Welcome to my corner of the web! I am sure many of you have been here before, I see quite a few of familiar faces. I will try not to bore you with my introduction, dont worry! I am a newly homeschooling Christ loving mom of 3. I have been married to my husband for over a decade, and couldnt imagine my life with anyone else. I live in the sunny state of Florida, right around the corner from my parents, whom I am extremely close to (and yes, by choice!)
I started this blog as a way to share my passion for my savior, and to share our families story. My youngest daughter, Emma Grace is a transplant patient who is also autistic (Those “Pray for Emma” Buttons you see on your favorite blogs are for our Emma Grace). She has touched many of your lives in a very personal way, and we are continually amazed and blessed by your support.
I host Faith Lifts, a group blog for Christian Women and also am the co-founder of an amazing Chrisitian womens forum, Moms of Grace.
Ministry is my passion. My relationship with my savior is paramount in my life. My family blows me away every single moment.
So, what is the topic today at my party? Keep on reading!
I know it seems odd, to launch the Ultimate Blog Party with a crockpot Recipe swap- but hear me out- Ive been saving this announcement for a few weeks…..
My husband was approached with a rather large promotion about 2 weeks ago. We sat patiently (well, he did- I did major damage to my nails) and prayed that if this was the road we were to go down, that it would be an easy transition. He was formally offered the job last week, within the same company he currently works for (a company he has only been with since last June, mind you- Go Mark!). Downside- this job requires quite a bit of travel, so I am going to be left to provide dinners for my children (my husband is the cook, by choice,.. Thankfully he is very very good at it!). My children are concerned. Really, they are.
Those who know me in person (and quite a few of you do, including my parents *wave*) you know that I was not blessed with the ability to cook. People have always told me that it cant be as bad as I say it is- but ask Mark what happend when I tried to make Taco Suprise…. (the dog wouldnt even eat it, if that tells you anything!)
So, in honor of my husbands new job which requires travel, I am looking for crockpot recipe’s. Share your favorite (easy) recipes (my children are thanking you already), and while you are leaving a comment, congratulate my husband on a job well done!
Now go mingle! (Dont worry, I didnt cook anything!) And dont forget to add my feeds to your bloglines, I have some great posts lined up (and you just may see a picture of my final results with your recipes, which should be fun..sadly that could go either way!
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Making the party rounds. I really need to use my crockpot more. Have a great party week!
Great idea and Congrats!!!!!
This one’s sooo easy…
Get a package of chicken. I use the frozen chicken breasts you can buy in big packages at Wal-Mart, but you can also use fresh chicken. And I know kids tend to like drumsticks. If you do use the frozen breasts, it’s best to let them thaw overnight in your refrigerator.
Put chicken pieces in crock pot. Shake a packet of dry onion soup mix over the chicken, then add a can of cream soup…cream of chicken or cream of celery will do.
If you like, add potatoes and carrots.
Cook in the crockpot on high for about five hours.
You have a wonderful blog here! I’m bookmarking it to return later and read at length.
I’ve been here a time or two before, but it is nice to get to know you a little better.
Congrats to your husband!
My favorite crock pot recipe involves putting carrots and potatoes, cut into chunks, into the crock pot, sprinkling with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and minced onion, adding one can cream of chicken soup,topping with boneless chicken, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and minced onion and another can cream of chicken soup, and pour a little water (about one small plastic cup full) in. Cook on high about 4 1/2 hours (or on low longer — not sure how long though). It’s scrumptious. You can serve the meat and vegetables separately or stir them all up together, or add more water and make it like a stew.
I love my crockpot. I am a vegetarian and here is my favorite recipe-
Sloppy Lentils
Adapted from: Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson writes “Meaty lentils are featured in this vegetarian version of Sloppy Joes. Serve on toasted rolls with a fresh batch of coleslaw.”
1 medium-size yellow onion, chopped
1 small red or green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 1/2 cups dried brown lentils, picked over and rinsed
One 14.5-ounce can crushed tomatoes
3 cups water
2 tablespoons tamari or other soy sauce
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1 tablespoon light brown sugar or a natural sweetener
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Heata medium-sized non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and bell pepper, cover, and cook until softened, stirring often, about 5 minutes. Add the chili powder, stirring to coat.
Transfer the onion mixture to a 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker. Add the lentils, tomatoes, water, tamari, mustard, brown sugar, salt, and pepper to taste and stir to combine. Cover and cook on Low for 8 hours.
Serves: 4 to 6
Stop by for the party. Brought my receipe…
Hot Ham Sandwiches
3 lbs thinly sliced deli ham
2 cups apple juice
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
1 teaspoon paprika
kaiser rolls
Seperate ham slices and place in a slow cooker. In a bowl, combine the apple juice, brown sugar, relish, mustard and paprika. Pour over ham. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until heated through. Place 3-4 slices of ham on each roll. Serve with additional relish if desired.
Congrats on the promotion! I’m looking forward to reading all the recipes you’re getting here because I love to use my crock pot, but don’t have all that many recipes for it.
Happy cooking!
I had to laugh when you wrote about your Taco Surprise! I made a similar dish and got similar results! lol!! My husband is waaaaay better at cooking than I am…I’m eager to see some of these recipes so I’ll be back!
Great blog!
Congrats to your hubby!!!
Just stopping by for the blog party!
Fun! Can’t wait to look around (and NOT taste anything). I’ve been searching for some crockpot recipes, too. I’ve had that thing for 8 years and have used it, oh, about 5 times.
I’ll have to come back and leave a linky to some crockpot recipes I have posted. I LOVE my crockpot! Happy party-ing!
Congrats, Mark! And what a great idea, Heather, to get some crockpot recipes. I’m not posting at The Laundry Alternative these days, so I’ll just give you my most recent recipe here, for Chicken Soup.
For dinner to be served at 6:00 pm, start at 1:00 pm.
Fill crock with 6 or so cups of water.
Toss in 4-5 chicken breasts, bone or boneless, without the skin.
Add about 1-2 T. Italian seasonings
2-3 bay leaves
1 bullion cube per piece of chicken.
Cook on high.
One hour before serving, remove chicken from the bone and add shredded chicken back to crock. Add half a bag of frozen veggies.
Half hour before serving, add 1 box of noodles (use whole wheat for a healthier option).
Serve topped with Parmesan cheese and pepper, to taste!
Blessings,
Elisa
Nice to meet you! I’m here via the blog party.
I thought the picture of your daughter on your sidebar looked familiar and it all made sense when I read that she is the one who is on the buttons that I see on different websites. What a blessing that she is able to touch so many lives! I just came by for the party, but am glad that we met and will be stopping by more often!
Melissa
I have a great recipe that you can’t screw up, but its not a crock pot recipe. I have a large family, so you’d have to figure out sizes, lol. Well, I’ll try to size it for you.
Chicken poppy seed casserole
4 chicken breasts boiled and cut in bite size pieces.
1 can (not family size) of cream of chicken soup
1 8oz container sour cream
1 can cut green beans
mix all these together, set aside.
2 rolls of Ritz crackers crushed
1/2 stick of melted butter
2 Tbls poppy seeds
mix together.
spread half the cracker mix in the bottom of your casserole dish, then add the meat mixture. Top with remaining crackers. Cover with tinfoil, bake at 375 for 30 minutes, uncover and bake for 10 minutes.
Eat.
Really, even your hubby will beg for this one!
You can even cheat and use left over cooked chicken or buy already cooked and chopped chicken.
Congrats to Mark, and to you on your promotion to Cook! I love my crock pot, but I have very few recipes for it. I’ll get back to you with those.
Thanks for inviting us in. Have a great party week!
Hi Heather,
Congrats on your husband’s promotion! My husband travels a LOT and I think the hardest part is the first day or two when they come back home. You have your whole schedule worked out and then they come home and everything goes haywire!
I’m just now getting into my crockpot and I love it!
Have a great weekend!
Way to go! Congrats girlfriend! Sorry I’ve been a stranger, I’ve been writing on the pages of my heart lately, not my blog. Love ya much!!!
greetings all.. heather you’re a G-dsend with all your doing for the Blog Party. Just joined in and as an innkeeper, invite y’all for a bowl eggplant and tomato stew
http://fishcreekhouse.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-crock.html
GP in Montana
Thanks for inviting me to your party. Congrats to your hubbie! I thank you for not cooking!
That’s ok though, it looks like it’s a pot luck and your friends brought the goodies! That includes me, easy, easy. Just throw 6 pork chops (or any other number you want) two sliced up onions, 2 cans of beef broth and a packet of onion soup mix and let it cook for like 6 hours. Seriously delicious! You could then have some bread and steam some veggies in the microwave. I use my tupperware to do that, works great with a little water!
Best wishes and happy blogging!
Just stopping by for the blog party and I’ve got to tell you your a FANTASTIC hostess!
All the wonderful crock pot recipes are making me realy hungry!
Congratulations to your hubby!
I am not the cook in our family either, so I completely understand where you’re coming from!
Found you through The Ultimate Blog Party!
Oh my goodness…we might be related and not know it!! My DH has been the chief cook in my house for many many years. He just started traveling in January and I’m having to pick up the slack….one crockpot recipe I love is HAM. Buy the ham (without the bone in) and put it in your crock pot with about 2 cups of water. I put in a little mustard (maybe 1/4 cup) and about the same of brown sugar…just let it cook…for about 8 hours. It’s yummy!!
Also, I made Coq Au Vin last week that was wonderful..if you don’t mind cooking with wine…it has two cans of Cream of Mushroom Soup, Garlic (to your preference)…1 cup of white wine (there is a substitute if you don’t want to use wine…I just can’t remember what it is!) and 1/2 cup of water…bacon bits (about 1/4 cup…potatoes cut up (about 4), 1 pt. of mushrooms, 1/2 c. onion chopped…and green beans (fresh) about 1/2 lb. Put in the crock pot with three – four whole chicken breasts (or thighs) boneless. Let it cook for 8 hours…YUMMY!!
I wish you the best…hope you’ll drop by my party!!
Visiting via the Party. I use my crock to make soup most often, or to cook a roast. No real recipes, but the crock pot is an essential kitchen product. Darn, I forgot that on my list.
Hello! Just stopping by to join the party!
I love to use the cookbook Fix It and Forget It. It has many wonderful recipes in it!
Congrats to your hubby on the job promotion!
) Good luck with the crock pot recipes, I’m looking for some new ones myself.
Happy partying!
I just came across your blog today. Finally, a fellow Floridian! Don’t you just love living here? You have a great blog; I enjoyed reading it.
Congratulations on the big promotion! That is wonderful news. May the transition be easy for your whole family.
I signed the Linky – I’m not sure why – I hope it’s not for crockpot recipes because I don’t cook! Seriously. No, I did not have spiked punch at my last party stop…
Hugs,
DK
Hello Heather and WTG Mark!!!
The only thing I cook in a crockpot is stew and pot roasts. Good Luck Heather!
Great party! Congrats on the job promotion. Love sunny Florida. I have family in Springhill, Orlando, Bradenton and Tallahassee.
I meant to comment on this on Friday but hockey took over!
I use my crock pot for a really simple pot roast that is truly impossible to mess up (assuming you eat meat of course):
You will need:
A beef roast of some kind (fully thawed)
6 potatoes
About 20 baby carrots (or you can use the equivalent in fresh, peeled carrots, I just like to use the baby to save time)
1 white or yellow onion
3 bay leaves
2 packets of McCormick Brown Gravy mix (you can use about a cup of the same if you buy it in the bulk containers found at Costco or Sam’s)
You can add other veggies if you like. I usually make sweet corn as a side dish but if you wanted to add another veggie you can.
Rinse the roast and place it in the crock pot. Add salt and pepper to the top of the roast. No real amount here, just a fair amount sprinkled on top depending on your tastes. It can always be added when served.
Pour the brown gravy mix (dry) over the top of the roast and in to the crock pot
Add water until the roast is fully covered
Add bay leaves to water
Peel onion and place two or three layers in water (this is also all about personal preference, it’s just for flavor)
Cook on low heat for about 3-4 hours. (I usually start mine by 9 AM and do the next step at around noon or 1 PM)
At around mid-day peel and halve the potatoes and add them to the water around the roast.
After you add the potatoes, add the carrots and any other veggies you might like to add.
Cook another 3-4 hours. I usually serve dinner at 6 PM so I cook mine for about 9 hours.
When you get ready to serve it you just pull out the roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions and serve. The roast will most likely be falling apart making it super easy to serve and eat. Be careful when you pull it out that you don’t get burned if it starts to fall apart, sometimes pieces can fall off and splash you if you’re not careful.
Hope this helps! It’s not a real “recipe” just something my mom taught me.
I usually use another packet of the brown gravy mix to make a little pan of actual gravy as the gravy in with the roast is just for flavor, you don’t want to serve it up as gravy since it’s usually greasy flavored water so if you’re “gravy challenged” like me, it’s easy enough to use another packet.
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If you think you need to you can add water throughout the day, but I usually don’t have to, you just want the roast to be “mostly” covered for the entirety of the day.
If you have a large roasting pan you can make this same exact pot roast in the oven in a roasting pan. I cook it at 350 for the same amount of time. It’s almost exactly the same but it is a bit more tender from the crock pot.
Hello! I like your slow cooker idea. I will have to dig out my recipes and see what I find. Thanks for the invite via the party.
I have a couple of easy crock pot recipes at my blog filed under “Recipes” if you’d like to take a look sometime.
Glad to see you at the party, especially since you and Mark have something to celebrate! Congrats to you both on this new position!!
Great blog. I have visited before and must say that your writings have touched my heart. Thank you. Happy Blog Party!
I LOVE getting new crockpot recipes! Thanks for the resource!
Still praying for Emma. God has a special hand on that little girl!
And I love to cook, but unfortunately, I only just discovered the joy of slow cooking. I’ll be checking out the links that others have provided too…
Love the ice breaker and good luck with the cooking. There’s always Pizza Hut…
Hi there! This is the first time I have happened upon your blog. Slow cooking is a lifesaver for me. I am the mama of three active little boys, and am expecting #4 in August. It is sooooo nice to throw stuff in there and forget about it all day, then have a piping hot, lovely meal waiting for dinner. Have fun partying!
I left a linky to my favorite recipes I’ve posted on my Blog. I hope you try one and let me know if you like it!!
I’m late to the party, is there anything left to drink?
I’m a homebirthing, breastfeeding, babywearing, homeschooling, christian Mama in FW Indiana.
And I love this Party!
Come check me out too!
Beth
Well, welcome to the party! Congrats to your husband on a new job!
All my crock pot recipes are pretty boring I think, but if the kids allow me, I’ll try to post some to share!
Hello!
I’m mingling around meeting some great ppl!
How do you get to heaven?
Cyah around.
-AV
Late arrival to the party – but love to meet you all the same.
Just dropping in from the blog party to say HALLOO!! My crockpot recipes pretty much stink, but check out allrecipes or do a google search for some great ones! Come on over to The Estrogen Files sometime!
Yes, I’ve been here before, but wanted to say Hi! I too am not a big or talented cook . . but have been enjoying BIG SUCESS with LeAnne’s “Saving Dinner” cook books. Easy, tastful and what’s more she has the week menu and the shopping list all done for you. A cheat sheet to domesticity! I have a crock pot and have enjoyed it, but my hubby starts turning his nose at anything so “mixed” . . .*sigh* so I have no good recipe to send ya. Happy Party anyway!
I left a link to my blog that has all of my crockpot recipes on them…Enjoy!
Great Party
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