Marie Cookpad

  The recipe I am sharing today is loosely based on one I found on Gimme Some Oven , who borrowed her recipe from . My Kitchen Addiction .  And I will wager that she probably was inspired from somewhere else.   You know that old saying  . . .  "There is nothing new under the sun."  This is one I love about the food blogging community. We are always sharing with and inspiring each other.   I saved a few steps in the recipe. They rubbed the meat in the herbs and spices and then browned it first before putting it into the slow cooker.    I didn't have time for faffing about with browning and such.  I just put everything into the slow cooker and cooked it.   I placed the onions and garlic on the bottom of the slow cooker and topped it with the meat . . .    Then I stirred everything else together and poured it around and on top of the meat.  That's it  . . .   Simple.  Easy. Delicious.  You can either ...

  The Engineer should be here at some point today to fix our oven. (Fingers crossed!)   I am really missing it, although without it working, I have been challenged to use some other methods of cooking.   I don't think I have used my slow cooker/crock pot this much in a long time!  Its come in really handy!   Today I did Mac & Cheese in it.  I adapted the recipe from one I found on The Country Cook .    Her recipe makes 10 servings, so if you are wanting to feed a large bunch by all means check it out.  I have downsized it quite a bit to serve only 3 people.    There are only two of us and one of us doesn't like pasta all that much!  So my version makes three servings only.    I can tell you that the end result was very creamy and very rich!     I also created a crispy bread crumb topping.  I like a crispy topping on mac and cheese, I don't know about you.  Its optional, but its very ...

  I had been going to make us a coconut cream pie for dessert this Easter along with a Robin's Egg Blue iced cake roll (filled with lemon curd).  I bought the food colouring and everything, but alas . . .  without a reliable oven, this idea was a total bust!!  What to do instead???   I had spied a recipe for a Creamy Rice Pudding with Cinnamon Sugar in that same cookery book I got the chocolate pudding recipe from the other day and decided that since Rice Pudding is Todd's favourite thing on earth, I would make it for him.   How hard could it be?  Not hard at all, that's the answer!    Everything simply gets mixed together in a slow cooker and the slow cooker(crockpot) does all the work.  You do have to stir it several times during the cooking process . . .  but that's not much of a hardship really . . .   It leaves you hands and stove-free to prepare the rest of your meal with perfect ease!  No fuss no muss!   On a s...