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By keeping a few o f your favorite recipes and ingredients on hand, yo u 'll never waste
tim e searching fo r a meal idea. Prepare your slow cooker the night before and refrigerate,
o r sim ply toss every thing in first thing in the m orning. Just plug it in and forget about
it! Let it cook all day long and yo u 'll have a delicious meal by evening.
T o increase your 'S low Cooker Sunday' selections the Portland Observer w ill include
a new recipe to add to your collection.
Start a Tradition:
Slow Cooker
Sundays!
Slow Cooker Tips
Slow Cookers: Still Hot!
The fo llo w in g helpful hints w ill help make sure yo u r slow cooker Sunday is a successful one:
• No frozen meats. A lw ays defrost meats and poultry before placing them in a slow cooker.
C om bining unbelievable convenience and good home
cooking, these wondrous appliances are enjoying re
newed popularity in kitchens around the w orld.
T hrow some ingredients in the pot, turrr it on, and
come home at the end o f the day to a hearty homemade
supper. Here are some hints fo r getting prem ium results
• Smaller chunks. Cut whole chickens and large pieces o f meat into smaller chunks to ensure thorough cooking.
• Layer your ingredients. Vegetables should be placed in the bottom and up the sides o f the pot, then layer in the meat
on top.
• F ill 'er up. It's best to fill a slow cooker to at least one-half and no more than three-fourths fu ll.
• Keep the lid on. Each time you lift the lid yo u 'll lengthen the cooking time, this can be anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes.
from your slow cooker every time.
Convert Your Favorites
You can adapt many con ventional recipes f o r the slow cooker. Any oven
o r stove top recipe that lias some moisture in it—whether water, broth,
wine, sauce, o r canned soup--should w ork b e autifully in y o u r fa v o rite
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appliance: ju s t keep these things in m ind:
• Cut all liq u id amounts in h a lf when adjusting fo r the slow cooker.
Ingredients for life.
• The lo w heat setting is approxim ately 200 degrees F(95 degrees C ) and
high heat is about 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• For every hour you'd cook something in the oven o r on the stove, allow
8 hours on lo w o r 4 hours on high. (W hen in doubt, turn it on low and
leave it all day o r overnight.)
B o n e le s s
Slow Cooker
Roast Pork
with Fruit
Manor House Boneless
Skinless Chicken Breast
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dinner ready when you walk in the door after a
hectic day. ”
Boneless
Ranchers Reserve
Angus Boneless Beef Loin
Hew York Strip Sleak
SAVE no to $5 22 lb
Ingredients:
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• I boneless-pork loin roast (2 lbs.)
• 1 8-oz. package dried pears o r dried plums (1 1/2 cups)
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1/2 cup
1/2 tsp.
1/2 tsp.
1/4 tsp.
apple ju ice
salt
ground nutmeg
ground cinnamon
Fresh W h ole
Cooked D ungeness
Crab
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S lic e d R ib H a lf
Directions:
Bone-in. Fresh All natural
with no added ingredients
1. In a 4 to 5-quart slow cooker; place onion on bottom , next the pork;
top w ith fruit.
2. In a small bow l; m ix rem aining ingredients; pour over fruit.
3. Cover; cook on L O W heat setting 7- 9 hours or u n til pork is tender.
VVeuther perm itting
SAVE up to $4 02 lb
Limit 2.
SAVE up lo $1.52 lb
Serve fru it m ixture over pork
Slow Cooker
Chocolate Mocha
Pudding Cake
C h e rr ie s
SAVE up Io $5 111b
Texas R uby R ed
G r a p e fr u its
B ra e b u rn or Fuji
A pples
Club Pfice 33c ea
SAVE up lo 66c ea
SAVE up to 90c lb
"It is truly amazing what you
can create in a slow cooker. ”
Ingredients:
• C ooking Spray o r butter fo r pot
• 1 cup all purpose flo u r
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoon plus 1/4 cup un
sweetened cocoa powder (divided
use)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
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• l/2 c u p m ilk
• 3 tablespoon butter, melted and
cooled
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup bittersw eet chocolate
chips
• 3/4 cup packed golden brown
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sugar
• 1 2/3 cup hot coffee o r hot water
Directions:
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w ith butter.
2. In a m ixin g bow l, thoroughly stir together flo u r, granulated sugar, 3
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tablespoons o f the cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Stir in the m ilk,
melted butter, vanilla and chocolate chips. Spread this m ixture over the
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bottom o f your slow cooker.
3. In another bowl, m ix together brown sugar and remaining l/4cupcocoa
powder. S prinkle cocoa m ixture over the batter, but do not stir it in. Pour
the coffee evenly over all. Again, do not stir.
4. Cover and cook on high heat fo r I 3 /4 to 2 h o u rso ru n tila te ste rin se rte d
in the top portion o f the cake comes out clean. The inside should be hot
and simi lar to fudge sauce. Spoon cake and sauce out o f slow cooker and
arrange next to o r under a very cold scoop o f ice cream. O r i f you prefer,
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the last hour, shred the meat w ith tw o forks - i f it does not shred easily,
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