Someone has a crock-pot.

I never had one, so I am not familiar with how it can be utilized. He tends to use it for one recipe; he has a very nice recipe for meatballs with pineapple bits. 

Once upon a time, Maddog (the dear) from A Mad Dog in the City sent me a recipe for Spaghetti pie, which is made in a crock-pot. This worked well, so it inspired me to do more. I like to cook, and I like to use the things around the house. I have an itch to learn what can be done with a crock-pot.   

Last week I succumbed to one of the items you see at eye level while waiting for the clerk to ring up your groceries. Between the candies and the gossip magazines was a little book titled “Crock Pot cooking made simple”. It guaranteed easy to make dishes. I bought it on impulse. To justify such folly, I vowed to make at least a few recipes from the booklet.  

Each recipe calls for only a handful of items – some vegetables, some meat, and some additives. You put it all in layers, turn on the heat to ‘low’, go to work and voila! You return home at the end of the day to supper.  

It makes me giddy to have something heating/turned on at home while I am away. I fear that I will come home not to a supper but a burned down house. 

The first dish was a disappointment. It sounded good – chicken with sweet potatoes – but the honey mustard sauce it called for was a nauseated shade of green/yellow. It looked like bile. The chicken and sweet potatoes were overcooked – I got home late so they cooked longer than indicated.  

Anyone out there have a fabulous crock-pot recipe?   

Please share and I will try to make it.