Try canned diced tomatos.
One can find a recipe for beef stew in the cookbook that one received when the slow cooker was purchased. The Martha Stewart website also has a recipe for slow cooker beef stew.
Just about every recipe website on the web will have slow cooker recipes. Some good recipe websites to check out are allrecipes.com and cookinglight.com. You will find well over 100 slow cooker recipes between those two sites alone.
Not usually, because the slow cooker cooks for so long to begin with.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Beef-Stew-I/Detail.aspx has a detailed and well explained slow cooker beef stew recipe. It is neatly organized which makes it very easy to follow. The best part is that it gives you the calorie count, the total fat and the cholesteral of what you're eating.
You can use a slow cooker with either frozen or defrosted meat. The recipe should state which you use or the cooking time and temperature will have to be adjusted. Frozen meatballs are excellent in a slow cooker.
There are many websites out there where you can find slow cooker recipes. I don't have a favourite website in particular. You may be able to find one on allrecipies.com
There are many cooking blogs and mom boards that contain a ton of easy slow cooker beef stew recipes.
You can find a slow cooker recipe for Italian Beef online at websites such as All Recipes and Southern Food. You can also locate a recipe by purchasing a Crock-Pot cooking book at your local Barnes & Noble.
You can find good recipes for chilli in your crockpot at the following websites...allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-chili-ii/ or crockpot365.blogspot.com/.../21-ingredient-chili-slow-cooker-recipe...
There are several books available for the rival slow cooker. Rival Crock Pot: 3 Books in 1: Slow Cooker Favorites/Winning Slow Cooker Recipes is probably the biggest one out there. Another great one that is available is the Rival New Creative Crock-pot/slow Cooker Cookbook
Check out links like www.allrecipes.com or other recipe sites. They are an excellent resource to get slow cooker recipes. A trip to your local library will also help!
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