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[3goodeggs]

A good gift for him would be the cook book, 'A Man, A Can, and A Plan.'
From there he will slowly learn how to use fresh vegetables instead of the canned stuff, then he will slowly learn how to use fresh everything.

 

[Rosalind]

Is anybody here familiar with a rice cooker.

Yep, in fact if anyone on this earth does not have a crock-pot, I would strongly recommend getting a "fuzzy logic" rice cooker instead. They typically have "slow cook" as one of the options. They don't cook food especially fast, but the point is that you throw rice, water, fresh/frozen veggies and something like peeled shrimp, fish fillets or chicken strips in there, push the button, walk away and do something else for 45 minutes. When you come back, your food is done and being kept warm for you, you dump some sauce-in-a-jar on top, and dinner is served. You can't forget about it and burn the house down, it manages its own cooking and can sense when the food is getting done. You can also do porridge in it, set it up the evening before and wake up to oatmeal or "breakfast rice".

Easy red meat recipe, which we use with venison but also goes with pork:
Slice 1 onion and put the slices on the bottom of the crockpot
pour 1/4 c. oil in so the onions don't burn
put the roast or pork chops on top, evenly spread out if it's pork chops
fill with apple cider until the onions are all submerged and a little up the side of the meat
throw a couple of cloves or allspice in there. I don't know, five? ten? something like that.
sprinkle 1/4 c. brown sugar on top.
Put lid on crockpot and set to a convenient temperature. My crockpot is a lame piece o' garbage, so I have to set it on "high" to get it to work at all, but on a normal crockpot "low" for 8 hours would probably be OK. Serve w/ cooked egg noodles, salad.​

 

[Tuffoldhen]

This is a recipe from the older byc, it's easy to make and very good. Can use small whole chickens or cornish even.

http://backyardchickens.yuku.com/topic/8834/t/Melinda-s-Easy-Excellent-Chicken.html

 

[breezy]

Sounds weird but I put a pork roast in the crock with a jar of saurkraut. Sometimes I add caraway seeds. Let it cook down til its tender then serve with mashed potatoes. Makes a heck of a cold sandwhich the next day with brown grainy mustard

 

[DawnSuiter]

Sweet & Spicy Meatballs

1 Jar Heinz Chili Sauce
Equal portion of Grape Jelly
1lb of meatballs (I buy them in the bag now already frozen), or ground beef shaped into meatballs & cooked, or any kind of small beef patty really... for my wedding we used heart shaped cookie cutters and made heartcakes

Cook on low all day long... YUMMY dinner... serve with baked or mashed potatoes, any kind of buttered pasta, or in sandwiches of crusty bread.

you can cook it on the stove in about 30 minutes... gotta let the meat simmer in the sauce for at least a little while....

This is what we ate tonight in fact...

 

[lngrid]

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Here's the book at Amazon.com
Here it is at Abebook.com (used)
And here it is at Barnes and Noble (used)

 

[Laney]

I do the pork roast with cans of apple pie filling, it's really really yummy and works with any cut of pork.

My favorite is the picnic roast. Just cook it for 8-10hrs. Put it in before school, 1 3-4lb roast plus 1-2 cans of filling and it will be done at supper time. Cook up some mashed potatoes (instant works fine) and veggies in the micro and he's got a meal.

Beef roast is easy too, take some Swanson's beef stock/broth add it to the pot with some onions, carrots, and celery chopped up good and let it stew just about 20 minutes then put your roast in, go to school or out to do your stuff, come back in about 5hrs and add your potatoes, a little soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, maybe some A1 to taste, salt and pepper and let it simmer for another 1-2 hours until the potatoes are soft.

Chicken, get some pre-breaded patties, some pre-shredded mozzerella or pizza mix cheese and some kraft parmesan. Add in a little Spaghetti sauce and he has a cheap chicken parm worthy of any 16 year old.

Now my special Alfredo....so easy he can do it any time and have everyone ooohing over it.


For 4 people a recommended serving... double if you have teen boys, big appetites, want leftovers etc.

1 8oz brick of cream cheese
1 stick butter
4oz-6oz shreeded parmesan cheese (can be fresh or Kraft doesn't really matter)
White Pepper, or black if that is all you have on hand
Whole milk, half and half or heavy cream (depends on what you want to deal with calorie/fat wise)


Melt the butter in the pan slowly then add the cream cheese in chunks. Stir until it's melted in. Keep the heat on very low. Add in some milk or cream so that they butter will combine with the cheese well, then add in the parmesan and pepper to taste. Keep adding more milk/cream until it is about the thickness of spaghetti sauce.

Serve over spaghetti noodles. Adjust the recipe to your taste, add more or less cheese, pepper...sometimes I add a dolop of sour cream etc.

I often add either shrimp or broccoli to this for a great taste. You can add a lot of veggies to this pretty cheaply and really beef it up. Plenty of protein in the cheese.

Laney

 

[oberhaslikid]

Roast
I place chuck roast in crockpot and
pour 1 package of onions soup mix (Powder )
over the top add 1 glass of water
Cook for 6-8 hours on low and it falls apart.




Chicken and green beans
open and drain 4 cans of green beans place in the bottom of the crockpot.
place 4-6 pieces of chicken breast or legs or what ever you have on top.
open two cans of cream of mushroom soup and spoon over the chicken.sprinkle with bacon bits,
cook for 6-8 hours on low.


Turkey breast
place turkey breast in crock pot
sprinkle season salt all over the top and cook for 6-8 hours on low.

 

[kbarrett]

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I make them with or without soup mix and use enough water to cover the roast, I like to have lots of stock. You can also add potatoes & carrots before putting your roast in....then you'll have a complete meal

If you teach him to make gravy out of the broth you can do open face hot roast beef sandwiches for leftovers or serve it over rice. Leftover roast also makes great BBQ sandwiches, add ketchup, mustard & brown sugar.

 

[sonew123]

I make ham stew-chicken stew-beef stew almost the same way-fill crock pot 2/3 full of chicken broth or beef broth-then thorw cut up meat in there-chopped potatoes-onions-carrots-celery-I never measure-I just throw in alot of what we like. put on low at 8 am by 5 its all cooked tasty and tender-Im a lazy crock potter nothing extravagant:-( usually salt and pepper to taste. very easy in fact you can cut a ton of the ingrdients up leave in fridge and just crockpot a new stew every other day...SOrry about the loss Katy very sad...poor family