1. I injure myself... A lot... Diminishing the possibility of charred skin increases my chances of survival by half. I do still have to contend with the whole blood loss thing when chopping up ingredients, but hey, scars are cool, right?
2. Sometimes I’m lazy. I used to spend an entire Sunday evening and night cooking up different dishes to feed myself during the week. This meant completely trashing my kitchen and (more often than not) getting trashed on wine. With a Crock-pot, minus the occasional stirring, you pretty much just load it up and go about your business.
3. I’m finally on my way to making a decent curry dish. It’s not perfected yet, but the slow cooking process is a must for flavorful curry, and I’m starting to round the corner on my own special recipe.
4. Clean-up is a frakin breeze. Seriously, most of the time it’s just the pot and a spoon. You really can’t beat that.
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5. It makes the house smell fantastic! I love walking into a home that smells like food.
6. You can literally play Skyrim, Diablo, COD, or whatever else you’re obsessed with right now, and still be cooking a pimptastic meal.
I know what you’re thinking: if something is so easy to cook, it must not be all that fun to eat.
Not true.
I literally crave some of the dishes I’ve made in my Crock-Pot. The following is one of them.
Ingredients:
20 oz can of chunked pineapples
1lb chicken breast
¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup teriyaki sauce
Red pepper flakes
8 oz can water chestnuts
8 oz can bamboo shoots
Directions:
Cut your chicken into chunks and toss it into the Crock-pot. I like to buy the stuff that’s already cut up into tenders because that shaves off a little slicing time for me and, let’s face it, this means less of a chance of losing a digit.
And I need those... I’m a lesbian.
Anyway, once you’ve sliced up the poultry and bleached the counter back to kingdom come in an effort to avoid salmonella, crack open your pineapples. Now, I like to add some of the pineapple juice to give the dish more flavor, but it’s not required. If you don’t like the idea of the extra sugar and preservatives you can drain the can. Whatever your decision (I know it can be tough) plop the fruit in the pot with the chicken.
Pour in the other sauces, season with red pepper flakes and set the Crock-pot to high heat. You now have two hours to kill. Why not kill some zombies while stirring intermittently?
After you’ve unlocked as many achievements as one can in 120 minutes, stop by the kitchen again and open up your water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. Drain the cans and toss contents into the mix. Stir and kill nazis just to switch things up.
After another two hours, dinner is done, dude.
This amount should easily serve four people, but if you’re like me, you can stretch the portions out for a week full of nommy lunches. The cash you save on fast food can be spent on more important things, like DragonCon. Which is seriously just a week away.
And there you have it. It’s cheap, fast, super easy, and it makes you look like a wizard in the kitchen. Suck on that EVOO, Rachael Ray!
Now get in there and rock that pot!
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