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ORIGINAL: zerogirl
Eh, I just follow a recipe unless I know it's going to be too much for our smaller crockpot.

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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt


Winter Harvest Soup

An easy, delicious soup that is pure comfort food. Can be made vegan by using vegetable stock and leaving out the butter, but won't be as creamy or flavorful. Coconut cream can be substituted for butter (I use Trader Joe's in a can.) The skins left on the peppers and apples bring a beautiful color and help thicken the soup. Even if you're not a tofu fan, its use here is undetectable and provides vegetable protein and a creamy taste instead of using regular cream. This makes a lot; it freezes well. You can also 1/2 the recipe.

4 medium size butternut squash, baked, seeds removed, peeled, cubed
3 Quarts double-strength chicken stock
1.5 stick butter (6 oz)
2 Red bell peppers, seeded but not peeled
1 large onion
10 cloves garlic
1 tsp. curry powder
1 12 oz pkg. tofu steak, drained (Hinochi has the most neutral taste, I think)
salt/pepper to taste
2 Fuji apples, cored but not peeled

Throw everything but tofu in the pot and simmer until it's all falling apart. Blend until smooth in the pot with stick blender. Add some of the soup to the tofu and blend w/stick blender until smooth and creamy, pour back into soup and simmer down on low heat to desired thickness, stirring frequently.

The half-recipe would probably fit into your crockpot. If not, quarter it. I usually use a giant stock-pot because I only want to make it once.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You can make great applesauce in the crock pot: put in your peeled cored apples, you don't need to cut them small, add cinnamon (or other sweet spices) if you wish and leave it on low for overnight.

If you prefer apple butter then just put it on warm when you are at the apple sauce stage...at day's end you will have apple butter.

I have sometimes made apple-pear sauce.

Sometimes I add raisins at the start for a nice change... and sometimes I soak said raisins in a bit of rum first.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

really? you do soap? you might be getting some lurid cmails from the pervert again, not the gentleman.

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

This is a bit of a hi-jack, but would you post a recipe, please? I'd love one.

Then I'd have a great excuse to get a new crock pot so I can dedicate my current one to soap.

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

This is a bit of a hi-jack, but would you post a recipe, please? I'd love one.

Then I'd have a great excuse to get a new crock pot so I can dedicate my current one to soap.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I also want to say that I have been fighting an urge to put the title of this thread, crock pot virgin into verse and set it to the tune of cat scratch fever.

As you may be able to subtly discern, I am starting to lose that battle.