Crockpot mashed potatoes

I used 5 potatoes for this small crockpot.

Ingredients:

peel and cut enough potatoes for your family (i used my apple corer peeler slicer to make this easy!)

spray inside of crockpot with cooking spray (i used my pampered chef spritzer with olive oil)

put potatoes inside crockpot

cut 1/4 cup of butter into peices and place ontop of potatoes

cook for 4.5 hours on high, when potatoes are tender and ready to mash add the normal ingredients you would to make them and mash them all together!

i added some milk, more butter, and some chicken drippings from the chicken i was making in the crockpot next to it!

"ockee" bean soup

When i was a little kid and my dad would make this soup with left over ham - i called it "ockee" (like gross) so NO ONE ELSE would want to eat it.  I was convinced that if i told everyone it was nasty they wouldn't eat it and i could have it all to myself!  So our family since then has called it ockee bean soup!

Boil ham bone in water (save water)
Scrape meat off the bone (cut into 1" chunks)
(save time with the last step with cutting everything off the bone after you cook it initially, and save the bone in a seperate bag - then just put the ham chunks and bone in together and it's easier to get the bone out later!)

ADD:

Potatoes (2-3 medium cut into chunks)
1 1/2 cups corn
1 cup green beans
2 cans navy beans
1 cup peas
1 med onion, diced
1 cup broccoli
1 cup sliced celery
3-4 carrots sliced

Bring to boil, lower heat, simmer until potatoes are done

this is a very adaptable recipe i also added penni pasta to mine.  if you don't have all the ingredients no big deal add what you have and either leave it out completely or subsitute it!

Italian and parmesan chicken and potato bake

Ingredients:

3 large potato's

Chicken breasts/chicken strips (i used strips in this recipe, only difference is baking time)

1/4 cup italian dressing

1/4 cup parmesan

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Cut potato's and put in the bottom of the casserole dish (i put a little season-all and garlic salt on them)

put chicken ontop (so chicken broth will fall down ontop of them as it cooks!)

spread italian dressing on the top (i used more than 1/4 cup), sprinkle parmesan on top (i used more than 1/4 cup).

Bake for 40 minutes (if using chicken strips) or 1 hour (if using chicken breasts)