Took dinner to two friends last month, and decided to use my slow cooker to help the job along. Followed the recipe in Cook’s Illustrated Best Slow & Easy Recipes for Slow-Cooker Chicken Pot Pie, and gave myself two days to put the recipe together. Day 1 was to do the filling, and day 2
We needed to feed a crowd last night and with a busy day ahead of us, wanted to just plop stuff in the slow cooker and forget about it. The Husband had also just laid in a supply of dried Chile Pasao from The Shed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and we were dying to
St. Patrick’s Day is here on Wednesday, and I will be able to indulge my love of corned beef. I am going to follow the Crockpot Corned Beef recipe I used last year, and fingers-crossed, there will be enough leftovers for the next day. Here is the rest of my menu plan for the week
Lisa’s slow cooker is too hot. Jane’s slow cooker is too cold. My slow cooker seems to be just right, but it is about 20 years old, so it could conk out at anytime. Since Kitchen Gadget Girl operates on a shoe string budget (!), rather than test a bunch of slow cookers, I thought
corned-beefWith St Patrick’s Day around the corner (ok, tomorrow, if you want to be specific) Corned Beef and Cabbage was on the menu this weekend. Remember my menu plan from last week? We were out all day yesterday and needed to have dinner ready when we walked in the door, so I set up my
