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Chocolate Cobbler

3/4 stick butter

1 cup self-rising flour

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup milk

1 1/2 T cocoa

1 T vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F

Melt butter in 9x13 pan (I just put the stick in the pan and let it melt as the oven preheats).  In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and milk together.  Drizzle this mixture over the melted butter but DO NOT STIR! 

In a separate bowl, mix another 1 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of cocoa.  Sprinkle this dry mixture over the butter and batter but DO NOT STIR!  Now pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water over the top of it all but DO NOT STIR!  Bake 30 minutes and serve warm.  Great with vanilla ice cream or by itself.
 
Greg,

Any chance of hearing more details on the mushroom soup chicken in the Crock Pot?
Sorry for asking again. I'm hoping maybe you just missed the first post about it.
Thanks!

The other Barry
 
Some of my favorites:

Winters can be very cold and hard here in Minnesota. I keep plenty of "Old Standbys" in my recipe arsenal:

Beef Stroganoff
Lasagna
Spaghetti with meat sauce
Tater Tot Hotdish (It's a MN thing. Just ask if you want to know about it)
Italian Meatballs with Penne Pasta
Swedish meatballs
Beef Stew
Turkey Dinner
Pot Roast
Meatloaf
Chili con Carne
Hamburger Gravy over mashed potatoes.
Beef Burgundy
Chicken Noodle Soup
Beef Barley Soup
Cream of Chix Wild Rice Soup
Clam Chowder
Ham and Bacon Chowder
Hamburger Goulash
Cream of Tomato Soup
Baked Rigatoni With Meat Sauce
Thanksgiving in a bowl "Turkey Rice Soup thickened with roux and leftover gravy added"
I have more but that's all for now. Comfort food recipes are a must up here just like a good snowblower. LOL!
WK78
 
Some of my cold weather favorites
Beef stew
Hamburger pie
Beef burgundy
Pot roast with onions and carrots
Stuffed cabbage with mashed potatoes
Stuffed peppers with mashed potatoes and creamed peas
Vegetable soup
Baked ham with bourbon glaze or raisin sauce
Meat sauce with meatballs and percatelli #12
Porcupine balls
Chicken cacciatore
Chicken paprikash with grated noodles

And of course the stuffed cabbage soup that is cooking away in my 6 qt electric Presto cooker

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@ The Other Barry

Crock Pot/slow cooker chicken with mushroom soup is one of those staples that evolved along with that device.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mushroom+soup+chicken+crock+pot

As such there are many variations but two main staples; cream of mushroom soup and a crock pot/slow cooker. What happens afterwards is only limited by one's creativity.

IIRC mushroom soup chicken may have been one of those original recipes for "busy housewives", working mothers and anyone else seeking a fast and easy meal that made use of the new kitchen gadget, the Crock Pot.

On a very basic level you just take some chicken, a can of cream of mushroom soup, and water. Dump the lot into slow cooker and set then forget.
 
Thank you, Launderess

I figured it was probably something as simple or as "souped up" as one wants it to be.
I was just curious to know if Greg did anything special/specific with his take on it.
We've been talking about breaking out the Crock Pot more often.
There may be some version of mushroom soup chicken in our not too distant future!

Barry
 
Here’s something that my Grandma and Mom used to make, a midwestern dish, String Beans, Ham Hocks and Red New Potatoes. You cook it all together until the meat on the Ham Hocks is tender. Also, use some black pepper to taste. The String Beans will be WAY done, definitely not the way we are all used to eating them today. But it is a really delicious, old time family meal. They always served it with cornbread, to sop up the “pot liquor”.

I haven’t had this in years, and frankly, I could never do it the justice that Grandma and Mom did for the dish. But I need to give it a try again. Its good old country cookin.

I believe that this would also be good made in a crock pot.

Eddie[this post was last edited: 10/27/2018-00:36]
 
Greg, I made the Chocolate Cobbler this evening for desert, asked an old friend over to eat with Dad & I as I wanted her take on it as well. The meal was Crockpot Creamy Chicken with Mushrooms over Rice, Corn on the Cob, Salad with fresh tomatoes, and tea to drink. Didn't have a 9x13 pan and ended up using a round 13" casserole dish. It came out sort of flat, think it was the flour, should have added some baking powder. I also cooked it longer than the 30 minutes as my oven seems to cook cooler than my old one. I'm going to retry this in about a week, with correct size pan and added baking powder. Also curious if an added touch of rum would be good? What did come out of the oven was utterly delightful, we all had seconds with "healthy" vanilla ice cream (guest is diabetic). It's really good, and the overall meal was pretty good.
Being a caregiver, don't think I could live without my Crockpot. I cook most everything on high and cut the cook time. It gives me a chance to clean up the kitchen as the meal cooks.

Barry

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Barry, my mushroom soup chicken in the crock pot is just a whole chicken or chicken breasts with soup smeared over them.  Nothing special.  I do the same thing with pork chops.  But My pork roast is a little different....I add a chopped onion to the cooker with the mushroom soup. 

I made a chocolate cobbler tonight....there's saran wrap over it in the picture.  It's only about an inch thick when cooked using White Lily self-rising flour.

 

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As you read this, the split peas have been simmering in the slow cooker since 7:00am PDT.  The pressure cooker's waiting to take the stage atop the induction cooktop for the brown rice with sliced Polska Kielbasa.

 

They will be wed at dinnertime around 5:00pm.
 
Split Pea Soup with sliced Smoked Brats and Brown Rice

 

The smoked Brats from ALDI are just the right size to slice into "dimes".  Gonna make this batch one-pot style in a big slow cooker.  Brown rice can withstand all-day simmering without dissolving.  Just add enough extra liquid to accommodate the rice and let everything cook for 8 hours on Low.
 

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