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Either use pork tenderloin or small pork butt. 

 Place in slow cooker.  Add 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of molasses, and 1/4 cup of apple-cider vinegar. 

 SLOW Cook as usual - 4-6 hours...your meat will turn out so tender it will melt in your mouth. 

I used a small bone-in pork roast (I have a small crock pot) and added 1 bottle of Heinz chili sauce. Cooked on low about 4  hours and it was very tender and tasty. Made great pork sandwiches with the leftovers.

gardenfairy:

Either use pork tenderloin or small pork butt. 

 Place in slow cooker.  Add 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of molasses, and 1/4 cup of apple-cider vinegar. 

 SLOW Cook as usual - 4-6 hours...your meat will turn out so tender it will melt in your mouth. 

 

 

Thanks  TINALF7

This recipe was excellent and the meat is so tender.  Thank you for sharing.

I do chicken in my crockpot all the time.  I put some foil balls on the bottom so that the chicken sits on top of them, sprinkle the chicken breasts with Lawry's and any other seasoning I have.  Put it on low for the day and voila!  Its easy and yummy.  The chicken falls off the bone.  Sometimes I will throw BBQ sauce on it in the last hour.

Good idea for easy cleanup.  Wish I'd thought of that!

Use thick cut (boneless) pork chops. Put them in with your favorite veggies (I add a few dashes of garlic powder and lemon pepper ) and a broth and let them cook through the day. I use a vegatable flavored broth.

I probably use my slow cooker several times a week. Some of my husbands favorites are butterfly pork chops with a can of mushroom soup and a bit of milk. I serve the extra sauce over mash potatoes or rice.  Alse I do pork stew, with lots of root vegatables, yams, and other vegatables I have leftover in the house. Avoid white potatoes though, for some reason mine all broke down and didn't make for a nice stew. Water and a bit of cornstarch mix together and added in for the last half hour of cooking will give you a nice thick sauce great for dipping bread into.

My husband says he does not like slow cooked food.  I have several soups and chili that I cook in the slow cooker.  So far I have not found a really great recipe that will convince him that slow cooked food is ok.  We are newly "empty nesters" who need to lose a few pounds.  He likes the same things every night and I LOVE variety.  I have tried Chicken in the slow cooker but the breasts alwalys come out dry!  Does the foil balls keep the chicken from drying out? 

Go get you some stew meat, a can of cream of mushroom soup and an onion soup packet (low salt if you can find it).

Put all this in a crock pot and stir. Cook on low all day. Serve on mashed potatoes or egg noodles.

My husband loves this and it's so very easy.

Good Luck

Kake

Yes, I have done this with both a chuck roast and boneless pork roast.............I put in a large can of cream of mushroom soup and a very little water to rinse the can....................I add a small bag of baby carrots...............potato..........onion.........mushrooms (my husband & I love mushrooms)......Lipton's Beefy onion soup....a red pepper..............and I cook on high approx 1 hour and then I turn it down to medium...............

I usually start this approx 11:30 - noon..................depending on how many pounds of meat I am using................I will be doing this tomorrow.............will start at noon.............let it go for 1 hour on high and then turn down to medium........and I have a 2 1/2 lb boneless port roast...............it will be done by 5:30 or six...............

Is your chicken defrosted? I usually don't know what I am cooking until I am fixing to leave the house. I put a slow cooker bag in the crock pot, throw in my frozen breasts (get the ones from the bag in the freezer department that are deboned and deskinned) and I put the other stuff on top. My husband says he does not remember the chicken being dry. It does fall apart though, which works great when I am using his favorite recipe for White Chicken Chili from the October 2003 paperback. I don't use the hominy. I just add an extra can of beans.

White Chicken Chili  

1 1/2 pounds boneles skinless chicken thighs

2 cans ( ounces each) great northern beans, rinsed and drained

1 can ( ounces) white hominy, drained

1 envelope ( ounces) Old El Paso 40% less-sodium taco seasoning mix

1 can ( ounces) Old El Paso chopped green chiles

1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed reduced sodium cream of mushroom soup

Sour cream, if desired

Chopped green onions, if desired

1. Place chicken in slow cooker. Top with remaining ingredients except sour cream and onions.

2. Cover and cook on low heat setting 8 to 10 hours.

3. Before serving, stir gently to break up chicken pieces. Serve topped with sour cream and onions.

I put 4 large chicken breast in a lightly sprayed croc pot. Then cover the chicken with my homemade BBQ sause but a bottle of your favorite store bought works great also. Cook on low 4-6 hours and the chicken falls apart and is not dry!  You can serve them whole with the sauce or take out and shred with two forks and return to croc pot. This makes greatttttt sandwiches!!

when I put potatoes in the crock pot, I use any  small potatoes, leave skins on, wash well of course, they don't fall apart this way.

I use small potatoes in my slow cooker too!  New potatoes.  They always come out fine. Hope this helps

When making stews, etc, in my slow cooker, I use canned potatos instead of fresh ones, as they don't break down like regular potatos after being cooked a long time.  I also use canned potatos to make a quick potato salad when unexpected company arrives, etc.  You must drain and rinse them really good before using, however. 

White chili or chicken chili is great in the slow cooker.  I have made it in mine several times.  There are several different recipes for it so you can choose the one you like best.

I use our crock pot to make stew which my husband and children love. I just take some cut up meat (chicken, beef or pork - you can brown them first if you want), a jar of tomato sauce (any brand), some water, whatever veggies and seasonings you want and cover it and cook for several hours. I serve it with Italian bread and my family gobbles it all up.

I just tried the Chicken Cacciatore recipe found here on the BC site and it turned out great too.

Last night I cooked a pot roast in the crock pot. I just put water in the crock pot and mixed in some onion soup mix and seasonings and tossed in the roast and cooked it for a few hours and it comes out nice and moist. I actually cover the whole roast with the water/soup mix so that it keeps it's moisture. It's not leathery or chew it all. It's great!

I have a friend who BAKES in her crock pot and cooks practically every meal in it, including breakfast. I believe she has more then one pot too that she uses at the same time.  

 You can find lots of recipes on the 'net for crock pot cooking.

Good luck!

Kimberly