by Cheese » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:22 am
All be it, crock pot cooking is the safest possible.
Chickens once dead, rarely become zombies. They much more often become buffalo kickers. If you truely worry about the chicken rising out of the pot, just put some Ray's BBQ sauce, or Franks Red Hot sauce within viewing distance of the pot and any demonic chicken will be scared away. Works like butter in Leonard part 6.
Great way to get fammilar with the pot: Chilli
1 onion choppered in any way. Even split into 4 big pieces, OK
1 green pepper choppered, like fork eatin size.
some garlic (you wont stink, but the more you put in the more people know you did some cookin)
1 package of sausage cut across the short side. Hint if it looks like a bananna still, thats the long ways. No sweet, or breakfast please.
2 cans of tomatoes, whole peeled, or one big can. Bigger is usually cheaper per volume.
1 can of chili seasoned beans
1/2 cup water
splash of salt now or to taste later. (The earlier one adds salt to a tomato product the less total salt it takes to season it.)
Dump it all in, turn on, leave. So long as you return within about, 4 hours... all ok.
Once you get comfortable, go nutty. Add cumin, use regular beans so you can make the spice mix, do whatever you want. I add homminy and tomatillos. (thats corn and those strange green tomato lookin things in the store) Even a splash of green salsa will change things round for ya.
Crock pots will go forever without any real trouble, the question is when do you want to eat.
Crock pots usually have an auto switch, but even if they dont tis ok. Low is great for the food so start there. The pot was made to help make crummy parts of meat cook for a long long time so they taste great without the constant hassle of a stove top heat adjustment.
The only thing I make sure of on a crock pot is that you can take out the cook bucket to wash it. That is just my preference, cause its a faker to move arround the whole thing when its cleanin time. Much easier to take it apart and hose it down in the shower.
Maybe that helps?
I can try to write up a larger recipe database for ya, but dont want to suck up too much forum time. In the middle of writing a cookbook, so I'm more than happy to share what I have.
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