What’s for Dinner?
Juicy Mediterranean chicken marinated overnight and slow-cooked for hours makes for an easy, flavorful gourmet dish.
Crock-Pot Cookery STORY & PHOTOS BY MELISSA DONALD
Using a Crock-Pot or slow cooker is a handy and helpful way to prepare a meal if you are away for the day or want an easy way to prepare dinner that doesn’t require constant attention. Here are three recipes along with some tips on how to make cooking and baking a bit easier in your Crock-Pot. Crock-Pot Tip 1: Easy clean-up Large Crock-Pots can be heavy and hard to clean. Food cooking in a Crock-Pot tends to coat the top portion of the ceramic dish insert, which may require lots of soaking. A Crock-Pot liner (shown at right) is a quick and easy way to clean up a Crock-Pot and is available at your local grocery store. Place the plastic liner on the inside of the Crock-Pot ceramic dish before turning on. Put your meal in, then 22 todaystransitionsnow.com | Fall 2014
place the lid on top with the top portion of the liner overlapping the outside of the Crock-Pot. Do not lift the Crock-Pot plastic liner with contents inside while the meal is hot — serve directly from the Crock-Pot. Once cool, completely remove the remaining food from the Crock-Pot, lift out the plastic liner, and throw it away. The Mediterranean chicken meal pictured above is a quick dish that is easy to assemble. This gourmet flare with little
preparation is best when it’s prepared the night before and sits overnight in the refrigerator. I suggest placing everything in the plastic Crock-Pot liner, closing with a twist tie, and placing in the refrigerator overnight. RECIPE ON PAGE 24 >>