Crockpot Tamale Pie

[kerryandgoofy]

OK just found this on another board and I’m GOING to have to try it!


Crockpot Tamale Pie

Recipe complements of "Fix It and Forget It" cookbook for crockpots/slow cookers.....

3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/2 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 pound ground beef, browned and drained
1 envelope dry taco seasoning mix
16 ounce can diced tomatoes
16 ounce can corn, drained
1 cup grated cheddar cheese

1. Combine the cornmeal, milk and egg.
2. Stir in meat, chili seasoning mix, tomatoes and corn until well-blended.
3. Pour into slow cooker.
4. Cover. Cook on High 1 hour, then on Low for 3 hours.
5. Sprinkle with cheese. Cook another 5 minutes until the cheese is melted.


This would be a nice meal to have for informal company--serve with chips and homemade salsa and you too can sit around and enjoy the company and let the crock pot do the work. It also would be an easy dish to take to a potluck in the crockpot.

[henryswife]

Sounds good Kerry. My daughther uses the crock pot almost every weekend when she works so hubby has something easy to feed the kids & of course him too! Just don't cook over night, you can't sleep smelling it all night! LOL Alice

Took pics. of new roaster-slow cookers like she has, but not in photo-bucket right now. They are great to cook outside when you don't want to heat up the kitchen & use just to keep food warm.

I've been making:

1. Chicken soup- whole chicken, not cut-up. 'old wives tale for colds' slow cook for stock, remove chicken, add carrots,celery,parsley to stock untill tender. Cut up chicken, add to pot. Serve with egg noodles or rice.

2.Meat-loaf - 3+lb. ground beef, 1 pk. lipton soup mix,1 egg,1 cup breadcrumbs.
Mix, form into loaf form,add 1/2 cup water to backing dish,cover with tin foil, 1 hr. Remove foil & add any cheese to melt on top for a few min.

3.Mac. & cheese- 1 lb elbow,1 lb. velveeta cheese. cude cheese & half melt it in some milk in sauce pan. add to cooked mac. Add a can of tuna-shrimp. Mix & add more milk till it's a little soupy. I top it with bread crumbs or chips & dot with butter.

4. Scalloped potatoes- with oinions & ham. I found cooking the sliced potatoes half way, and cooking the onions in the milk & butter-salt-pepper before putting it all in the baking dish cuts down on the baking time.

Alice

[Sheila]

Kerry your recipe sounds good and I must try it, although I know my husband wouldn't eat it.

Alice your recipes sounds good too. I believe Bill would try your dishes, for he loves soup, meatloaf, mac/chs, and scalloped pot.

[Michael B]

When I first saw the recipe, I thought it was going to be a soupy/stewy dish with cornbread dumplings floating on top, like mashed potato on top of a shepherd's pie. I can't quite picture how it really is; I'll have to try it and see.

[Sheila]

henryswife said:

I've been making:

1. Chicken soup- whole chicken, not cut-up. 'old wives tale for colds' slow cook for stock, remove chicken, add carrots,celery,parsley to stock untill tender. Cut up chicken, add to pot. Serve with egg noodles or rice.

Well I made chicken soup tonight. I didn't use the crock pot. I cooked my chicken yesterday and removed the bones. I cut up carrots and celery tonight, and made the soup. Bill says I'm the only person he knows that under salts when I cook. I told him, he can always add salt... I never ate salt before him! Anyway at first Bill didn't care for it; he said it didn't smell like chicken soup, and needed more salt, celery and chicken flavor. I put a lot of celery and carrots in it, along with celery salt, onion salt, pepper, and regular salt! I also put medium noodles in it.

I thought it tasted good...

[henryswife]

I don't use the crock-pot for chicken soup either, just a pot on the stove & simmer for 2 hrs.
Have to use a strainer to remove chicken when cool enough, than add veg. I use to use that salt that is 1/2 & 1/2 something because he has H.P. Never knew the difference untill I asked him to refill the salt shacker. Darn! Nu-salt tastes more salty than real salt. I only use a little salt & pepper to cook food & let everyone else add their own to their own taste.
Adding salt to veg. makes their color stay greener & you're pouring out the salty water before serving, same goes with pasta, you're dumping the water with almost all the salt.
Sometimes I add 1 of those cans of chicken broth [they have low salt too]
I'm sure it tasted good, I'm not a big salt person either.Just curtain things like corn on the cob.
Alice