Crockpot!

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com

This blog is awesome. I have tried several things. All good. I love my crockpot. It's such an easy way to cook.

Beef with Peperchinis

This is Shima's recipe and it's so good and easy.

3-4 pound beef bottom round roast
1 cup of water
1 1/2 packet of Italian seasoning mix

Cook the above in a crockpot for about 6 or so hours.

Chop one glass bottle of pepperchinis (not the bottle, the pepperchinis) and add the pepperchinis. Shred the beef with a fork and then cook for another 1.5 hours or so.

Serve in mini sandwiches with havarti or cheddar cheese, tomatoe slices and good dinner rolls or baguettes. (The best is with the Great Harvest white rolls)

Crockpot Chicken with Rice

This recipe is for Shauna (the cream cheese/chicken of mushroom soup girl), although I’m sure you have this one if the two ingredients you use the most are the above! This is an easy crockpot recipe and one of my family’s FAVORITES!!!

You will need:
1 package cream cheese
1 package Italian seasoning (the kind that you use to make salad dressing – but just use the spices. DO NOT make the dressing.)
1 can cream of chicken soup
4-5 pieces of thawed chicken breasts
salt/pepper
Put chicken in crockpot. Salt and pepper chicken. Mix together cream cheese, Italian seasoning spices, and can of cream of chicken soup with mixer. Add cream cheese/soup mixture on top of chicken. Cook in crockpot on low for about 5 hours. Serve over brown rice.

Gooshteh Loobia

This is my favorite Iranian dish although they don't make it all over Iran. It's from my dad's hometown on the Iran/Iraq border and it's generally poor people food, but it's so good and so easy. Sorry I don't have exact measurements, but you really can't mess this one up.

You need:

3 skinless chicken drumsticks
1 yellow onion
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoons of pasta sauce or tomato sauce
1 package of great northern beans
salt


So you can do this in a crockpot the night before you want to eat it or in the morning and you can eat it at night.

Put a package of beans and the chicken and onion (cut in quarters) into the crockpot with the turmeric and salt (about 2 teaspoons-but make sure to taste it to make sure it's not too salty). Add water--about 2 or three inches above the food. Turn the crockpot on for about 6-8 hours on high and then a little bit before you eat it, put in the tomato or pasta sauce (for coloring and flavor).

We eat this with cinnamon (just put some cinnamon on top) and a little bit of yogurt on the side. You can serve with rice--I will post a recipe of fancy Iranian rice later, but you can just cook up some plain white basmati rice or any other rice. It's yummy.