Making Chili

Chili is the perfect dish to cook when you’re camping or when the weather is so cold that you’re wondering just when it’s going to end. It’s easy to make, too. All you need is some ground beef– throw that in the bottom of the pan and cook it up, leaving the juice for added flavor when you add the beans and the other ingredients. Just stir the ingredients together and let them simmer for a while, and you’ve got a tasty pot of chili big enough for the whole family.

Making Shredded Pork

It can be tough to shred pork that isn’t very tender, but when you cook pork using a crock pot it will be so succulent and juicy that it will seem to fall apart at a glance. You can easily make tamales, tacos, burritos, sloppy joes or sandwiches from pork this tender.

All you have to do is buy some pork and place it in the crock pot with your favorite seasonings. Once you let it cook for a good long time, the pork will be ready for shredding. The meat will be so soft that you can pull it apart with your fingers or even a fork. You won’t have to spend hours cutting it because it will be so juicy that it will quickly fall apart.

Making Spaghetti and Pasta

The sauce is actually the best to cook in the crock pot, because you should boil the pasta in another pot on the stove as usual. But either while the pasta is boiling or before, you can get the sauce ready.

Cook the ground beef in the crock pot and then add the tomato sauce or pasta sauce that you have pre-prepared. You might also want to add some other ingredients into the mix–olives, stewed tomatoes, and spices all make great additions to pasta sauce. Make sure you drain the pasta before you add it to the sauce and stir it around until its nice and warm.

Making Chorizo

Another easy meal to prepare with even a small crock pot! Just get some chorizo and mix it in the pot with some eggs, and cook it like you would cook a pack of ground beef, stirring slowly until everything is cooked through. Once its done sprinkle some shredded cheddar on the top and let it melt by replacing the lid. When its finished, you can scoop some out and eat it with flour tortillas–delicious!

I know a large crock pot can take up a lot of space, and maybe its been laying around gathering dust in your apartment for some time now. But don’t throw it away without at least giving it a chance to prove itself! Try a few of the recipes that I mentioned, and you might be surprised. You might decide that you’re a crock pot chef after all.

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Cooking Chili

Chili is delicious, hearty, and easy to make, perfect for those long winter nights that seem to go on forever. If you’re wondering if the cold will ever end, you should dust off that crock pot and make yourself some chili. Plug it in and start off by cooking the ground beef in the bottom of the pot. Don’t cook it separately in a pan, or else you won’t be able to enjoy the juices from the beef as a part of your chili. Once the meat is ready you can throw in your beans and your other ingredients, and then just let it simmer for a while– before you know it, you’ll have a hearty bowl all to yourself.

Cooking Shredded Pork

The recipes for shredded pork are nearly endless. There are so many things you can use it for; pork sandwiches, sloppy joes, or tamales, just to name a few. You can even sprinkle it on top of a taco.

The easiest way to make pork so tender you can shred it with a fork without even cutting it is to use a crock pot. Get some pork and place it in the crock pot. Then let it soak in your seasonings for the rest of the day, and by the time you’re ready to use it for dinner, you can easily shred it with your fingers or even a spoon.

Cooking Spaghetti and Pasta

You probably shouldn’t try boiling your pasta in the crock pot, but you can do that in a separate pot on a stove while you use the crock pot to prepare your sauce. Set that pasta and the pot of water aside for now and worry about it later.

The first thing you need to do is cook the ground beef in the bottom of the crock pot, just like you did to make the chili. Next add some tomato sauce and whatever other ingredients or seasonings you like to add to your pasta sauce. While the meat is cooking with the sauce you should boil your pasta, and then once that’s done, you can add it to the mix by draining it and dumping it right into the crock pot. Let the pasta mix with the sauce and pretty soon you’ll have yourself a meal.

Cooking Chorizo

This is one of the quickest things to cook up in the crock pot. Buy some pork chorizo from the store along with some eggs. Mix them together in the bottom of the pan until they are cooked together, and once they’re done, shred some cheddar cheese on top of them. Put the lid back on the crock pot and let the cheese melt. Soon, it will be ready for you to enjoy– in my opinion, its served best on flour tortillas.

Now that you know what you can do with your crock pot you might want to rethink throwing it away! Instead of wasting it, why not try your hand at some of the recipes mentioned above? Once you’ve had a taste of what a programmable crock pot has to offer, you won’t be so quick to part with it.

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Chili

Never have I tasted chili as delicious as that which comes out of a crock pot. Its easy to get a pound or two of ground beef and if you fry them up in the bottom of the crock pot instead of using a pan, then you can be sure all the juices will be a part of your chili, adding flavor as the rest of your favorite chili ingredients soak it all up.

Shredded Pork

There are so many things you can do with a few pounds of shredded pork. You can make tamales, you can make sloppy joes, or you can make yourself the messiest, most awesome sandwich by stuffing it between two fat hamburger buns.

But the way you get yourself some pork that’s tender enough to shred at the slightest touch is by using a crock pot. Buy yourself a big piece of pork and let it soak in the crock pot for most of the day, and by the time you’re ready to complete your dish, your pork will fall apart at the slightest poke of a knife. It’s easy.

Spaghetti and Pasta

Although its recommended that you boil the actual pasta in a pot, the crock pot is still an excellent way to prepare the sauce. When your pasta is finished boiling, drain it and set it aside, and then turn to the crock pot with the ingredients for your sauce.

First fry up some ground beef in the bottom and then add the tomato sauce and any other ingredients you feel fit with your favorite spaghetti. Once its simmered to perfection, you can add the pasta, and the crock pot will magically fuse your sauce with the rigatoni, or ravioli, or penne or whatever variety you chose.

Chorizo

Chorizo is a quick and excellent way to prepare a hearty breakfast. Buy yourself some pork chorizo from the store and toss it in the bottom of the crock pot. Mix in some eggs as well, and let them cook together. The crock pot will help the eggs and chorizo blend to form a delicious mix. Once the eggs and chorizo are cooked, sprinkle some shredded cheese over the top and cover it up to let the cheese melt. Enjoy with flour tortillas whenever you’re ready–it will stay nice and warm until you are!

So before you throw away your crock pot because it looks “weird” or because you don’t know how to cook with it, ask yourself; “do I like chili? Do I like shredded pork? Do I like to combine my pasta with my custom pasta sauce so that by the time they’re done, the meal has blended to perfection? Do I like chorizo with flour tortillas sprinkled with melted cheddar? Do I want all of these things with limited preparation time?” If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, its time to wipe the dust off that thing and get to work. If you are a crock pot newbie, I suggest you check out a Rival crock pot to get started!

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