Italian sausages + home-made sauce + peppers + onions in the crock pot. Ask me anything.

[Miles Archer]

Put it in at 9 AM, ready at 5, which is somewhere around halftime for the game today.

House smells like an Italian lives here.

Because one does.

[Lochloosa]

1. Address?

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Lol

[PennyK]

2. Yum!

I don't know much about crock pots. That sounds like it takes at least two or three times the amount of time it would take on the stove? I guess the advantage is, no stirring?

[Miles Archer]

3. No stirring and a consistent, low, even heat...no scorching.

It carmelizes a little bit around the edge of the pot but no, I don't stur.

[Facility Inspector]

5. There's really no reason to cook

the sausage that long.

I've heard oldtimers talk about cooking gravy for hours on end, but usually 2 - 4 hours is sufficient.

Never heard of using a crock pot for any of this, however.

[PufPuf23]

6. I cook often crock potin Winter and Fall

I make killer melt-in-your mouth carnitas and carne asada (for burritos, tacos, or enchiladas)in the crock pot, the meat cooked with fresh onions, garlic, and peppers plus spice.

Also chili, lima, navy, and other beans.

And split pea and lentil and turkey or chicken or vegetarian vegetable soups.

In Fall I often add wild matusake mushrooms (and sometimes sherry wine).

I have made salmon and matusake soup from the trimming of salmon prepared for wet smoking.

Another soup "recipe" is a chicken or turkey base with garbanzos, pepper, and curry.

Post Thanksgiving, I made a turkey, green pepper, and winter butternut squash soup that was creamy yet no milk products.

"Recipe" as I never actually use a written recipe but use what is on hand and the slow cooking allows one to take lesser cuts of meat and create an extremely tender outcome.

Similar to the carnitas and carne asada, is chicken or lamb killer melt-in-your mouth curry served with brown rice.

Just about every meat carcass (or sometimes ham hock) spends a day in crock pot then I sort out the bones and yuck and add some legume and fresh peppers, onion, and garlic.

I have two large chunks of venison in the freezer now left by a friend that will show up and expect me to make venison chili for him.

I freeze extra in plastic salsa or parmesan cheese tubs from the grocery.

Crock pots are a cool tool for cheap good eating.

[dembotoz]

9. makes the cheap on sale cuts edible

and it makes it look like i actually know how to cook.


no more dried out shoe leather for supper

[Facility Inspector]

4. no neckbones?

[Flying Squirrel]

8. Ever try veggie sausage?

[bigwillq]

10. Are you Italian? (nt)