Hey Crock Pot, You're Awesome.

It's my turn for a crock pot entry. This morning I went to the grocery store to purchase the items I needed for my first pot roast. Got home, cut everything up, put all required ingredients into the pot, including I few of my own twists, and turned it on.

Since I've been out of work I've loved having the time to cook. This time I get to be a witness to this amazing crock pot devise. The smells haven't started yet, but soon they will fill the whole house. When Jason gets home, one of Kate's new creations will be ready for the tasting. It makes me only a little nervous when I muck around with recipes. I really haven't royally messed one up yet, so my confidence that it will turn out great is pretty high.

So little prep work is needed for most crock pot recipes, it is an amazing discovery. Thank you crock pot creator. You are the light of my day and hopefully of my evening as well. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Crock Pots

Last week, for lunch and dinner, we ate beef stew. Not crappy Dinty Moore Grade D Beef Stew. We ate homemade, slow-cooked, melt-in-your-mouth beef stew. A stew that cows willingly give up their lives to participate in. One that could stand up as the model for which proper beef stews should be judged. So good that, if I learned halfway though the batch it was made from people, I would finish it, though grudgingly, and bring flowers of thanksgiving to the graves of the deliciously departed.

Crock pots are the lazy cooks answer to culinary school and talent. Slow cooking is like a flavor multiplier. It takes a modicum of prep time and simple ingredients and transforms them over a long period of time into stellar results. The rule seems to be, if you can't cook it well, cook it a long time.

I think we're making chili next. You're all invited.