Place chicken pieces in a crockpot and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Combine preserves, BBQ sauce, onion and soy sauce and pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours. Add water chestnuts and green pepper slices for the final hour. Serve over hot cooked rice.

Roast Meat Hoagies
1 large roast (venison, etc.)
2 beef boullion cubes
1 onion, minced
2 cans mushrooms stems and pieces, drained
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cheddar cheese soup
American, Provolone,Swiss or Cheddar Cheese slices
about 20 Hoagie rolls

Place roast in the crockpot/slowcooker with boullion cubes, 1/2 cup water, and onion. Cook on low 6-8 hours or high 3-4 hours. Remove roast from crockpot, drain liquid. Using two forks, shred the meat and return to slowcooker.
Add mushrooms and soups (do not dilute!), stir well and replace lid.Turn crockpot to high for 15 minutes or until everything is heated through.Place a slice or two of cheese on sliced hoagie bun, top with roasted meat mixture and serve.

Easy Slow Cooker Dinner
4 large potatoes, cut into chunks
1 onion, diced
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into cubes
1 tsp. seasoning salt
1 can cream of mushroom soup.

Lightly season chicken with seasoning salt. Combine chicken, potatoes, and onion in slow cooker. Top with soup. Cook 6-8 hours on low, adding water if necessary.
Serve over hot white rice.

“Just like Mom’s” Roast Beef
beef roast
2 bags “stew mix vegetables” (carrots, potatoes, celery and pearl onions)
1 can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup italian dressing

In the crockpot, mix together the tomato sauce, water and italian dressing. Roll the roast in the tomato mixture until it’s coated. Turn Crockpot on high for 1 hour. After 1 hour, turn crockpot to low, add stew mix veggies and cook on low 6 hours until meat is cooked through and vegetables are tender.

Put raw skinless chicken legs and/or thighs in the crock pot along with one finely chopped onion. In a large bowl, mix one can of cranberry sauce (I prefer the berry kind, not the jelled, but that’s up to you, they are both good!) with 2 tbsp dijon mustard, 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp ginger. Pour the cranberry mixture over the chicken, turn the pot on low and cook all day. Remove chicken to a platter, degrease the gravy, make a slurry of 1 tsp corn starch and 2 tbsp water and mix it in with the gravy. Turn pot on high and cook until gravy thickens. Serve with rice or mashed potatoes, it’s really tasty!

To lower the fat, you can use skinless, boneless chicken breasts, but they cook MUCH faster…if you cooked them all day it would taste like yummy shoe leather.

We usually buy a small precooked ham. In the morning before going to work, stick it in the slow cooker, add about a cup of brown sugar and a bottle of beer. Set it on low and when you get home from work, you’ll have a nice juicy tender ham ready for dinner.

Slow cookers are awesome because all you have to do is throw all your ingredients in there and you don’t have to worry about it. You’re not going to spend your work day stressing about what to make for dinner and how long it will take.