So, wow, a whole week since I posted. Wanted to post on the weekend, but I was stupid-busy. And yesterday. And today.
Anyway, on Saturday, after clearing an obscene amount of snow in the morning from the laneway after a major dump of the white stuff, which followed a major melt wherein almost all the previously dumped snow melted, including most of my anti-zombie snow berms, and raised our water-table to a ridiculously high level, we dropped the boy at Ray's Reptiles for his volunteering and went shopping for groceries and various other essentials that have run down since before the Christmas holidays.
We got some awesome bargains. Many deals to be had, especially for meats. The freezers are all now stuffed again and we will be good probably past the vernal equinox. When we got home, the wife and the boy unloaded our bargains while I finished a strip of snow that had not yet been done. When all that clobber was done, no one was in the mood to cook.
Well, still no oven, supposed to be getting a used one today that is built like a tank. Just waiting for the delivery guys to show up, so, out came the slow cooker.
We got a package of fresh Italian sausage at one grocery store for super-cheap. Eighteen sausages for six-and-one-third dollars. Woo-hoo!
So, a little leftover gravy in the crock and put it on high. Then I cut the sausages in to thirds with a pair of scissors from the kitchen drawer and threw them in the bottom with the gravy. Super-super easy, better than trying to cut them with a knife. Then, a half-dozen potatoes cut in to quarters and threw them on top of the sausages. Seasoned with dry spices: garlic, onion, paprika, chili (real chili), white pepper, some fresh-ground Sichuan pepper, fresh-ground so-called pink peppercorns. Oh yeah, and a few dashes of Worcester sauce. Then, I cut up most of a cauliflower and threw that on top of the potatoes. Then I just let it simmer while we all chilled and mucked about the house.
From time to time, I would give it a stir and mix everything up and around.
The wife took a look at it and said it looked kind of like goulash. Really, in the end, it was a simple goulash. So, with various nations represented: Italy (sausage), South American Andes (potatoes), Cyprus (cauliflower), China (Sichuan pepper), Brazil (pink peppercorn), Hungary (paprika), Asia (onion), Iran (garlic), India (pepper), UK (Worcester sauce), South America again (chili peppers). It is my UN Resolution 13012018 Goulash.
Now, the only hitch? I do not know if all crock pots take a while to really get a move-on or not, but both of mine take two to two-and-a-half hours to really get percolating. No worries though, very UN-like in the end then. (Ha! I kill me!!). We just had a really late supper in the end which worked out really well this past Saturday.
Well, the oven just came. Great guys who brought it by. It is built like a tank. The only thing that sucks? The interior is a touch narrower than our crap stove and the trays do not fit inside. No worries, those will be used for campfire cooking or cooling racks for baked goods. I just need to keep an eye out while driving around for stoves being dumped and grab the trays out until I can get enough trays to fill every slot. Three more needed, for total of five slots to be filled, as I want to try to make jerky and try dehydrating various product from the woodland.
Still going to continue experimenting with the crock pots though. But. But. Tonight, I think, it will be chicken wings. Yummy-yum-yum. blbbl
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