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Beef Barbecue

Cubed beef simmered two hours in tomato soup, Worcestershire and sugar until it stirs apart into a sandwich filling.

Brisket

Mustard-coated brisket goes into the crockpot dry under a package of onion soup mix and cooks ten hours until it shreds.

Calico Beans

Ground beef, bacon and three kinds of beans baked in a sweet-and-sour brown sugar and catsup sauce.

Chili

Ground beef browned with brown sugar, then slow-cooked four to eight hours with chili beans, tomato juice and tomato soup.

Crockpot Chicken Sandwiches

Chicken slow-cooked six hours with cream cheese and ranch mix, shredded, then covered with cheddar and bacon for buns.

Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup

Browned chicken thighs and a foil-wrapped breast cook for hours in the slow cooker; noodles and peas are stirred in at the end.

Oven-Roasted Tomato and Garlic Soup

Halved plum tomatoes brushed with garlic and olive oil and dried in a 200-degree oven for eight hours.

Reuben Dip

Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss and Thousand Island melted into cream cheese in the crock pot, scooped up with pumpernickel.

Spinach Dip

Crock pot dip built on jarred Alfredo sauce with artichokes, frozen spinach, mozzarella, parmesan and cream cheese.

Taco Soup

Eight cans, two seasoning packets and a cup of broth stirred together and cooked twenty minutes on the stove or all afternoon in a crock pot.

“I doubled the recipe with one rotisserie chicken, cubed.”

White Chili

Shredded chicken simmered with white beans, green chilies, cumin and cayenne, then finished with Monterey jack and sour cream.