Slow cooking
It’s been a chequered week of alternate days of pouring rain and bright sunshine. Unfortunately one of the pouring rain days was yesterday so I didn’t get my weekly golf, but today is glorious sunshine so I’ve already made the most of it and while Ed was watching The Open (golf) on television, managed a walk – on the path as I reckoned anything off-road might be thick mud after yesterday. It was lovely out there today.
Meanwhile, I’ve been experimenting with the slow cooker. We’ve had ours for about nine months, and use it most of the time to cook meat dishes. You can use the cheapest possible cut of meat, sling everything into the slow cooker, switch on and leave it. Come back around five hours later to a delicious, tasty meal with meat so tender it falls off the fork. And it only uses the electricity of a light bulb. Can’t be bad.
Last week we went into Norwich with our visitors and browsed in the discount book store, where I spotted (and bought for 99p) a book of slow cooker recipes. It was a revelation. I discovered you can cook all sorts of delicious desserts as well as main courses, so we shot into Tesco and bought a second slow cooker for £10, just for desserts.
Today’s effort is a crème brulee, which I love but have never previously attempted. However, even I can manage the bung-it-and-leave-it method, so I have great hopes. One of the really good things is that you can’t overcook, so it suits me fine.
I’ve now found some great slow cooker websites, all offering free recipes which other people have tried and tested. Count me among the fans, I’ve definitely become a slow cooker devotee.
Must go now – off to sample crème brulee…