Your wish to just have to push a button and have your meals be prepared for you are about to come true. We have all experienced times when we have been too tired to even think of cooking a meal when we get home. It is good to have a life partner who shares the cooking chores equally, but for those of us whose partners can’t cook or don’t want to. Fantasies like having to purchase the vegetables and ingredients from the market and some how have a magic genie prepare the meals for us are not uncommon.
Technology has done its part to get this part of the dream come true, well to some extent at least. Dutch ovens and crock pots have made cooking easier for many of us. They are easy to use, economical and fast too. Get yourself one and then search around for some ‘slow cooking recipes’.
These very useful kitchen tools permit the cook to just place the ingredients in them and throw a switch. The crock pot or Dutch oven will do the rest, cooking your food all day long as you work in the office. When you get home you will have a superb meal waiting to be served.
So, where do you find slow cooking recipes? A good place to start is the book store. The Internet is another very resourceful place as well as the grocery store and the rear of packaged ingredients. If you subscribe to some cooking publication you are likely to find a few good slow cooking recipes tucked away in the pages. However, if you already know some ideas, you are already on your way to experiencing your cooking assistant and the magic of crock pot cooking.
There are many slow and they come in all forms and flavors. It is possible to prepare main course meals, casseroles, soups and what not with your crock pot or Dutch oven. If you follow some television cooking program you will be given some very delicious slow cooking recipes and a lot of tips and tricks of how to best utilize your crock pot and Dutch oven. A good place to start your practice with them is to begin with the Internet, some of the recipes are very easy for beginners and once you have a little practice with a few ,meals you will be on your way planning your day for all the time you have free from cooking.
If you are the kind that likes to attend classes, then there is nothing like it. You can get hands on tutorials on slow cooking recipes. This will save you time and give you a jumpstart in slow cooking techniques.