Olive Garden Protein Pasta

 Serves 6-8

From Zac Coens YouTube channel:

1.5- 2 pounds chicken breasts, diced

16 oz light Olive Garden dressing

1 TBSP garlic powder

1 TBSP onion powder

1 tsp paprika 

1 tsp oregano

Salt and pepper

8 oz Cream Cheese (Greek cream cheese if you can find it) 

14.5 oz Protein Penne

5 oz baby spinach

Place chicken in crock pot. Combine spices with dressing and pour over chicken. Dice cream cheese into 8 blocks and place blocks on top of chicken and dressing. Place lid on crock pot and cook on low 4 hours. When it’s almost time to eat, boil pasta. While pasta is cooking remove lid from chicken, stir cream cheese into mixture, then pour in the spinach and let wilt and cook while pasta is cooking. Once pasta is cooked, drain and stir into crockpot. Mix thoroughly then serve. 

Cowboy Pot Roast

1 1/2 t. salt, divided
1 1/2 t. pepper, divided
1 (14.5 oz) can petite-cut diced tomatoes, drained
1 can Rotel
1 onion, cut into wedges
1 T. chili powder
1 (2 1/2 to 3 lb) eye of round roast, trimmed (I use what was on sale!)
2 T. veggie oil
2 cans of Pinto beans, drained
1 can of Black beans, drained

Combine 1 t. salt, 1 t. pepper, and next 4 ingredients in bowl.Sprinkle reast evenly w/remaining salt and pepper. Brown roast on all sides in hot oil.
Transfer roast to a crock pot. Pour tomatoe mixture over roast. Cover and cook on HIGH 5 to 6 hours.
Remove roast from the slow cooker and cut into large chunks; keep warm
Skim the fat from the crock pot. Mash 1 1/2 cans pinto beans and add to the crock pot. Stir in black beans and remaining pintos. Add the roast pieces back to the crock pot; cover and cook on HIGH 20 to 25 more minutes. Top w/jalapenos, if desired.

Now add some cornbread - if ya know what's good for ya!

Crockpot Rotisserie Chicken

I got this from the Flylady website. So easy and DELICIOUS!

Put 1 or 2 whole chickens in the crockpot and sprinkle them with Lemon Pepper seasoning. Cook them on high 6-7 hours, or low 8-10 hours.

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breasts

from MC Jennings

6 boneless chicken breasts
6 slices ham
6 slices Swiss cheese
12 strips bacon
tarragon
parsley

Pound breasts until 1/4" thick. Top each piece with a slice of ham and 1 slice of cheese. Fold chicken over ham and cheese. Wrap each bundle with 2 strips of bacon. Place in a shallow baking dish and sprinkle with tarragon. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until chicken and bacon are browned. Garnish with parsley.

To adapt to crockpot:
I put chicken breasts in sprayed (with Pam) crockpot. I put cheese and bacon on top of each piece of chicken and added 1/4 cup water in bottom. Cook on low for 4-5 hours (I do this because my crockpot has a warming function that while only supposed to warm, continues to cook). The chicken was very moist and tender and so easy.

5/17/2005 8:25 AM

Beef Tips

by Denise

I have a disclaimer at the start: my 3 year old only wants bean burritos and my 7 year old will eat most anything. So with that said...

I love the crock pot!
Beef Tips
2 lbs. beef tips (or roast that United cuts up for free)
1 can of Campbell's French Onion soup
1 can of Campbell's Golden Mushroom soup

I cut the tips smaller so there is less cutting at the table for the kids. Just put all in the crock pot and cook on LOW all day. Serve over rice or noodles.
Denise

5/16/2005 2:07 PM

Pulled Pork

From Mignon
(originally from Billie Teague)

For each 2 lbs of Boston Butt Pork roast
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup vinegar

Combine brown sugar & vinegar in roaster. Put in roast and add water to cover completely. Cover with a lid and bake at 300 degrees for 12 hours. Remove roast from liquid and let cool. Pull and put in 9 x 13 dish. Mix with Bar-B-Q sauce (I used K. C. Masterpiece hickory; it took an 18-oz bottle for 6 lbs of meat.). Heat, covered, for 1-1½ hours at 200 degrees.

5/13/2005 10:11 PM

Crock Pot Barbeque Chicken

Robyn

"an easy and often requested recipe"

Six Frozen Chicken Breasts, One cut up chicken (fresh), or a package of leg quarters (thawed)

1 Bottle of KC Masterpiece Barbeque Sauce

1 Tablespoon of liquid smoke

1/4 C Water

Spray crockpot with cooking spray. Place chicken and then cover with the rest of the ingredients. Cook on low for 8 to 9 hours.

Eat and enjoy!!!!

Easy Roast Beef

Roxanne
If you own a crock pot, you can make this. . .it cooks itself. You have to start it in the morning, but if you know ahead of time you have a booger of a day coming, you will be prepared. I have also cooked it overnight and served it for lunch. The "secret" ingredient would make my Daddy cringe, but Momma has made it for him this way and he is none-the-wiser!

Buy a roast beef--doesn't matter what cut
Trim the fat
Dump salt and pepper all over it and seer (seer=small amount of oil in a skillet--about half an inch deep--heat the oil, put the meat in and cook all sides until just brown to lock in the juices)
Put the seered meat in your crock pot
Make THREE packages of instant brown gravy (I use Pioneer Brown Gravy mix). Just follow the directions on the package.
Pour that on top of your meat.
Turn on low and cook all day (about 6 hours) until meat is fork tender.

This tastes like what your Granny made. . .the meat juices cook into the packaged gravy and makes a "perfect" gravy every time.

Serve with salad, bread, and veggies