Food and drink

[SuburbanFarmer]

I'm going to experiment with my slow cooker tomorrow by putting country ribs and chicken breasts at the same time.

Thoughts on this? Idiotic or genius?

Goal is to save time - trying to get two meals done in one day.

Not a good idea, unless you're planning to make them both with the same sauce... which is also not a good idea.

[K@th]

Something like this -

http://www.christineiscooking.com/2011/ ... -easy.html

[SuburbanFarmer]

Something like this -

http://www.christineiscooking.com/2011/ ... -easy.html

Well that's not 2 meals, is it..

[K@th]

It's an experiment. I'll report back. Worst that can happen is it won't work. Experimental cooking has led to some amazing discoveries.

[Hastur]

Why use a slow cooker if you want to save time?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Why use a slow cooker if you want to save time?

Common misconception. Kath (like all women) wants to save work - not "time".

[K@th]

Why use a slow cooker if you want to save time?

Well, my time spent, not cooking hours.... I'm doing camping prep this week, so everything is a little nutz. I try to bring a pre-cooked meal for Friday, because we never get camp set up before dark, because we can't even leave home until the kid gets out of school.

So, I want to bring some ribs that we can just throw on the grill to heat up. The chicken is because I can't cook it tonight and if it doesn't get cooked, it has to get thrown out. It's been re-frozen once already.

Just a crazy week with too much thawed food and not enough time to prep it the normal way.

[Montegriffo]

It's been re-frozen once already.

If you mean it was frozen then defrosted then frozen again still raw that is really bad practise. I would suggest letting the cats have that.

[K@th]

Sorry - bad typing. It was frozen. I thawed it. Now I have to cook it.

[Hastur]

I’ll await your report. The recipe looks like it could be tasty. The picture looks like sh*t. Chicken benefit from the pork. Especially the breast.