Onionated Kitchenmotron!
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loreeCrock-Pot experiment #2 is in progress. Experiment #1 was an unmitigated disaster, owing to a miscalculation of what constitutes "at least half full" and the general suckitude of prepackaged ingredients. For now, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithonium and I are starting with simple recipes, as this cooking method is new to both of us. This recipe is basically a potato gratin escalloped potatoes with onion and ham. If it doesn't suck, I'll post it later.
While I was busy rediscovering my love of the Cuisinart (six potatoes sliced in ten seconds, woo!), we went a little overboard with the pre-prep. The kitchen is now saturated in the aroma of oniony doom, but we have figured out that preparing raw onions is guaranteed to keep the dog out of the kitchen. Some day (year?) the smell of alliums will fade from my fingers.
Here's hoping dinner doesn't end up a gloppy mass of cajun potato cardboard...
tithonium and I are starting with simple recipes, as this cooking method is new to both of us. This recipe is basically While I was busy rediscovering my love of the Cuisinart (six potatoes sliced in ten seconds, woo!), we went a little overboard with the pre-prep. The kitchen is now saturated in the aroma of oniony doom, but we have figured out that preparing raw onions is guaranteed to keep the dog out of the kitchen. Some day (year?) the smell of alliums will fade from my fingers.
Here's hoping dinner doesn't end up a gloppy mass of cajun potato cardboard...
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Date: 2007-02-09 10:50 pm (UTC)Also, if you like pork, a couple of bottles of bbq sauce over a package of ribs is fantastic after 3-4 hours.
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Date: 2007-02-10 12:30 am (UTC)Cut up an onion, some celery, and some green peppers (optional; Allan loves them). Put them in the bottom of the crockpot. Cut the pork shoulder into a few pieces (I just do this to make them easier to smush up) and rub them with your favorite blend of BBQ spices. Put them in the crockpot. Pour a bottle of beer and a bottle of barbeque sauce over all of it, stir it around a bit, and then put the lid on and go away for many hours.
Extract the meat into a bowl, shred it with two forks, and put it back in the sauce. If the sauce is too thin, you can thicken it up with some cornstarch and water before adding the meat again. Let it cook a bit longer to soak up more sauce.
Serves like a billion, but I've used it to make quesadillas and nachos and other things besides sandwiches.
I just made pot roast in the crockpot this week, but I seem to recall that you don't eat red meat. In any case, in my memories are heaps of crockpot recipes. Anything that can be braised does wonderfully in a crockpot.
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Date: 2007-02-10 12:15 am (UTC)Also, onion. Yum.
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