Apple Brown Betty

I have realized that none of my recipes are anything but dinner. You can literally cook so many things in a crock pot that extend past dinner. All meals, breakfast-lunch-dinner-dessert, could possibly be cooked in a crock pot! So I wanted to include a dessert recipe I found on the internet for a nice apple dessert that can be cooked in the crock pot. The website I got this from is

http://family.go.com/food/recipe-cp-787113-homestyle-apple-brown-betty-t/

This recipe and many others can be found by searching through there links but here is the recipe for apple brown betty.

Recipe
   6 cups cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
   1 cup bread crumbs
   1 TSP ground cinnamon
   1 TSP nutmeg
   1/8 TSP salt
   3/4 cup packed brown sugar
   1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
   1/4 finely chopped walnuts

Spray your crock pot with cooking spray and line the bottom with the apple slices. Then combine the remaining ingredient together and pour over the apples. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours, or on high for 2 hours.

I would think this recipe would be really tasty, especially with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! It would be really good after getting a fill of pulled pork sandwiches!

Chicken Mush

So I forgot to mention the story of chicken mush. Earlier on in the semester, I decided to make a chicken soup in my crock pot because it has been cold and I was just really feeling a soup. So I made a soup, couple containers of chicken broth, vegetables, lots of chicken, carrots, celery, basil, the whole shebang. I got this all going in the morning and put it on low so it would cook and make this awesome soup for when I got out of work at 6pm. My roommate was going to put rice in the soup around 5pm so that would cook and be ready for 6pm (putting it in the morning would have made the rice too soft and absorb a lot more of the liquid). So at 5pm, she texted me and asked if she should put the whole bag in the crock pot. I was like no, not the whole bag, like at most a cup! She texted me back to say she put half a bag in and she estimated it to me 3 cups of rice. I was thinking, oh well, it will be more of a chicken and rice soup with more emphasis on the rice part. Well, when I got back, there was nothing soup about what was in my crock pot. It was mush, a big chicken vegetable rice mush. It was delicious but definitely a juicy rice mush! We ate it all over the next couple of days but we joke about chicken mush because it actually came out really tasty!!

Pulled Pork

I have never tried to make pulled pork in a crock pot but my aunt does this all the time! It's super easy and makes great sandwiches all year round.

Recipe
   1 pork should roast (2 1/2 pounds)
   1 bottle (14 ounces) of your favorite BBQ sauce
   1 Tablespoon of fresh lemon
   1 TSP brown sugar
   1 medium onion, chopped

Put the roast in your crock pot on low for 10 to 12 hours, or high for 5-6 hours. When the roast is done cooking, remove from crock pot and drain the liquid that occurs when cooking in the crock pot, the pork broth if you might say, and put back in crock pot. Shred pork with two forks, and add in all the remaining ingredients. Cover and cook again for 2 hours on low or 1 hour on high.

And then finally, get some of your favorite bread or rolls, make sandwiches and enjoy!!! Super easy and delicious and serves 8 people so invite some of your friends over!

Baked Beans

I have been having this craving for baked beans! I really want to try and make homemade bake beans in my crock pot (although the best way would be bean hole beans!) But since I can't do that and I am still trying to find a good recipe for homemade baked beans, this semi-homemade recipe will have to work. I found this recipe by searching baked beans on

www.crock-pot .com

It is really simple and is super delicous!

Recipe
   5 slices of bacon (or more), cut into 1 inch pieces
   32 ounces of canned baked beans, drained
   1 green pepper, cut up
   1 onion, cut up
   1 1/2 teaspoon of mustard
   1 cup ketchup
   1/2 cup barbecue sauce
   1/2 cup brown sugar

All you have to do is put all the ingredients into your crock pot and mix together. I used more onion, green pepper, and bacon than the recipe called for because I like all these ingredients and it was delicious! Just cook on low for 8-10 hours or high for 3-4 hours.