The picture from KraftI received a slow cooker for our wedding and I was excited to find some great slow cooker recipes to add to my recipe box. I've tried a few out over the past year and a half and have not found a single one that we've really enjoyed. I thought I was going to end my streak when I found a recipe in the Kraft Food magazine for Slow Cooker Orange Chicken. Boy was I wrong! It turned out smelling burnt and looking like dog food. We decided to go ahead and try to eat it anyways, because we didn't want to waste so much food, but we couldn't take more than a few bites.
Picture of our disasterI thought it was just my bad luck with slow cooker recipes until I went to the Kraft website and found the recipe online. It turns out everyone was getting the same results we did. Kraft heard the complaints and have now posted a new recipe for this dish. I'm not sure if we're brave enough to try the new recipe after having such a disaster the first time around, but we would like to find some great slow cooker recipes. If you have a tried and true recipe for the slow cooker, send it our way, we'd love to try it out!
2 comments:
Ohhh no!! Wow, this makes me laugh. :-)
I've made some pretty yummy things in the slow cooker, and I'm trying to remember them.
One was an interesting recipe with corn on the cob wrapped in bacon with chile peppers over it. I think that came out of a cookbook that isn't mine though... bummer.
I also made a really good Christmas ham in the slow cooker. That recipe came off allrecipes.com and had a lot of brown sugar in it. Even Adam liked it, and he isn't a big fan of ham. Maybe it was this recipe? This isn't really an everyday recipe though...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Slow-Cooker-Ham/Detail.aspx
I'll let you know if I run across any of the other ones I've done that have worked well!
Actually, I think it was something like this:
mix butter, garlic, black pepper (any combination, whatever you prefer)
shuck your corn, remove silks ... spread seasoned butter onto each ear of corn
wrap two pieces of bacon around each ear of corn ... secure with toothpicks
add about a half cup of chicken broth to the crock-pot (you can use water) and some chili peppers. I feel like I added something else too, but can't remember what it was. :(
stack the corn in your crock-pot ... put the lid on and cook for about 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
There. Easy peasy.
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