Look, Ma! No Hands!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 10:03AM Well, kind of...
My mom bought me a new crock pot for my birthday (it was an early present). Since it is the first day of September, I decided to go ahead and break it in.
Actually, the fact that it is the first day of September has nothing to do with it. I had a roast, and what better place to cook a roast than a crock pot?
So, it's 10 a.m. and (making) dinner is done!
I couldn't do much of anything without a little help from Eliana...
I did manage to get my veggies chopped up...
and in the crock pot, covered with herbs...
Then I trimmed the fat and cut the meat into bite size pieces, because that's what my recipe said to do. I always follow directions. Sometimes.
I have to admit that cutting up raw meat is not my favorite thing to do. In fact, when Michaela said,"What kind of animal is that?" and I had to tell her,"A cow," I became a vegetarian.
Not really.
But here is something that is true. Cutting up the meat into serving size pieces before you put it in the crock kind of defeats the purpose of using a crock pot for me. That's a lot of work before putting the meat in the pot! I need a better knife. Or maybe a better recipe.
At least all the hard work is done and I can say with great confidence that dinner will be ready at 6:00 p.m. Yippee!
I would also like to inform everyone that Michaela took the pictures that are in this post. Maybe food photography is in her future. She can take pictures of it, and then I can eat it.
Reader Comments (4)
Isn't it a great feeling when you get dinner out of the way early in the day? I love it when that happens. It's rare, but I love it.
Great photos! I think she does have a future in photography!
I heart crock pots. I have a chicken roasting in mine right now.
Great pictures Michaela!
The photos are awesome -they're set so nicely! Also, I agree - I don't understand these crockpot recipes that require prep. I have two that have you brown the chunks of beef in a skillet before putting them in a crockpot - defeats the purpose! Hope it turned out well!
I have to say that crock pots are a mystery to me...you guys, what I make in there never turns out well! In the past, I actually had chicken come out burnt (burned?) to a crisp. Weird.
And while Michaela took the pics, I cropped them a little, so it was a team effort. Hee, hee.