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[nolly]

I recently picked up a small, inexpensive crockpot. It's got multiple heat settings and a removable crock; it's not just a dip warmer. The problem is, all the recipes I can find are for much larger crockpots, and I don't have a good enough feel for what's right to be comfortable tweaking them for my 1.5 quart baby crockpot. Are there rules of thumb about liquid proportions? Other things I should know? Right now, I really want things more like "dump X amount of canned soup, Y amount of rice, and a chicken breast, set on low for N hours, eat"; I can get fancy later. WHat I don't know is reasonable values for X, Y, and N, and if that's likely to be an adequate recipe, or if i needs water/milk, or...?

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[nolly.livejournal.com]

It might clarify things if I point out that I mostly don't like soup as a main dish. SO making soup is not my goal, but making things that use cream of $FOO as an ingredient is A-OK by me, because I've had many tasty dishes like that.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

is okay, weve done lots of roasts, pastas, even bread.

I guess i'm trying to get you to think of it less as a microwave type of arrangement and more as a broadening of horizons- you can do all sorts of scratch stuff easily- even tamales and chili and mexican stews. Rice dishes are cake.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I know it can be used for all of that. But firstly, I need to crawl before I walk -- much less run -- and secondly, right now, I don't have time or energy for anything that requires a lot of prep or clean-up. 5 minutes in the morning is pushing it; I could maybe manage a little more in set-up the night before once in a while. The energy I have needs to go towards laundry and liutterboxes and general home maintenance. That's the current state of my health, and there's not a lot I can do about it.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

I totally understand that.