Fast And Easy Dinners

Crock Pot Recipes:

Crock Pot recipes are easy, fast, and fun. You can put almost anything in a crock pot. You cook to you and your family's taste. You can use onion and garlick cloves just for flavor without eating them. Just take them out before serving. Your whole meal goes into one pot. What an easy clean up. If you take 15 minutes to load your crock pot before work in the morning, your meal is ready when you get home. I like to load mine before bed on Friday night and wake to a wonderful smell in the morning. I cook on low for long overnighters. Just pick a meat, a potato and a veggie, and use just a small amount of liquid. Crock pots cook best with less liquid and your meat will produce juices. Some great juices to add to your crock pot recipes are soup mix one cup of water, soy sauce, barbeque sauce, and Italian salad dressing. Dry spices that work well are garlick or onion salt or powder, Italian season, celery salt, and meat tenderizer.

Your choices are endless. Every time you cook, your recipe will be different depending on what you have on hand. So go ahead. Be bold, invent your own recipes, and enjoy the easy fast use of your crockpot. Here are some of my favorite crockpot dishes.

 Italian Sausage: Feeds 2

• 1 package spicy Italian sausage (4 links)
• 1 onion cut into four pieces
• 1 green pepper cut into eight slices
• 1 pkg rolls or hot dog buns
• 1 jar of Pizza Quick sauce

1. Place sausage, onion, pepper, and pizza sauce into crockpot.
2. Turn crock pot on low.
3. Let cook for six hours.
4. Serve on rolls with chips.

This is a great recipe after a long day at work. Just throw it all together before you leave the house in the morning.

Pork Tenderloin: Feeds 6

• 1 large pork tenderloin. (about 5 lbs.)
• onion powder
• garlic powder
• 1 bottle barbeque sauce

1. Place tenderloin in crockpot on high.
2. Season with a generous amount of garlic and onion powder.
3. Add 1/2 cup of water.
4. Drizzle with one cup of barbeque sauce.
5. Cover and let cook for eight hours.
6. Drain off liquid.

 Roast can be sliced and served with potatoes and a veggie. You can also take a fork and pull the tenderloin roast apart, add bbq sauce and serve on buns with chips or potato salad.

Great for a working family. Makes a great leftover meal too.

Roast and Potatoes: Serves 6

• 4 lb beef roast
• 6 large potatoes
• 1 bag of baby carrots
• 1 package onion soup mix

1. In a large crock pot, place roast.
2. Wash and peel potatoes
3. Slice the potatoes long ways into four pieces each potato.
4. Place potato slices on top of roast.
5. Pour bag of baby carrots on top of the potatoes
6. Mix onion soup mix with one cup of water
7. Pout mixture over rest of the ingredients.
8. Place cover on crockpot and turn on high.
9. Cook for 8-9 hours.

This recipe is great to start in the morning before you leave for work. The house smells great when you get home, and dinner is ready with a quick clean up.

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