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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