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5 Reasons Why You Need a Crock Pot

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1. With a Crock Pot, you are never too busy for homemade. You can prepare a stew the night before you need it and then just pop it in the Crock Pot in the morning for a healthy, hearty, homemade dinner. 2. Food in a Crock Pot stays warm all day. You can make a big pot of soup or stew, or even a casserole, in your Crock Pot and it will stay warm and ready all day long. This is great for those cold winter days when you don’t want to cook but really want to have something warm … Continue reading →

Meaty Monday

It’s a meaty Monday here thanks to my favorite grocery store selling chuck roast at an unbelievably low price. Whereas I usually stock up on white meat, I couldn’t resist the sale, and now I am the proud owner of a 5-pound chuck roast. In addition to the red meat that is sitting in my refrigerator I also have leftover roast pork that needs to be eaten before Ash Wednesday. Fortunately, I have devised two simple and delicious ways to prepare (and subsequently devour) said meat products. Take a look: PERFECT POT ROAST Ingredients: 1 3 to 5 lb. Chuck … Continue reading →

The Bouquet Garni

A bouquet garni is packet of herbs and spices that you put with your pot roast to help flavor the cooking juices. It gives your finished product a hint of whatever you put in it. I should note that typically, a bouquet garni is comprised of parsley, thyme and bay leaf, however, the sky is the limit and you can put just about any type of flavors in your bouquet garni. How To Make One You’ll need to buy some cheesecloth for this–preferably double layered 100% cotton cheesecloth. You’ll also need 100% cotton string. You can get these from the … Continue reading →

3 Easy Ways to Salvage a Ruined Dinner Without Ordering Pizza!

It doesn’t happen to me often, but every once in awhile I ‘ruin’ dinner. I should clarify that if you’ve completely burnt dinner to a crisp, or baked the roast with the plastic still on it, then just go ahead and start dialing the pizza place now. But sometimes, I ruin dinner enough that while it won’t make a whole dinner. . .it might survive some type of make over that will spare us from forking over the cash for pizza. Case in point: last night I tried to cook a roast that wasn’t fully thawed. Yes, I know–that’s not … Continue reading →