Crock pot use..

Growing up my mom made the best food in the crock pot, I never understood why or how, but it was always awesome. As I started growing up I just didn't know how. In my mid thirties, I got married and started to try and find ways to use our crock pot, and at first everything tasted as if it had been boiled. I never understood it, I bought good meat, I used the right spices, hell I have cooking for as long as I can remember. But ever time it was the same, boiled, and tough food. One day as I was talking to my mother-in law Bev, I just asked. The answer was so simple, too much liquid. I was indeed boiling the food. That day forward my crock pot skills have become amazing. I make soups, casseroles, meatloaf, and anything else you can imagine in them. Tonight we are having bbq beef ribs in the crock pot. Not too shabby. They will cook for 11 hrs on low temp. I have already added the bbq so that it will cook in while I work.