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Drop four thick boneless pork chops into your crockpot. Dump a 16oz bottle of sauerkraut on top of them. Slap the lid on. Cook on at least 8 hrs. (mine goes 9-10 by the time I get home from work and shower. My crockpot is at least 11 yrs old probably much older cause I bought it at a garage sale for $1) serve with fried potatoes. Make the taters ahead of time and nuke to warm. Also I throw a couple slices of chopped up bacon in with the potatoes and onions when I'm cooking them.

Cube Steak Marsala (sort of)
Had some cube steaks I had to use up. Threw 'em on the plastic cutting board, took a piece of heavy duty saran wrap sprayed with cooking oil on one side on top and beat the hell out of them with my baseball bat til they were about cutlet thick. dredge in seasoned flour (salt, pepper, dried oregano) quick toss in a hot skillet to brown, into the crockpot. a Tablespoon of balsamic, 1/2 cup or so of red wine, 2-3 sliced sliced green onions, a package of sliced mushrooms, top with a couple three tablespoons of melted butter. Lid and cook for 6-8 hrs. Best cube steak I've eaten!

Re: the oatmeal. Substitute 1 cup of whole milk for 1 of water and add a cinnamon stick. I wake up early cause the smell makes me hungry.

A friend sent me this one for Coq au Vin. Wesite has a lot of good recipes.

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/07/crockpot-coq-au-vin-recipe.html

Use to reconstitute lemonade concentrate with vodka instead of water; back in college.

have a love/hate affair with fresh squeezed lemonade. Grandmere use to make gallons of it for family picnics, and I was the one doing the reaming with an old-fashion glass lemon reamer. It was the mid-60's and grandpere owned a lemon grove as part of a business deal.

Pulled pork with vinegar barbecue sauce

I'll have to give it try.

My Grandma's Recipe:

One medium onion to one pound ground round.

Peel and coarsely grate onion. Mix with meat and course ground pepper. Grill. cheese, Kaisers rolls and condiments.

She'd get six burgers to a pound of meat. I get three, sometimes four.

A good brandy snifter, a comfy chair by the fire and a window overlooking a snow storm. That's how I like my Cointreau!