Am I a Crack Pot?

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... for baking in my crock pot? In another discussion of mine last night, someone mentioned apple crisp and I offered that I loved a simple recipe that I found to make in a crock pot. Several people wanted to hear more about it, so I thought I'd share. It's actually called Apple Ginger Crumble, but it's all the same to me: 5 cooking apples, peeled and sliced 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packeed 1/2 cup flour 3/4 cup rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 5 tablespoons butter Lightly butter the crockpot and place apple slices on the base Combine sugar, flour, rolled oats, ginger and nutmeg and cut in butter, using a pastry blender or knife. Sprinkle this mixture over the apples. Cover and cook on low 5 to 6 hours. I don't usually measure the spices, I just add until it smells good. I usually use cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice as they're all pretty much the same, but the bit of ginger really does add something nice to it. I also don't wait until 5 or 6 hours. It might be more crunchy at the top if you wait that long, but I've tested it after just a couple of hours and the apples are more than cooked so I usually just break out the vanilla ice cream and have at it. No one ever complains, so I guess it's ok. I never would have thought about doing something like this in a crock pot, but a friend shared it with me some time ago and it really is good, and saves having to heat up the whole kitchen with the oven, as well as saving on the electric bill. Do you have other things that you've adapted to cook or bake in a crock pot that are a bit outside of the norm?