Crockpot Chicken

1. by kathome

Fall Apart Chicken

This is the easiest thing you ever made and it sure is good.

1 Whole chicken (I usually buy an Oven Stuffer Roaster but if you want smaller then get a fryer)

Salt & Pepper

Yeah, that's it, although I grow Rosemary in the yard and love the taste so I mince up a bunch and throw that on too)

Wash the chicken and pat dry with paper towels. sprinkle inside and out with a pretty generous amount of salt and pepper (and rosemary if you want it) Put that bird in your slow cooker RAW and with NO WATER AT ALL. Put on the lid, turn the cooker to low and in about 6-7 hours you will have some mighty fine chicken.

I always thicken the amazing amount of juices that come out of the chicken for gravy, but it can also be used for stock.

Also makes GREAT cold chicken sandwiches the next day.

Oh, and by the way, I call it "Fall Apart Chicken" because it does exactly that, so be careful taking it out of the cooker.

This is great to do in the AM before work because there's no browning to take up time. I can plug it in and when I walk in the door from work the house smells like my make believe cook has been at it all day. I think just about every lady in my office has tried it and it's now a standard at their house's too.

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Raw Apple Cake Recipe

This is a family favorite at the holidays. It is a tasty alternative to traditional fruit cake. The soaked apples in the baking soda and water solution serve as leavening. When the baked cakes are frozen for a couple of weeks before serving it, the flavors meld and apples turn the prettiest red.

First, chop 1and 1/2 cups Red Delicious apples and place into soaking solution of 2 level teaspoons baking soda and 6 tablespoons of water for at least an hour--longer is better. Meanwhile, assemble the following ingredients into 2 bowls--one for wet ingredients, the bigger bowl is for the dry ingredients.

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1 egg
1/2 cup veg oil
1 cup walnuts or pecans
1 cup dark raisins

Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients JUST until combined. You may fold in your raisins and nuts at the last, or add them into the dry ingredients. The cake batter will be fairly stiff, but it makes 2 large loaves of this nut bread/cake. Grease and flour your selected pans and place cake batter into them; bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Do not open oven door for the first 20 minutes of baking as the cakes will fall if opened any sooner. The fruit in this cake will turn a bright red when kept in the freezer at least 2-3 weeks before serving--this is why our family loves them so much over the holidays! I grew up with them, literally.

Now, for those who watch sugars, calories, etc, I have just made a batch using stevia or Sucralose sugar substitute--In place of the sugar, measure 1 cup of your chosen sugar substitute to the dry ingredients, and add 1/2 cup of natural, unsweetened applesauce to this mixture before preparing batter in pans to bake them. The applesauce adds the needed moisture to keep the cakes in proper texture. I tried making them with stevia, but my results were a drier cake.

I hope you enjoy making these--if you bake them in mini bundt pans, they are pretty to give at holiday time.

Tips: 

Peel the apples and dice them medium small. Sassy   Ronda    Reply   Quote Reply
#   ^   Oct 16, 11 21:29:43
SassySewer53 Joined: Jan 4, 10 Messages: 340 Feedback: 0/0.0% Location: Phoenix, AZ	Red Delicious works in this recipe. The other kinds of apples do not seem to work the redness or taste very well. Ronda

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Cinnamon Swirl Bread

Cinnamon-Swirl Bread

1 1/3 c. granulated sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon * McCormick's Saigon Cinnamon. It smells like a bakery in a jar
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg (beaten)
1 c. milk
1/3 c. vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 350º. Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Mix 1/3 c. sugar and cinnamon; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and remaining sugar. Combine egg, milk, and oil; add to flour mixture. Stir by hand just until moistened. Pour half the batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle with half the cinnamon mixture. Repeat with remaining batter and cinnamon mixture. Draw a knife through batter to marble.

Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool. Wrap and store bread overnight before slicing.
It never lasts long enough to store over night at my house!

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Perfect Chocolate Brownies

these have that crispy crust on top just like boxed brownies, but they are SO much tastier.

Perfect Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients:
3/4 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (I left these out, obviously)

1. Preheat oven to 350 ° F
2. Line a 9 x 13 pan with non-stick foil OR line it with regular foil and butter the foil.
3. Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat, then stir in cocoa.
4. Remove from heat.
5. Mix in sugar and vanilla then mix in eggs one at a time.
6. Stir in remaining ingredients then stir in nuts if using them.
7. Bake for 30 minutes.
8. Cool completely before cutting into 2x2" squares.

 

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