"Fried, roasted or stewed, Oh! Food, wonderful food, marvelous food, glorious food"
From "Food Glorious Food" - Oliver!
Written by Lionel Bart, Composer, Lyricist, Librettist
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Who doesn't like food? Certainly, not me!
Cooking it can be a drag, though, when I'd rather be Shopping!
So, I shop for ways to cook less often and make cooking easier.
A couple of weeks ago, I ordered a slow cooker cookbook from a young mom at work who was peddling her daughter's school fund-raiser wares. Well, the book arrived and all the recipes had extraordinaily QUICK preparation times, but were for 6-10+ servings. Hmmmm...what an opportunity!
Rather than recalculate the recipes (I am arithmetically-challenged.), I decided to prepare the recipes as written and freeze the extra portions so that I only have to cook 25% (I think) of the time! Don't you think I'm clever?
Then, I thought, I still have the same Crock Pot (harvest gold) that I got as an engagement present in 1967. It still works, but I think it's time for a new one --- bigger, better, and with more features. And, with a Crock Pot, I can put the recipe together in the morning, spend a long day SHOPPING and come home to dinner!
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OK, so if I have a new Crock Pot, what am I going to do with the extra food?Now, it's confession time. Last year, I bought a store-brand vacuum sealer. Big mistake! It was a pain to use and the heat "sealer" didn't.
So, I checked with my friend who has a Food Saver, and she's thrilled with it. Her freezer looks like a frozen Horn & Hardart Automat. (Anybody remember them? There was a huge one near Macy's
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More about The Automat:
There was a wall of little windowed doors. You put your money in a slot, turned a knob, the door popped open, and Voila, FOOD! Sometimes, I could see the hair-netted ladies through the glass as they placed the freshly made victuals into the back of the heated or chilled compartments. (My favorite was the baked beans that were served in little brown ceramic pots. Automat food was so good, another one of my favorites was their creamed spinach!) For dessert, I LOVED the Pumpkin Pie! The restaurant had a cafeteria-style steam table too, but I liked the "Automat"ic method better. I always volunteered to get my mother her coffee because it was dispensed through a dolphin-shaped spigot.
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