SO we're stuck at home. We ventured outside to push the little push-cart around in the courtyard a bit when it was still reasonably cool out this morning, but we're officially inside for the rest of the day. The A/C is working hard enough, so it was another slow cooker day.
Which is fine with me, because I kind of am a dunder-head when it comes to real cooking. Like the other night, when I managed to forget about my eggs boiling on the stove for about 20 extra minutes.
Apparently over-boiled egg whites turn into that plastic stuff they make fences out of. Ewww....
SO....
TWO items for dinner tonight are in the crockpot!!
Lamb Ribs with Honey and Wine - I got a slab of lamb ribs from my meat CSA, and this recipe looked like it could be easily adapted to fit in my 4 qt. slow cooker. I marinated it this morning, and tossed it in the slow cooker when the baby went down for her (early?? maybe a growth spurt??) nap today.
And I reduced the quantity of everything, since I only have the one little slab. It'll stay on low for somewhere between 5-7 hours.
It. Smells. Amazing. I never knew the combination of honey and soy sauce could work so well.
I know you're not supposed to take the lid of the slow cooker while it's cooking, but I haven't been able to resist taking this off to catch a whiff of it a few times already.
I will try to be better this afternoon.
AND! Dessert!!! (The husband will be so happy - I rarely make dessert.) When we moved, I found two bags of brown sugar in the back of my pantry that had been there for at least a year. Being a cheapskate and also someone who hates throwing food away, I actually packed them up and moved them to our new place. (My husband didn't even try to challenge this decision. He just sighs and tapes up the box and moves it for me.)
BUT!!! I think he will be happy this time.
I thought a crumble of some sort would be great for the super hard and crusty brown sugar. And I knew that if I gave it long enough in the slow cooker with some butter and apples, it would soften and be just fine.
I found this recipe (on yet another vegetarian/vegan site like the one that I found my oatmeal recipes on! how ironic!) and thought I could make do with what I had in the house (again, since the husband took the car and the grocery store is a bit of a long walk for this kind of heat).
I admit, I didn't measure anything. I don't like measuring things. It just makes more dishes, and I always find myself tasting and adding more of something else, anyways.
And the baby has all of my measuring cups and spoons scattered amongst her toys, anyways.
I used my (NEW!) 2 qt. slow cooker for this one.
-2 apples, peeled and sliced
-the stones of brown sugar I had (a bit of light and a bit of dark) - probably about a half cup
-cinnamon
-cloves
-nutmeg
-a packet of my gluten-free oatmeal, which just happened to be an apple cinnamon flavor
-maybe 1/3 of a stick of butter, but some of that was used to coat the crockpot, and I didn't really pay attention to the quantity of the rest - I just added it until it looked reasonable
Just dump the apples in the crockpot, after you've done a quick coat with some butter on the stoneware. Mix up all the other ingredients and then dump the mixture on top of the apples and sort of mix, but not totally.
We'll see how this turns out. It smelled yummy. I plan on leaving it on low for 3-5 hours.
I should probably take some pictures of these things and start posting them, so we can all laugh at my photography skills together.
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