Crock Pot Recipes

So if everyone loves crock pots - what are your favorite recipes? Please share!

Aunt Shela's White Corn Salsa

This recipe is best eaten with Tostitos Lime Chips.

2 cans Shoepeg White Corn
1 medium bell pepper chopped
5 green onions chopped
1 small can chopped black olives
7-8 roma tomatoes chopped
1 bottle Zesty Italian dressing
1 4oz can green chilis
1/2 bunch cilantro chopped
Juice from one lime
Garlic Salt and Pepper to taste


Combine all ingredients and serve.

(lots of GREEN ingredients in this) but with the tomatoes and the corn - it is really pretty.

Toaster OVEN - What do you think?

It is so hot here in the summer that we hate to use the oven. I have been debating on getting a toaster oven. I have never had one and so am still on the fence. I hate things on the counter and don't want another appliance cluttering up my counter.

What do you guys think?
Do you have one? Do you love it? What do you cook in it?

Punch - more like expensive Hawaiian Punch

I didn't like this (way too sweet) but the ladies at the baby shower did. To me if you are going to buy all these ingredients, it would be cheaper to just buy Hawaiian Punch. I won't be making this one again.

RAINBOW PUNCH
1 (6oz) package cherry gelatin (Thanks Ronda but this isn't kool aid mix)
1 (12oz) can frozen lemonade
1 (12oz) can frozen orange juice
1 (46oz) can pineapple juice
1 (2 liter) bottle sprite soda
Blend together until gelatin is dissolved with all juices and lemonade; stir in soda and serve.

Cucumber Tea Sandwiches

Have you ever made these before? Way easy - I made them for a baby shower and they must have been decent because they all got eaten.

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/tea-sandwiches-94145.aspx

Crock Pot Enchilada

This recipe was pretty easy. I cut it in half. The presentation was nice but as Bret said presentation is nothin', if it doesn't taste good. Alex said he liked it but I think that was just because he didn't want to hurt my feelings. Bret ate all that was on his plate but I think he was just hungry. I would make it again but I would use more meat and not cook it on high for as long (as I burned the bottom layer or two).
The part that I liked the best was putting al. foil on the bottom and then when it was done cooking, I just lifted it out using the foil.

Ingredients:

• 2 packages (1 1/2 ounces each) enchilada sauce mix
• 3 cups water
• 2 cans (6 ounces each) tomato paste
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• salt to taste
• 2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1/2 cup chopped onion, or to taste
• 1 sweet red or yellow bell pepper, seeded and chopped
• 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded, minced, or use mild chile peppers
• 5 to 6 large flour tortillas (8-inch)
• 4 cups shredded Mexican blend cheese
• 1 can (12 ounces) refried beans
• your choice of garnishes

Preparation:

First, make foil "handles." Fold a 30-inch long piece of foil in half lengthwise. Place in bottom of a slow cooker with both ends hanging over top edge of cooker.The foil strip will make it much easier to remove the burrito stack when done.

Lightly grease crockpot. In saucepan, combine the first six ingredients; simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown ground beef with onion, bell pepper, and minced jalapeno or mild peppers. Drain off fat. Stir about 1/3 of sauce mix into the browned beef mixture.

Spoon a small amount of sauce into bottom of the slow cooker.

Spread a small amount of refried beans over one of the flour tortillas. Place the tortilla on top of sauce in Crock Pot, tearing to fit if necessary. Spoon meat mixture over tortilla and then top with a small amount of the shredded cheese. Continue layering until tortillas are used or within an inch of top of crockpot. Cover and cook on LOW 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3-4 hours. Lift burritos out by the foil handles and place on serving plate. Cut in wedges; garnish with chopped tomato, shredded lettuce, sour cream, sliced ripe olives, or your own favorite combination. Serves 4 to 6.

Baked Ziti from The Neely's on Food TV

This wasn't a big hit. Bret likes spinach so I thought he would at least like it.
At least there was the back up garlic bread - hard to mess that up!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/neelys-baked-ziti-recipe/index.html