A recent post by Cooking With Carrie has a recipe for Crock-Pot Chicken. As she notes, "this is by far one of the easiest dinners ever! It takes 10 minutes in the morning to throw everything in and by dinner time it's ready to go."
Her post strikes me as just the latest sign that one-pot meals are the perfect combination of convenience and multi-tasking when a lot of people don't have time to cook.
It also reminds me of when rice cookers were going to be the next big
kitchen innovation -- I received four as college graduation gifts.
While I no longer have a rice cooker, perhaps it's time I update my
view of slow cookers as something for merely warming meat balls or
heating up hot dogs.
There's a new cookbook -- Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever With More Than 400 Easy-To-Make Recipes -- and a blog-based challenge this month, with two writers at the Atlanta Journal Constitution attempting to cook in the Crock-Pot for 30 days.
Count yourself among the converted? Here's a guide to cooking your Thanksgiving turkey inside the pot. Although I'm going to recommend that you take advantage of your extra time on the holiday and fire up your oven or smoker instead.
If you're looking to dip your toe in the water, Target will be selling crock-pots for $3 on Black Friday and the doors open at 5 a.m. So you can have a pot full of chili or a pot roast done by day's end.
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Rice cookers are amazing kitchen appliances. It makes me wonder how we ever lived without them. Today there are several brands and models that also vary greatly in prices. You really won't need the fancy ones.
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I also recommend the new bookMake It Fast Cook It Slow by Stephanie O'Day. It has CrockPot recipies for everything, including dessert, beverages and breakfasts. It was based on a crockpot meal a day for a year challenge (link in my name).
I'm always interested in vegetarian recipes for the crock pot. It seems like so many slow cooker recipes are meat-based.
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