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Fall is upon us, and there's no doubt it's nice to come home to a
warm home-cooked meal! If you let your crock pot do the work for
you, you can get dinner ready in the morning and it will be there
waiting for you at dinner time. You'd be surprised how many
meals can be prepared in a crock pot. Here are just a few:
Crock Pot Lasagna
1 box rigatoni, cooked
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef, browned & drained
1 lg. pkg. sliced pepperoni
1 green pepper, chopped
2 lg. pkg. grated Mozzarella cheese
2 lg. cans pizza sauce
1 med. onion, chopped
8 oz. mushrooms
Green olives, sliced
Begin with layer of sauce on bottom of crock pot. Stir all
remaining ingredients together. Place in crock pot and cook on
low for 5 hours.
Crock Pot Pork Chops
6 to 8 lean pork chops
1/2 c. flour
1 tbsp. salt
1 (10 oz.) can chicken and rice soup
1 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
2 tbsp. oil
Coat pork chops in mixture of flour, salt, dry mustard, and
garlic powder. Brown in oil in skillet. Place browned pork chops
in crock pot. Add can of soup. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8
hours or on high for 3 1/2 hours.
Crock Pot Meat Loaf
2 lbs. ground beef
1/2 lb. ground sausage
2 med. onions, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, chopped
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 c. sour cream
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 1/2 c. bread or cracker crumbs
1 1/2 c. milk
Soak bread or cracker crumbs in milk. Mix meat, seasonings, and
soaked crumbs thoroughly. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and
mushroom soup. Make meat mixture into loaf and place in crock
pot. Pour the sour cream-soup mixture over top. Cook in crock pot
10 to 12 hours on low.
Crock Pot Stew
3 pounds lean stewing beef, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1/2 cup beef broth
1 can (10-1/2 oz.) condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 can (4 oz.) sliced mushrooms, drained (opt.)
Combine all ingredients in crock pot and cook on low for 8 to 12
hours.
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who is the author of
What's for Dinner?, an e-cookbook containing more than 250 quick
easy dinner ideas. For more recipes, gardening, organizing tips,
home decorating, holiday hints, and more, visit Creative
Homemaking at http://www.creativehomemaking.com.
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