"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
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> : "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
> : ...
> : > Julie Bove wrote:
> : >> Now what shall I make with it? What are your favorite things to do
> : >> with a crockpot? I like to make soup. I just ordered some new soup
> : >> mugs that are unbreakable. We have three different kinds because we
> : >> keep breaking them.
> : >
> : > I use mine almost entirely for soups and stews. I love lamb shank stew
> and
> : > lentil soup best.
>
> : Thanks! Lamb must be cheap there. Here it costs about a dollar a bite
> so
> : not something I buy much of. Occasionally I will let Angela have a lamb
> : kebob from the store, but husband won't eat it and not something I fancy
> : trying.
>
> : I like lentil soup, but nobody else in the family does. They won't eat
> bean
> : soup either. So I just go without or on a rare occasion get something
> in a
> : can.
> You can make nice chicken soup in th crock pot or soup stocks(chicken,
> beef, veal, etc) Just load it up loslly with the meaty bones add soms
> onion and carrot and celery, some salt and pepper and then add water to
> the top(it will fill all the interstices between the bones and veggies) .
> Start on high to get it hot fast and then turn it down to low and let it
> go all day or all night.

I make chicken soup but never with bones. I can't eat anything with bones
in it and if I had to pick the bones out, I could never eat it.
>
> This makes a excellent bse for all kinds of other soups. If you like, yu
> can roast the bones or chicken in pieces in a hot oven until browned
> before crockpotting the stock. Freeze whar you don't need for later quick
> soups.

I don't like to freeze things wither.
>
> I also used to make a dish years ago when I was going to school some
> nights that I could leave for my husbad to just serve out to himself aand
> the kids. I cana't find the exact recipe, but it was beef potting roast,
> saurkraut and some kind of tomato, either canned or ketchup, probably the
> former. It was good and kind of like a quick and dirty saubraten. I am
> sure you would want some onions, freshly ground black pepper and maaybe
> some garlic(it never hurts except in desseert:-) You could probably also
> put in some carrots to use as a vegetable.

I don't think anyone here would eat sauerkraut, but thanks!