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Kitchen Tip: Make a Crockpot Dinner the Night Before

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | June 17th, 2008 | Category: Kitchen Tips | No Comments »

Kitchen Tip: Make a Crockpot Dinner the Night Before
Using a crockpot to cook your dinner all day while you’re busy or at work is a great time saver! However, what if you don’t have time to cut up the food, add the ingredients to the crockpot and otherwise put together the meal in the morning? [...]

Recipe: Crockpot Beef and Broccoli Dinner

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | May 16th, 2008 | Category: Recipes | 1 Comment »

Crockpot Beef and Broccoli is great to put on the meal planner for the day after a roast. It can be made with leftover meat from a roast, chopped into bite sized pieces, or from uncooked meat. (Roasts are an economical way to feed your family, as the per pound prices are considerably lower than [...]

Kitchen Tip: Crockpot Lids Stay Put!

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | May 13th, 2008 | Category: Kitchen Tips | No Comments »

Don’t lift the lid! According to the Reynolds company, it’s best to leave the lid on your crockpot / slow cooker the whole time you’re cooking. Each time you lift the lid to check or stir your food, it adds 20 minutes to the cooking time to compensate for the heat that escapes. If you [...]

Recipe: Crockpot Pork Roast with Lentils and Barley

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | May 2nd, 2008 | Category: Recipes | No Comments »

Inexpensive ingredients make this one of my favorites! Roasts are an economical way to feed your family, as the per pound prices are considerably lower than other cuts of meat. This recipe is for pork roast, but can be adapted to other meats as well. I really do use beef broth in my pork roast; [...]