One Pot Meals
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My wife is so good at crockpot meals it always amazes me. She's also so good to me...when I'm on the water she almost always has something hot ready for me when I get home. On Sunday I got home to a crockpot full of cheeseburger soup that she kinda just threw together loosely based on some pinterest recipes. That one was super good, and very filling. There's just something about a hot soup in the crockpot that is amazing after a day on the water.
My favorite crockpot meal is a ~3# chuck roast and a bunch of small red or yellow potatoes. Add a few shakes of Larry’s seasoned salt and then slather it all with a can of condensed cream of celery soup (without adding the can of water) and let it cook on low for about 8 hours. Hits the spot at the end of a cold day.
More adventurous types can add whole onions and carrots but I like my plain simple pot roast.
Andy
More adventurous types can add whole onions and carrots but I like my plain simple pot roast.
Andy
Chili. Huge pot. Get's better on the second and third days.
Hard to beat pot roast, no matter how you cook it.
Chuck roast gets a lot of use here.
Stew beef, halved mini red and white potatoes, beef stock *(forgot) sliced carrots*, flour for thickening, Guinness, Dijon mustard, couple of bay leaves. Mrs Brian is sensitive to alliums (onions, garlic, so we just) salt & pepper to taste. Crockpot for minimum 6 hours.
I've had to cut waaay back on salt in the last 6 months so we use the no-salt stock. Mrs Brian adds her own salt as necessary, and I add a splash of basalmic vinegar, and a Mediterranean herb blend containing orange peel.
It also tastes even better reheated.
I've had to cut waaay back on salt in the last 6 months so we use the no-salt stock. Mrs Brian adds her own salt as necessary, and I add a splash of basalmic vinegar, and a Mediterranean herb blend containing orange peel.
It also tastes even better reheated.
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I made a big pot of andouille sausage bean soup two days ago in my 6 -1/2 quart Dutch oven, @stevesaville's recipe. Lots of leftovers, freezes well.
I do some good stuff with an Instant Pot these days.
Hawaii style Kalua pork + cabbage
Pork carnitas
Veggie soup - great way to clean out the fridge
Hawaii style Kalua pork + cabbage
Pork carnitas
Veggie soup - great way to clean out the fridge
Beans and ham hocks or bacon in the Instantpot. Add the usual suspects, carrot, onion, garlic, celery, chili powder and other seasonings. No soaking the beans, just dump it all in the pot and an hour later it is like it cooked all night in a crock pot. The Instantpot runs off of the Jackery in the Casa and cleanup is minimal.
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Smolt
As a child I hated split pea and ham soup….now I can’t imagine anything tasting so good. I add white sweet potato and double the onion and celery, but honestly any recipe is good.
Oh man, same here. My mom made huge pots of it when I was a kid, usually after Christmas or Easter where we had leftover ham, and while I didn't HATE it, I was always disappointed to get home from school and see that huge pot on the stove. I knew it meant we'd be eating it for the next week.
Fast forward a few years to my early adulthood and I absolutely fell in love and to this day it is one of my favorite foods in the world.
These days... anytime I get a big pot of soup going, I'm happy we're eating it for the next week...currently working on a big pot of 15 bean soup done mexican style with chorizo and smoked chiles.
It's the bomb...in more ways than one.
It's the bomb...in more ways than one.
If you can find these, give them a try in your soups.
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All I ever use anymore for ham hocks and beans. Like eating butter.
Mayocoba Bean
Heirloom Beans. A classic bean originally from Peru, now quite at home in our California beanfields, the Mayocoba is also known as Canario or Peruano.
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ThomasM
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I do something similar to the above, a simplified beef bourguinon.
Brown the meat
Add onions
Add a whole bottle of cheap red wine
Add potatoes and carrots when the meat is tender
Season to taste
To add variety to the leftovers, a brick of Japanese curry mix and rice turns it into something quite different.
Brown the meat
Add onions
Add a whole bottle of cheap red wine
Add potatoes and carrots when the meat is tender
Season to taste
To add variety to the leftovers, a brick of Japanese curry mix and rice turns it into something quite different.
Wow, this is tough. I make tons of one pot meals both at home and in camp. Several pasta dishes (just add more liquid and add uncooked pasta directly into pot with other ingredients).
The toughest part is I really don't have a name or set recipe. Drives my wife nuts that I can look in fridge/freezer, then the pantry, and assemble a concoction that's not only edible, but something she loves.
The toughest part is I really don't have a name or set recipe. Drives my wife nuts that I can look in fridge/freezer, then the pantry, and assemble a concoction that's not only edible, but something she loves.
