Preparing Food The Greek Way

Preparing Food The Greek Way Is your crock-pot sitting hidden inside one of your cabinets? It's time to take it out! A crock-pot, or slow cooker, is an efficient, energy-saving, and time-saving little (or big!) item. It can really reduce stress in the kitchen. It also allows you to easily serve home-cooked, healthy meals to your family.

Where I live, we have humid, hot, sticky summers where the last thing I want to do is turn on my oven or fire up my gas stove, much less spend time standing around them preparing meals! During the summer I don't crave meals like chicken and dumplings, lasagna, beef stew, or pork roast. I want light meals with little or no preparation so I'm not standing in a hot kitchen getting even warmer and stickier. So, I use my crock pot! Out of any of the cooking devices in your kitchen, it sets off very little heat and can allow you to put everything into the slow cooker slow cooked leg of lamb mary berry in the morning (when your kitchen is cool) and spoon it up at dinnertime (when your kitchen is not).

You can start preparing your Chipotle chicken recipes by removing the seeds of soaked dried ancho chiles. Blend together a tsp of cumin powder and black pepper, two tbsps of chopped fresh new oregano, six (6) cloves slow cooked leg of lamb garlic and a half of a red onion. This is what you will use to marinate your chicken. Right after marinating for about 1 hour, you may either barbq or fry the chicken. Spice it up with cilantro or lime wedges if needed.

Treat your family to delicious, easy-to-prepare Italian beef sandwiches. Prepare a roast in your slow cooker leg of lamb cooker until it becomes fork tender and is falling apart. Turn off the slow cooker, and place the fully cooked meat in a nine by 13-inch pan. Shred the meat into bite side pieces using two forks. Drain the liquid, and return the meat to the slow cooker. Add enough beef broth to cover the meat and keep it moist. Drain and mix in an 8-ounce jar of either hot or mild banana pepper rings. Serve the meat on crusty rolls or Italian bread.

The following tips are for you if you've never used a crockpot or slow cooker leg of lamb and potatoes before but want to get on the road to sharing tasty, hot meals with your family.

I don't know how many fellow flexitarians there are out there, but the club is definitely growing. It's part of the modern urban package of running, yoga and green tea. Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself sit down willingly to a vegetarian stir-fry. Then again I never pictured myself doing yoga either, until I tried it. I love meat, and I'm a flexitarian.