Slow Cooker Black Beans

Apple Cake

This delectable Apple Cake has a slightly crunchy crust and a soft moist center that is loaded with chunks of sweet apple and pecans. It is perfectly spiced with cinnamon, ground cloves and nutmeg. It is lightly drizzled with an easy four ingredient caramel sauce. I make this cake several times each fall for bake sales, potlucks and family and friend get-togethers.

Easy Ratatouille

This easy ratatouille recipe is a classic summer French stew filled with vibrant, colourful and nutritious vegetables: tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant. It is a low-carb, gluten-free and vegan dish that can be made in one pan and served atop greens or grains, as a side to a main entrée, or all on its own.

5 Comments

crystalscozykitchen on 10.18.2009

I’m glad you liked it and this is definately a recipe to use up all the extra produce you have… well within reason!

chipotlemama on 10.10.2009

I loved this recipe! Used all the produce I had in my fridge and ended up using some chunky canned salsa instead of the diced tomatoes. It worked great.

I would recommend adding some water at the end of the cooking time just to make sure you don’t have burning and to ensure you have a good consistency, but I think I like my beans a little soupy so this might be my preference only. Thanks again for the recipe cck!!

crystalscozykitchen on 10.4.2009

Pinto Beans would work great as well. I did not have to soak the black beans before cooking them.

melissajane on 10.3.2009

Careinelli – yup, red beans are great in this recipe! These are very good; this is my new basic recipe for beans. I did find that even with a soak overnight, my red beans took FOREVER to cook. I’m just makingthis again with black beans, and I will be interested to see if they cook any faster (I’m soaking them overnight too).

I particularly like that cooking the beans in the crock pot means that they don’t burst and prematurely turn into frijoles, a problem that impatient me tends to have when I do them on the stove – I cook them too quickly, I think. (I also find that doing a one-hour hot-water soak, as you do if you’re in a hurry, makes the beans more likely to burst.) These had a wonderful texture and were overall delicious.