I love my crock pot! So easy and yummy!

[Hope]

I love using my crock pot. In the early afternoon, I love to throw in a venison roast or an elk roast... use about a cup of water - a little salt/pepper - peel a few potatos and carrots... cut up a small onion. Let it cook while I do what I need to do around the house. It will cook for about 4-5 hours on high. You do not need to do anything to it while it cooks. Come dinner time, a super dinner that seems like it must have taken so much effort... but, little do they know. ;)

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The most wild, crazy, shootin' gal in Mid-Michigan! :)

[Salmonsmoker]

Hope,

Back on 10/5 I posted a "Crock-pot Venison Steak" recipe that you might look at. I agree, the crock-pot is excellent. However, my preferrence is still the Dutch Oven. Basically, I like good tasting food so that is what I do.

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[Hope]

I think I need a dutch oven. :) I have never tried anything made from the dutch oven. Hey, lets all have a get together - we can all bring a dish to pass. :D

[Steve]

The crock pot is going almost 24 hours a day when we are at deer camp. Nothing like it. Plug it in when you get up. Have a nice meal when you get in after hunting.

[Salmonsmoker]

Our deer camp is somewhat more primitive that having a place to plug in a crock-pot. We do have a gas stove that is used for cooking and heating.

I think that the Dutch Oven used on very low heat, may have been a predicessor to the Crock Pot. When By leaving our gas stove on pilot and placing the Dutch Oven on the top grate, it will slowly cook over a 6 to10 hour period - accomplishes the same thing as a slow-cooking Crock-pot.

However, a crock pot is good for when we want to come home to a hot dinner after being out x-c skiing all day - or when coming home from work.

Basically, the goal is excellent food - however it is prepared. We have some wild game recipe's that are supurb - and prepared totally in the Micro.

That is what is so unique about this web site. It is a place for all of us to share our unique way of doing our favorite outdoor activities.

If you've got some particualr recipe's that are vavorites, please share them with us.

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[Salmonsmoker]

Making current

Salmonsmoker

[tangleknot]

We cooked a roast in our crockpot(a biggie) yesterday and it was excellent. We started off by putting some slits in the roast and stuffing some garlic in. Then, we sprinkled a 1/2 packet of beef seasoning from Ramin noodles on top. We then packed it with red potatoes, lots of onions, baby carrots, and about 2 cups of water. Cooked it on low for about 7 hours and enjoyed it when we returned from hunting.

I was prepared to use the carving knife but it wasn't necessary it was so tender. Used a little apple butter BBQ sauce for dipping! :corkysm55

[Dick Graves]

Try adding Campbells Golden Mushroom soup instead of water. Cooked a venison roast with all the goodies yesterday, the soup adds a pretty unique flavor, unfortunately when you can find it, it is about $1.49 per can. :rant:

No knife needed, just fell apart. :)

I also use CGMS with venison stew. It is also excellent with elk roast's, etc. :p

[JandinA2]

I've only prepared a beef roast since i live on a beef farm and all the deer we take we make into steaks, ground, and jerky...when i cook the beef roast i just throw it in the crock with a can of coke (the acid tenderizes the meat and keeps it juicy) can you do the same thing with venison? i have heard to place bacon strips on top of a venison roast too

[RIVERAT]

:bouncy: :bouncy:I make steaks and chops in my crock pot and my kids love it!!:corkysm55 I cook it for about an hour first with a little water. Then I drain it. Then I add LOTS of BBQ sauce, and cook some more!!

[link523]

i put sauerkraut and Italian sausage in mine and let it stink up the whole house the wife just loves it:rant: but it taste good to me!!!

[MI_Bowhunter]

use beer instead of water! Crockpots are friggen awesome I do agree. I fact I think I will do a roast this weekend, thanks for the idea.

[Frantz]

I have been hooked on these cheaper cuts, I think it was called a London Broil, I will check tomorrow when I pick one up. Anyhow, I brown it good and cook it with the base veggies, carrots, celery, onion, garlic and potatos. When it gets to the poing of almost falling apart, I make a little gravy up from the sauve and make a little plate of it and set the rest aside to cool. The next day or later in the night depending on how things go, I add a little BBQ sauce to the meat and some balsomic vinegar and hot sauce and toss it on a bun and use up the rest that way, MMmmmm good stuff.

[efriesner]

Dutch ovens are great, I've been using one since I was in Boy Scouts.

One day I was making some apple cabbler in the dutch over, dug a hole in the ground and put coals on the bottom and on the lid, put the dirt over that and went hunting. Didn't see anything until I got back to camp and a nice 5 point buck was digging at the ground where my dutch oven was.

I love my slow cooker as well, being a single guy, I use it all of the time.

[InTheRiver]

We cooked a roast in our crockpot(a biggie) yesterday and it was excellent. We started off by putting some slits in the roast and stuffing some garlic in. Then, we sprinkled a 1/2 packet of beef seasoning from Ramin noodles on top. We then packed it with red potatoes, lots of onions, baby carrots, and about 2 cups of water. Cooked it on low for about 7 hours and enjoyed it when we returned from hunting.

I was prepared to use the carving knife but it wasn't necessary it was so tender. Used a little apple butter BBQ sauce for dipping! :corkysm55

Thats funny ! I add a whole packet to the mix:lol: