Crock Pot Apple Pork Chops

It's apple season in Michigan and what goes better with pork than apple. Slow cooker easy and tasty enough to leave them asking for more.


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Healthy Crock Pot Red Chicken Chili

A delicious healthy slow cooker chicken chili with some of that great red chili taste. You get to "have your cake and eat it too" with this recipe.

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Easy Crock Pot Vegetable Beef Soup

Um Um GOOD. A wonderful old-fashioned vegetable beef soup that is slow cooker easy.

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Easy Crock Pot Pork Chops with Gravy

Fall apart tender pork chops covered with gravy. It makes your mouth water. All in an easy slow cooker recipe.

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Ham Bone Vegetable Soup - Crock Pot Edition

Smoky ham flavor in a slow cooker simple vegetable soup.  We occasionally have a ham bone, not a real common occurrence when you're cooking for two but it does happen. So what to do with a ham bone from that holiday spiral cut ham? You can toss it or make soup.

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Crock Pot Pulled Pork Loin

Use it for BBQ, use it for Mexican or anywhere you wand a moist and tasty shredded pork. Healthy and low fat "pulled" pork from a pork loin using a slow cooker. An almost no work recipe.

I love pork but generally pork loin is way too lean for shredding but cooking it in a spiced up braising liquid and then adding some back for moisture will get you what you want. I modified my own oven based shredded pork loin recipe. I'm giving you two options.  One for BBQ and one for Mexican.

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Crock Pot Chicken Marinara Sauce

Easy and tasty for Italian night. Just dump the ingredients in the slow cooker and come back to eat.

I started with my wife's marinara. It bursts with sweet tomato taste due to the paste that is used. Add some skinless boneless chicken breast and you have a healthy low fat Italian family feast.

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Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Gravy

A classic comfort food made crock pot easy. Have a full meal with left overs ready when you get home. Spend a few minutes making gravy and you're the dinner hero.

I started with a chuck roast. You can use a leaner cut of beef but it will not be as tender. We like our roast falling apart. I browned mine before adding and cooked the onion and garlic a little before starting but skip both these parts if you want. Most home cooks do but I think the minimal work adds some additional flavor.

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Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore

Another "dump and go" easy slow cooker recipe. A classic healthy Italian recipe that is low in fat.  The chicken comes out moist, fall apart tender and packed with taste.

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Ultra Simple Crock Pot White Chicken Chili

This is the EASIEST white chicken chili slow cooker recipe you will ever see. Dump, dump, dump cook for 4 hours with stirring once or twice in the middle. You are rewarded for you laziness with a great chili and all your friends will demand the recipe.

For the first time, I'm repeating a recipe. This was one of my first posts and it has always been one of my most requested recipes. Maybe 50 people saw the first post so a repeat is definitely in order.

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Uncooked Macaroni Crock Pot Mac and Cheese

Great taste, wonderful creamy texture in the easiest creamiest slow cooker mac and cheese you will ever see. You can make this tonight. No blue box for you.

Just put that uncooked macaroni in the crockpot. Yep, uncooked. Add some milk and spices. Cook. Then add cheese and in a few minutes you're done.  No can of soup needed. Serve FRESH today.

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Crock Pot Mexican Shredded Beef

A slow cooker easy recipe that will give you a very moist and flavorful shredded Mexican beef that is perfect for any Mexican dish – nachos, tacos, burritos or enchiladas. The cooked roast will literally fall apart making a moist and juicy shredded beef.

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Crock Pot Chicken Noodle Soup for Two

An ultra simple slow cooker recipe for chicken noodle soup. Sized just right for a small crock pot. Bring on the cold season, I'm ready now.
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Mexican Shredded Chicken in a Crock Pot

Great in tacos or anywhere you would use Mexican shredded chicken. A chicken taco salad. Chicken burritos or enchiladas. My wife is planning a Mexican buffet with this as a featured component.

Start with some skinless boneless chicken breast and cook in a slow cooker in spiced up salsa until it falls apart. Shred and add some sour cream, corn and black beans.

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Healthy Crock Pot Chicken Vegetable Soup

A wonderfully tasty and healthy slow cooker soup for the colder days to come that's chucked full of veggie goodness with a little extra sweetness due to white corn. Plus it's slow cooker easy.

Somewhat inspired by a cooks.com recipe with only a few minor changes. The biggest change was from the white corn that added a lot of extra sweetness.

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Creamiest Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese

A creamy tasty mac and cheese recipe that is slow cooker simple. Good enough to make my "in-house mac and cheese expert" go back for seconds and talk about variations we can try with glee in her voice.

UPDATE Jan 13,2013: Newer version available with even less work and just as creamy.  

Creamy Crock Pot Mac and Cheese with Uncooked Macaroni (linky)

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Spicy 3 Chilies Texas Chili a la Crock Pot

A simple five star Texas no bean chili with a rich spicy heat. It has lots of kick and a great taste profile from the three types of chilies. To top it off, this is an extremely easy "dump and cook" slow cooker recipe.

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Texas Crock Pot Chili

Texas Chili... What is it? Well it could be any chili cooked in Texas or by a Texan but the consensus seems to be a beef chili with no beans. I will go with that...

I have been home alone for 6 weeks due to a family emergency so I'm "cooking for one". Plus I'm working 12 hour days. So I'm doing my cooking in chunks with left overs for heating up in the evening. I trying to avoid the "I'm hungry and have nothing at home so let's hit the drive-thru" syndrome. This all spells "Crock Pot" to me so this blog may look like a crockpot blog for a while.

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Healthy Crockpot White Bean Chili Spiced Up

You could say a lot about this chili. You could call it healthy, low fat, and low glycemic. I'm will just call it excellent.

I have always loved white bean in soups or chili and slow cooker chili fits my current life style.  It is just the right thing. One of my favorite chilies uses pepper jack cheese and salsa for spicing. I want to control the spicing and get the cheese out of the recipe.

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Kick Tail Taco Soup in a Crockpot

A fine slow cooker recipe for a winter or football weekend. Kick tail spicy with a ton of great taste. This is a thick soup, maybe more "taco chili" but since I used soup recipes to make it, I'll stick with soup.

Most recipes start with some burger and taco seasoning. I started with a modified version of my spicy taco meat. The main complaint about most taco soups appears to be the mild spices. I bumped it up and add a jalapeno. I added all the spices to the meat so it would retain some flavor and not have it all washed out in the soup. Excellent, just right.
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