 Now I'll be honest I don't use my slow cooker very often but there are some recipes that can only be cooked in your slow cooker. Now these three recipes might surprise you how fast they are to throw together and the best part is they taste delicious. Now I'm curious before I get started do you still have a slow cooker or are you completely team instant pot? I still have both because I still use both but I'm curious what you use. All right everyone let's get cooking. Now the first recipe we're making today is our loaded slow cooker chicken and potato casserole. First we're going to spray our slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. Next we have four to five russet potatoes. Now I love to leave the skin on them just because it makes life a lot easier and then I also like to cut them into about bite-sized pieces. So we're going to dump about half of these into the bottom of the slow cooker. Next I chopped up about two pounds of chicken into bite-sized pieces. We try and simplify that's how we're doing it. So we're going to pour all of the chicken onto the potatoes. Now in here I have some salt, some pepper, and some garlic powder. We're just going to sprinkle a little bit on right now and then sprinkle on a little bit and a little bit later. Okay now we're going to do halfs of things so we have four things of green onions so we're going to do about two onto it. We have about six strips of bacon so we'll do about half of those onto this. And the recipe calls for two cups of cheese so we're just going to do a cup and put it again on the rest of this. Now we're just going to go through and do the steps again. And last we have one cup of whipping cream and you're just going to gently pour that over the cheese and that's all you have to do with this recipe. So simple, so easy so we're going to put the lid on. Now we're going to cook this on low for about six to eight hours. This is a great one to put in in the morning then it's ready by dinner. All right guys this one is all done. My sister Kendra is coming later to taste test with me so you'll have to wait to the end to watch that. So right now we're just going to move on to the next recipe. The next recipe I'm making is our slow cooker tamale pie. Now I cheated just a little bit and I decided to brown my ground beef before we start it just to make it a little easier. Beef is all ground, grease is drained and now we're just going to add a little bit of salt and pepper and a little bit of cumin so we'll just put that in. Usually I would cook that with it as it's nice and hot and on the stove but we're just adding it now. Now we're going to spray the bottom of our slow cooker with some nonstick cooking spray. Then you're just going to pour the meat right into the bottom of your slow cooker. Now for the easy part we're going to just dump everything in. We'll just kind of go for it so we're going to have a can of corn. Make sure you drain your corn before you dump it in. We have black beans that are rinsed and drained, 10 ounces of green enchilada sauce. This is the brand I like, Old El Paso. We have 10 ounces of diced tomatoes and there are green chilies in this one. You can add the green chili separate but I just like to do mine together. Tomatoes and chilies makes my life easy. Then we have about two green onions that we chopped up and then just a little bit of cilantro. If you don't like cilantro you don't have to add this but I love cilantro. Now we're just going to go ahead and mix this all together and we're good to go for a little while. Now we're going to put the lid on. We're going to let it cook on low for about six to eight hours. All right this has been cooking for a while. Oh man it looks good. So now we need the yummy part on top of it to make it into our, I guess, tamale. So I have one corn muffin mix we're going to pour it in and then I just have two eggs that we're going to crack in and that's all that we need for this mixture today. Then you're just going to mix it until everything is well combined. So once it's all combined it's going to be like a paste almost so we're going to carefully try and just spoon it on, spread it out as best that we can. You've tried to spread it out the best you can. We're going to put the lid on and cook it for another hour. We're going to keep it on low and then we'll test it with the toothpick to see how it's doing. Tamale I'm pretty sure has cooked. It's been about an hour. Looks good. Okay looks all cooked, looks good. Now we're going to add just a little bit of cheese on top and we'll put the lid back on. We want the cheese to melt. We don't have to cook it any longer. We just need melted cheese. Just going to throw on a little bit. Okay we're going to just let this melt for a little bit while we cook the other recipe. Kendra's almost here. And the last recipe I'm making is our bacon wrapped apple barbecue chicken. This one is good. All right so you're first going to start with two apples. Now they said to peel them and then to shred them and so I will cut mine into pieces. You can tell I've already been working a little bit. I will just shred it just like this until there isn't much of the the middle of the apple left. This is kind of like our special sauce. We're going to finish adding to it. So we have about a half a cup of barbecue sauce we're going to add. And if you know me you know that I liked eyeball. Then we have juice from one lemon. We'll just pour that right on top. And we're just going to mix it all up. For the next step we're going to take our cooking spray. Spray the bottom just to make life a little easier. Now over here we have our bacon. So we're going to take a piece of chicken. This is a lot of chicken. And it says to do two pieces of bacon per chicken. So we're going to try our best to wrap it. And it doesn't have to be a tight wrap. We want a little bit longer bacon too because it will actually wrap. All right you can see that looks good. We're just going to put this right into the bottom of the slow cooker. We have to fit four in here. So we're kind of going to push it to the side. So now we're going to take our apple barbecue sauce and just pour it onto the bacon wrapped chicken. Okay then you're just going to spread it around just so all the bacon is covered. All right guys that's it. That's all you have to do. Super easy. Now we're going to just grab our slow cooker lid. And we're going to cook this for six to eight hours on low. All right everyone Kendra is here. I made it! These are the recipes. We're going to see which one you like best. They smell good. Yes let's remove the lid. Look how fancy. Okay we're going to plate these up and taste them. Okay the first one we made was like the chicken potatoes. It looks good. Let's try it shall we? Oh that's good. That's got a lot of flavor. It does. And the cheese on top is perfectly melted. That's good. And the chicken is it's not like overdone. I like it. All right if you could rate this one what would you rate it out of five? 4.8. 4.8 I like it. I'm gonna give it a 4.5. Okay next one. Okay this is our tamale. Like that looks good. I know I'm excited. I love cornbread. So do I. Has the beef and the cheese and the beans and the heaven. Five out of five. Definitely five out of five. I'm just good. I don't have anything about it. You don't even have to ask me five out of five. Last one. I'm gonna like this one because that's bacon. Bacon wrapped chicken. That's good. That's a five out of five. I like how that cooks the bacon. Okay five out of five. Five out of five. Now if you want more slow cooker recipes you can find them just right up there. All right guys we'll see you later. Bye.