Recipes
roasted tomatoes — success: sweet, intense flavor, delicious yield
basil pesto — disappointment: too sharp, too much garlic
pulled pork — disappointment: using the high setting on my new and first ever slow cooker didn’t yield falling apart tender pork, in fact ultimately dry, tough
beef short ribs — success, cover recipe Bon Appetit, cooked to perfection, veggies puree’d into a luscious sauce, served over tender rice
What I Learned
- from 2 of the recipes, low and slow is always better — a true exercise in learning patience, a virtue I would like to cultivate
- when multiplying recipes, err on the side of caution and moderately increase strong ingredients
- keep some type of cooking notebook, it will save you from making the same mistake twice
- sometimes the least expensive or less common cuts are the tastiest
- I have a lot to learn about my new All Clad crockpot