So, just what is the Rival Crock Pot Dream Kitchen and why am I sharing it with you here?  The “Dream Kitchen” is a collection of some of the fancier Rival Crock Pots that I have seen out in the marketplace and which I think it would be really neat to own – kind of [...]

Recently, some of my In-laws came out West for a visit. While they were out here, they shared more than one tale of their love for cooking. One thing that gave me a chuckle was how much my Wife’s Sisters and Mother were fans of their own Rival crock pot slow cookers that they have [...]

How the Crock Pot Caveman learned an economical lesson on maintaining a trusty home kitchen appliance with the timely acquisition of some Rival crock pot parts… The first few posts on here were obviously my accounts of learning some of the easier or more basic beginner crock pot recipes out there. Recently, however, my Wife [...]

After walking me through a number of easy crock pot recipes, my wife decided that it was time for me to experience a slow cooker recipe with a few more variables involved. Oh boy. She informed me that this time around we were going to try out an easy (enough) crock pot fish recipe. Well, [...]

After learning how to easily prepare some simple Crock Pot slow cooker recipes with some other cuts of meat, I realized that I had left pork off the table, so to speak, and thought it was maybe time to have my turn at preparing a meal involving pork and my Crock Pot.  To keep things [...]

I was recently shown how to prepare a very simple crock pot beef stew recipe that requires only a few ingredients for a very delicious tasting beef stew. This is a really easy recipe with just a few ingredients for a really delicious tasting beef stew.  Before I get too far into discussing how I [...]

Well, the first time out, the Caveman tried calling on his unpracticed  culinary skills by following his Wife’s directions in preparing a simple yet tasty beginner crock pot beef recipe and experienced a decent amount of success – enough at least to find the courage to try his hand at yet another easy crock pot [...]

Slow cooked roast beef. Yummm. Well, that is if my Wife is the one who prepares it; when it was my turn to try and prepare a slow cooked roast in our trusty household crock pot, the results could not be so readily assumed.  Lucky for me, my Wife led me pretty much by the [...]

Well to explain why this blog came into existence, I have to first explain my own situation.  I have been with the same partner for over four and a half years now (and married to her for the last two) and over this time I have found myself slowly evolving into  a domestic situation in [...]

The Crock Pot really is easy to use. I say this as someone who does not have the most experience in the kitchen and who has reached the point of confidence and competence with only a limited number of kitchen appliances – and some of those only because my charitable wife effectively held my hand [...]