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greggchamberlain
04-22-2008, 02:40 PM
a crock pot. preferably one that comes with a little recipe book to get you started but if not, hey, just google "crock pot recipes" and watch the file links line up.

my dad (rest in peace) received a crock pot after he started his little café.

it became his favourite piece of cookware. mine too, after i started college. one of the first things i went out and bought was a crock pot to call my own. i have never regretted that move and never looked back.

at one time i had three or four crock pots, including a hard-to-find REMOVABLE POT version for serving at the dinner table.

the crock pot, a.k.a. the "slow cooker", is the most MARVELOUS aid to the clumsy cook you could imagine. it is "the bachelor's best friend" because, trust me, it is damn near idiot-proof. i mean, you really, really, REALLY have to work at it to bugger up a crock pot recipe. but sometimes even the mistakes taste just wonderful.

for college and university students on the go, and very little time to spend in the kitchen prepping a meal in between classes, it is a godsend. just chop up, brown up, mix up your ingredients, plop them all in the crock pot, cover, set the dial (or whatever) on "low" and head to class. dinner is ready and waiting for you to serve when you drag your weary ass home.

:cool:

LV426
04-22-2008, 03:38 PM
I have one but I only use it to make my italian beast recipe. Mine has the removable pot which is nice for cleaning.

greggchamberlain
04-22-2008, 04:30 PM
what is your "Italian beast" recipe?

given my mania for the crock pot, it is little wonder that i collect crock pot recipe books (of course, adapting just about any recipe for use with a crock pot is pretty easy).

i have four favourite spaghetti sauce recipes (regular, two-meat, vegetarian, tomato&clams).

UNODRAGONE
04-22-2008, 07:25 PM
I am obsessed with making my pasta sauce as well as beef stew in the crock pot, but....alas...it was not my first cookery item.......I had a steamer my trainer gave me for training first :) God I love that thing

WareW-Believer
04-22-2008, 09:00 PM
I am definately gonna need a nice 13" cast-iron skillet. Since I'm gonna commute to college next year and every year untill I graduate, I'll be staying at home. Crock pots are alright, I've never used one, but I desperately need a cast-iron skillet. I'm more for cooking with gas, or anything that produces a flame. It's pretty easy to make one of 'em virtually non-stick through a "seasoning" process.

MorganaFang
04-23-2008, 01:32 AM
My george foreman grill owns