[Jamestown1630]

I am definitely going to look at both of those books.

Thanks very much!

-JT

[garandgal]

I use a crock pot very often. I don’t use crock pot recipes...use regular recipes and figure out how to cook them in the crock pot. Most are easily adaptable. Also, I use probably twice the seasoning that I would normally use and freshen it up again towards the end of the cooking process.

Great luck that way!

For example:

I made meatballs and browned them slightly. Threw them in the crock pot with a jar of Prego, a can of tomato sauce, a can of fire roasted tomatoes, some diced green pepper and onion. Along with a good dose of garlic, dried oregano, Italian herbs, white pepper, chili power (yes, really), and salt.

After 8 hours on low, some of the meatballs had broken down, leaving a great meaty sauce to go along with those still intact. Whipped up a 10 minute Ricotta gnocchi (ridiculously easy and good Food Network recipe). It was awesome topped with shaved Parm.