[Sca-cooks] OOP - slow cookers

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Hmmm. I made puerco pibil last week in mine (like pollo pibil, but with a
pork loin roast). Marinated the pork for a couple of days in the fridge,
then plopped it into the slow-cooker on low for what turned out to be
about 12 hours. It was lovely and tender and if I'd remembered the citrus
when I made the marinade, it would have been even tastier.

I bought a crock pot cookbook, and a lot of the recipes require way too
much attention to be useful. Any recipe that insists I be there for the
first hour to brown anything is too complicated.

www.recipesource.com (formerly SOAR) has a whole category of crock pot
cookery, and I imagine if you google for it you'll find a lot more out on
the 'net.

Basically, if it can hold up to being cooked slowly for a long period of
time, with moisture, it will work in a slo-cooker. Chili, soups, pot
roast, meat loaf. For that matter, if you've got the freezer space, you
could make stuff and freeze it, and use the crock pot to warm things up
while you're at work. I would also imagine that a lot of Indian recipes
would stand up to crock pot use.

Also, any rice pudding recipe that starts you with raw rice, can be made
successfully in a crock pot. It's a lovely thing to wake up to in the
morning.

Margaret, who is now thinking rice pudding thoughts...


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 sjk3 at cornell.edu wrote:

> The weather and my schedule have been getting to me lately.  Can anybody
> recommend good recipes, websites, or cookbooks for slow cookers/Crock
> Pots?  I've got one, have had it for years, and don't really know how to
> use it.  But coming home after a full day at work (followed by rehearsal
> most days) to a hot meal would be *really* nice.
>
> Sandra