-in)
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 cups ketchup (this is equivalent to an entire 24oz bottle)
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup water (optional, I'd omit)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp hot sauce
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Directions
Start by slicing the onion.
Now plop the pork shoulder into the crock pot. Lay the onion slices on top of the pork. Add the brown sugar, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce first, then add the ketchup, vinegar, and water on top. Turn the crock pot on low and come back in 8-10 hours.
After 10 hours on low it was still really liquidly, so I turned the heat up to high and let it go for another 2 hours without the lid. The pork was incredibly tender and shredded very easily. More importantly, it was delicious. The sauce was thin, so next time I'd omit the water.
I used the pulled pork to make sandwiches,
tacos,
and ate it with chips.
Happy cooking.
The recipe shown here is a modification of this one.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day and while not everyone has the time to cook a delicious breakfast everyday, I like to take the time, when I can, to cook something that I'll really enjoy.
Ingredients
- 1 bagel (I used an everything bagel)
- 1 egg
- 2 strips of bacon
- 1 slice of cheese (I used cheddar)
- honey (optional)
- hot sauce (optional)
- 1/2 Tbls. butter (not shown)
Directions
Slice the bacon strips in half and lay them in a frying pan to cook.
Slice the bagel in half and put it into the toaster, if desired. When the bacon finished cooking, remove it from the pan and lay the strips on a plate with a paper towel beneath them to drain the grease.
Drain the fat from the frying pan. Melt the butter in the pan and make sure the bottom of the pan is covered. Add a little bit of extra butter if necessary. Crack your egg into the pan to cook. I like to cook my egg until the yoke is hard, but you can cook yours however you like.
You can start to build the sandwich as the egg finished cooking. I like to build mine, starting at the bottom, with honey, cheese, bacon, hot sauce, and then the egg. If you don't like honey or hot sauce, you could try adding ketchup instead.
Now enjoy.
