Recipe: Country Swiss Steak in Slow Cooker

Danged good food

The slow cooker-- also know as the "crockpot"-- is an under appreciated piece of cooking equipment these days. I would like to see a return to a crockpot way of life. Crockpots simmer the best of the past with the best of the present. Presently, most folks don't have time to cook. (Which is not true, but I'll set that aside.) We ate better in the past-- less fast food, less processed food, more good home cookin'. Crockpot cooking affords the opportunity to eat better while spending little time cooking. 

Here's how it work. You do have to decide on a crockpot recipe, and you do have to have the necessary ingredients, and with some-- but not all-- crockpot recipes you do have to do minimal prep cooking. For example, this morning while the coffee was peculating, Mr. Big Food fried the sausages and browned the Swiss steak. And then you do have to put it all in the crockpot. And you do have to turn it on. But that's it! (That's a lie. Mr. Big Food did have to make some rice this evening.) And then you get home and supper is waiting for you! Easy clean up, too. 

Recipe below.

 

Country Swiss Steak in Slow Cooker

1 lb. round steak cut into serving pieces

4 oz. spicy sausage

1 onion sliced

1/2 tsp salt

¼ tsp pepper

2 Tbsp quick cooking tapioca

1 lb. ripe tomatoes chopped juiced reserved

Hot cooked rice or noodles

Place onions in bottom of slow cooker. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and tapioca. Top with tomatoes and pour over tomatoes juices. Slice sausage and fry in skillet rendering fat. Place sausages on top of tomatoes in slow cooker. Fry round steaks pieces in fat, adding more fat if necessary. Put on top of sausage and tomatoes. Cook on low in slow cooker 10-11 hours. Serve with hot cooked rice or noodles.