As the weather has been cooling off, Chris & I have started a new habit that we are both loving…making at least one meal a week in our slow cooker! It is so awesome to throw a few ingredients together in the morning, turn it on low and have the house smell amazing when you get home. We can eat dinner by 5:30 and have the whole evening ahead of us. Anyway, I’ve been loving it so much that I decided to share the recipes we’ve tried…without further ado…

1. Butternut Squash Soup: This one isn’t the fastest to put together because you have to bake the squash ahead of time & blend it after it has cooled…but it was worth the extra effort. The soup was creamy & delicious!
2. Pot Roast: We added carrots & potatoes to the pot with the roast and we thought the peppercorn was too spicy. I think we will use one of the other recommendations next time…and there will be a next time because this was tasty & there were lots of leftovers.
3. Salsa Chicken & Black Bean Soup: This was our first attempt at using dried beans instead of canned. It turned out really well!
4. Sweet Potato Chili: We have more sweet potatoes than I know what to do with so that was the main ingredient search I did the past couple weeks. This chili was good & it was very thick which was a nice change.
5. Latin Chicken: This recipe came from Allrecipes.com and again required some prep (browning the chicken) but Chris took care of that while I did other prep work and it all came together nicely. We chose this dish for a Saturday because it only needs to cook about 4 hours. My only complaint here is that I don’t really like finding bones in my meal. I know that’s a little thing, but it’s gross to me to pick bones out of the food. Otherwise, it tasted good over rice and as a tortilla filling!
6. Chicken Tacos: These were VERY yummy! I doubled the whole recipe except the water and also added one Taco Seasoning packet. Chris said he would have liked more flavor, but I think the rest of us liked it as it was. Next time I’ll dump the seasoning directly on the chicken before adding the tomatoes, beans and corn but otherwise, yum! Also, we didn’t need forks to shred the meat. Just stirring everything together and chopping the chicken up with the spoon worked great.

So, as you can see - our crock pot has been working overtime. Thanks to the “A Year of Slow Cooking” blog, I don’t think we’ll stop anytime soon either! If anyone else has favorite slow cooker recipes or sites, leave them in the comments!

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