I told you to stay tuned to how my crockpot meal would turn up. WELL, of course it didn't go 100% smoothly, but it did turn out well, and JJ had lots of compliments. Woot! Woot!
Let me start off by saying I heart my crockpot. JJ will do the traditional roast, but otherwise he doesn't venture too much to the crockpot. I am ALL ABOUT IT. I suppose since I work during the day, it just makes sense to me. But also, I just love the ease of dump it in, turn it on, go do stuff, come back and eat. Yup, those steps work for me.
Anyways, I woke up early (I have been to exercise!), and got out my big crockpot and small "dip" crockpot. I decided to tackle the meat loaf first. My Mom sent me her fabulous recipe, so I kind of combined hers and my crockpot one. I mixed all of the ingredients and the final step was to form it into a loaf and place it in the crockpot. Well... we have a round crockpot, so it just didn't seem like the loaf-deal was going to work. Soooo, I just pressed it all down into the bottom of the crockpot, and guess what? It worked PERFECTLY. Actually, the edges were crispy burnt (just the way I like my meat!). Yum-o. The only minor mishap with this one, was that while I was reaching for something in the cupboard, a jar of beef broth cubes fell into the meat. Oops! AAAAND lid on... lesson learned!
Then, I dove right into making the carrots. The recipe called for two pounds of carrots -- this must be for a full Thanksgiving meal or something! I only had the dip sized crockpot left, so I put in about half a pound. The full recipe called for half a cup of water. I thought there was no way fourthing a half a cup would be enough, so I just kept adding water until I thought it was enough. Then I started getting out the other ingredients - honey, apricot marmalade, parsley. I decided not to measure. I'm such an accomplished chef, I really can just measure by eye.... ummm.... yeah right! More like I'm just too lazy to get out the measuring spoons! I poured in some honey and was checking to see about how much marmalade, in comparison on the honey, I should add when I read that it was supposed to be added AFTER the carrots cooked (NINE hours!). Oops. It seriously didn't seem to matter. Besides the carrots possibly being a little water logged... and the lid not fitting on (at first -- I knew the carrots would cook down though!) -- I thought they were delicious -- and they were definitely soft enough for the MVJ to enjoy as well.
GO cooking at home! : )
1 comment:
Oh my gosh Erica, I was cracking up the entire time I read this post. We are so much alike, I am about as much a chef as you are. I can't seem to make a recipe without messing it up, that's why I usually leave the cooking to Rick! But good job on the meal, you should let me know what the recipes were, maybe it's something even I can make!
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