Cold days make a long cooking project sound appealing until there is still chopping, stirring, and cleanup waiting at dinnertime. These 17 slow cooker recipes lean on long, mostly hands-off cooking for soups, roasts, shredded meats, meatballs, and full casseroles.
Slow Cooker Italian Wedding Soup
A steaming bowl is hard to beat when the temperature drops, and Slow Cooker Italian Wedding Soup turns meatballs, carrots, celery, small pasta, and spinach into a six-serving dinner with a listed total time of 5 hours 10 minutes.
Slow Cooker Porcupine Meatballs
Old-school meatballs become an easy cold-day main when Slow Cooker Porcupine Meatballs cooks ground beef mixed with long-grain rice in crushed tomatoes until the rice is tender.
Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Herb-Crusted Pork Roast
Herby roast aromas can make an afternoon at home much more inviting, and Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Herb-Crusted Pork Roast gives six servings from a pork shoulder cooked with rosemary, sage, thyme, garlic, white wine, and chicken broth.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
