Choice Morsels

Today's Mama Kat blog writing prompt is:  Drumroll please... and my top 3 favorite and/or most used slow cooker recipes are: #1)   Slow-Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes!  I absolutely love how quick & easy a slow-cooker bakes up 4 to 6 sweet potatoes! (This blog page also includes a review of Jurassic World!) #2)  Slow-Cooker Cube Steak & Gravy! Cube steaks are an economic beef option and this slow-cooker recipe cooks 'em up nice and tender with lots of mushroom gravy for rice! Or throw in a few red potatoes in the cooker with the meat and get a full meal in a pot!  Since Hubby is a meat & potatoes guy, this is one of his favorite meals! #3)   Slow-Cooker Chocolate Cake! This slow-cooker cake is on my list to do again--I just haven't had an good opportunity. Even in a large slow-cooker it only serves 6 people well and I usually have too many Air Force kids on Sunday. The cake bakes up very nicely & is m...

Greetings! Today I've decided to try a NEW slow-cooker recipe for cube steak I saw in Pinterest. I have pin board called "Food Ideas, " which is where I put any recipe pins I think I might be interested in trying out. Then I just set up a new pin board called, "Pin Recipes I've Tried, " where I can put all those recipe pins I've already tired. I always make notations on these as to whether they're good or not and what improvements I might have made.  (This board is at the bottom, since it's a new.) I decided on this recipe because cube steak is a fairly inexpensive cut of beef. The pack I bought had just 4 cube steaks in it that were only slightly pounded. For slow cooker use, the cube-steak can't be pounded too thin. Apparently, some cube steaks are more heavily pounded for tenderness and will be marked for "Skillet Use Only "--so you want to watch out for this. Such cube steaks will dissolve to nothing in a slow cooke...