We cook everything from baby food (great for baby purees!) to side dishes and desserts, but mostly main dishes like my 1-2-3 pot roast and pork carnitas. 1-2-3 pot roast goes like this: 1 package of onion soup mix and 1 can of beef broth, 2 tsp of garlic, chopped, and 3 lbs of pot roast (+/- this isn???t exact) I usually use eye of round since that???s relatively cheap and easy to get at Sams/Cost