Crockpot Cooking

My sister began using a crockpot / slow cooker recently, because she does not have time to cook after getting home from work.  She told me that she could do a lot of dishes with it.

On top of that, she finds that she could leave the crockpot on all day at times when doing stew dishes like chicken curry, which she reported comes out really well.

My Asian friend echoed her sentiments and proceeded to tell me how she uses it to make congee or rice porridge among other Asian delights.

So, after hearing all the glowing testimonies, by the end of that week, I dug out my small crockpot – a gift I had years ago – that was hardly used and started looking for interesting recipes to create with it. And cook I did – the beef stew was exceptionally good, the rice porridge tasty and the clam chowder became my comfort food.

I know that some people worry about burning food if the crockpot is left too long. I should think that is a possibility. So, before you start dumping all ingredients into it and stay out of the kitchen whole day, perhaps you would want to test first how long it takes to cook a particular recipe with the crockpot, just to be on the safe side.

There are a lot of crock pot recipes and videos hanging around the online world and I thought this one is pretty good. So here it is: