My Love of the Slow-Cooker

I recently discovered my new best friend hidden in the back of a cupboard behind a bunch of other rarely used appliances - the slow-cooker. It was a wedding gift that I remember using once when I wanted to try a pot roast recipe for a dinner party back when my husband and I were first married. It got thrown on a shelf when we moved into our house and collected dust ever since.

Until a few weeks ago, when I found a chicken recipe I thought I could convince the kids to eat that called for, nay, demanded a slow-cooker. I dug it out early one morning and cleaned it up amid chorus of, "Mommy, what's THAT?" A few moments later I was dumping all of my ingredients into the pot and then doing our usual family thing, forgetting about it.

It was a few hours later that we were asking ourselves, "What's that yummy smell?" And by the time dinner rolled around, we were starving. Maybe it was the smells haunting us throughout the day, but when the kids even asked for seconds, I knew I had found something fabulous. I began searching through cookbooks and online for new slow-cooker recipes.

If you haven't tried a slow-cooker, I highly recommend it. And if you have a great recipe you want to share, I'd love to hear it!