Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Day 8, Very Late A...

I know how  it appears, of course. Like cheating. Shameful.  Making two trials of baked beans count for 2 of the 7 days in the all engrossing Slow Cooker Challenge of my own devising. I mean, really! But in fact, appearances are deceiving once again, promise. Two days of baked beans was actually just an excuse to extend the supreme Slow Cooker Challenge to a stunning 8th day in a row, in spite of conferences, deadlines,...

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Days 5 and 7, post...

It was inevitable, really. I had to beg a sick day from the slow cooker challenge. Not a break from slow cooking, mind you, just from posting about it. This “bug” (which is really too diminutive a word for the repulsive, green slimey, lung-flapping viral/bacterial ball it is) has been a real b***. Because misery loves company,  it’s tempting now to go into extreme detail about the progression of chest...

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge day 6: Crock-pot El...

If you’re scrutinizing this slow-cooking challenge I’ve set myself (which is unlikely, I know, since who really would be), you’ll notice this post is out of order, and might conclude that I missed a day. If so, I must protest, that isn’t true! If there’s anything I’ve plowed through with fidelity this week, which has been rough and snot-faced and wearying, it’s this slow cooker plan....

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Day 4, Crockpot Br...

By day four of cooking daily with the crock-pot, there are leftovers to choose from. I guess that’s one key function, and bonus, of slow cookers; you get to spread the yields out throughout the week. Nevertheless, in the potentially twisted world of my odd priorities, the crock-pot challenge must go on! So, the day fourth meal became a simple dessert that could double as breakfast, a brown rice pudding. Lessons learned:...

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Day 3, Black Bean ...

I’m going to aim for being a poster child in brevity today. Everything that comes spewing out of my mouth this afternoon seems slurred and clouded, because I am presently exhausted. Our school has felt like a cesspool of bacteria, and I’ve been fighting (and gradually winning, I might add) a severely disadvantaged battle against the crud clogging my head. Disadvantaged because it’s making it practically...

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Day 2, Chicken and...

In deciding this personal daily crockpot adventure week was for me, I predicted that my best chances of making it successful would be to make sure components were prepped the night before and kept in the refrigerator. I still stand by that prediction. I wake up early for a specific purpose, like getting in a workout that has a clear-cut timeline attached to it. Slicing and dicing, especially bleary-eyed, has too much...