They were wrong.
They decided to buy one and give it to me so that they can use it this weekend. This logic makes sense in our family, I suppose. I am now the owner of a 6 1/2 quart slow cooker. This seems a little big for just me, but I suppose I'll manage.
While I shouldn't be buying any books that aren't dissertation related, I decided to see what sort of cookbooks are available for this appliance. I am tempted to purchase one based on a negative customer review. What do you think? Sound like a good reason to buy the book?
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
There's more to good food than adding weird kinds of alcohol...,
March 23, 2008 A Reader (San Francisco, CA USA)
This review is from: Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook (Paperback)
The "not your mother's" part of this book is that all the recipes involve some kind of weird liquor that you probably don't have in the house. Other than that, the recipes are fairly bland.
4 comments:
Ooh! I love my crock pot! Even though I'm usually only cooking for two, I cook all kinds of things that I can stock up. For example, I avoid buying lunchmeat for sandwiches -- I can cook a whole chicken in there, freeze part of it, keep the bones to make chicken broth, and use the rest of the meat for sandwiches. I like to do that because of the high salt content in both lunch meat and storebought chicken broth.
I can also cook beans in the crock pot, leaving them all day to cook while I'm at work.
Just a few reasons I'm a crock pot fan.
Oh, I'm definitely a fan - I just didn't actually own one. I think it surprised my parents b/c they know that I make soup a lot and assumed I used a crock pot. I had to explain that I normally used my 13 quart stock pot or one of my other large pans for that.
I think that I will need to use it to make apple butter soon!
I don't know. I received a crockpot from my parents, too, and never really got into it. For one, I'm never organized enough to dump stuff into it in the morning anyway, and most of the recipes I've tried turn things into a bland mushy mess. I think the single ingredient items (beans, a chicken) sound best because otherwise everything just starts tasting like everything else.
Some soups do really well - my dad does an awesome beef stew in the crock pot. He does wait to add things like peas and corn until about 1/2 hour before it is done so that they don't overcook.
My general rule for these things is that the recipes that work best are the ones for foods that do best when cooked for a long time at low temperatures, things like tougher cuts of meat. Foods that are more tender will get mushy and if that's not the intent, it's definitely a problem.
Plus, they're good for keeping foods warm at a party!
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