Slooooooooooow Cooker
 

So now that I have a "real" slow cooker (eg: not the little $4 Walmart version but a serious 5.5-quart actual Crock Pot), I need recipes!

What I'm looking for though, are not necessarily the fancy things with a million ingredients. I'm looking mostly for basic methods and ways slow cookers are used. So that thing you cook where you don't measure anything but just sort of from memory toss a few things in and it always comes out great? That's what I'm looking for. I know at least a few of you out there have things you consider "super easy" where the "recipe" is something along the lines of "dump this and this together into the pot and turn it on".

Of course, if you're a Crock Pot enthusiast and have something great you're dying to share, no one's going to slap you silly with a large trout for posting it here ;)

Let's hear it slow cookers! What do I simply HAVE to try?

Stew. Call Susan for recipe (if you PM her, you may not get an answer until 2009)

I'm a big fan of Swedish Meatballs.

(Waits for Kevy to comment)

Pot Roast. Some combination of sauteed veggies, some sort of flavorful liquid (broths and wines work well), some sort of fatty, flavorful cut (I like chuck for a roast), low heat, lots of time. Voila.

Chili.

Meat, kidney beans, tomatoes, onions, other shyt. yum.

I second that! A crock pot was tops on my wife's Christmas list so we are now a crock pot family. Personally, I say if you can't cook bacon in it what's the point?

Pot roast and two cans of cream of mushroom soup (plus any desired seasonings like garlic, etc.)

During the last half hour, add some corn starch to make the soup into gravy.

Serve with potatoes. :D

Spaghetti sauce

Babies

Sour Cream Bacon Chicken

Cook Time: 8 hours,

Ingredients:
8 bacon slices
8 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 (10 oz) cans roasted garlic cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup flour
Preparation:
Wrap one slice of bacon around each boneless chicken breast and place in a 3-4 quart crockpot. In medium bowl, combine condensed soups, sour cream, and flour and mix with wire whisk to blend. Pour over chicken. Cover crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours until chicken and bacon are thoroughly cooked. Serves 8