I discovered the joys of slowcooking about a year ago, and the more I use my slowcooker, the more I love it!
You see, I'm a morning person... Yes, one of those horrible, despised morning people that the entire world seems to abhor. I don't mean to be, blame my genes; my dad is a morning person too.
Anyway, as a morning person, my favorite time of the day, and when I am most active, is between the hours of 7am and noon. After that, I just keep at a steady "maintenance" pace until bedtime, usually around 9pm.
But unfortunately, dinner falls right in the middle of my maintenance time... So, what to do?!? I have kids and a husband to feed, and as much as they might disagree with me, cereal should not be a daily dinner food.
That is how the slowcooker has saved me. I am finally able to use my annoying morning-person powers for good. Instead of waking up rediculously early and wondering why the rest of my house is sleeping in, I now use that time to make dinner and toss it in the slowcooker. Then I go about my day, and when I am worn out by mid-afternoon and my husband inevitably asks, "what's for dinner?" I can confidently say something amazing like; "Terriyaki Chicken," or "Pulled Pork Fajitas" or something like that, and not have to do more than five minutes of work to put a fantastic dinner on the table.
He thinks I'm Betty Crocker, and all I did was toss some ingredients in a pot in the morning. Faster than fast food, and about as much effort.
So, that's what this blog is for. I am using it to log my slowcooked creations, along with a complete list of ingredients and cooking times, as well as the general response to the final product.
Tonight, it's dessert in the slow cooker: ApplePie Breadpudding. Tomorrow, I will post the full list of ingredients, and how it turned out.
I will admit, not all of my creations are a success, but enough of them are that I am able to learn from the disasters.
Awesome!
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