Slow-Cooker Recipes You Cook Once and Can Eat Twice

By Judith Finlayson, "Slow Food, Fast: Cook once, eat twice with these 8 tasty, time-saving recipes," January/February 2011

Time-saving and money-saving crock pot recipes

Cook Once-Eat Twice Crock Pot Recipes
Slow-Cooked Brisket in Onion Gravy
Brisket Sloppy Joes
Wine & Tomato Braised Chicken
Braised Chicken Gumbo
Eggplant & Chickpea Stew
Eggplant & Chickpea Baked Pasta
Pulled Pork with Caramelized Onions
Pulled-Pork Torta

More Slow-Cooker Recipes
Easy Slow-Cooker Soups and Stews
Healthy Crock Pot Chicken Recipes and Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes
Healthy Beef Crock Pot Recipes and Healthy Beef Slow Cooker Recipes

Though I love to cook, there are days when I’m so busy that all I want is a quick solution to dinner. Enter the slow cooker: it’s the best time-management tool any cook can have. A slow cooker allows me to prep ingredients for a recipe when it fits my schedule, then throw everything in the slow cooker, go out to work or run errands, and when I get home I don’t have to start fussing with dinner—the work’s already done.

You can also double the time-saving power of the slow cooker by using it to cook big batches of food. Sure, you can eat the leftovers later in the week. But even better, you can easily transform those leftovers into a totally different meal the next night by adding a few fresh ingredients or different seasonings.

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