The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

@vehve

For what its worth a crock pot uses less energy than the stove... even just a simple one has high medium and low and warm settings.

Depending on recipe food is cooked long and low and they are great for making just about anything you can roast in the oven. I have even done a turkey in a large crock pot.

So far I have had poor success with beans and chili though. But i have successfully made Chicken, Roasts, Apple butter, and soups in the crock pot.

You season less because the seasoning goes further.... You still sear beef or pork off before cooking in the crock pot with moist heat.

I have taken a solidly frozen chicken and put it in the crock pot with just a splash of water.... I season it with salt pepper and garlic and put in a bay leaf..... Startt it in in the AM like six am and come home from work to a pull off the bone done chicken..... I pull it out remove the bones and serve it like a chicken stew.

deb

Both Pressure cookers and crock pots are energy efficient.

I use my pressure cooker a couple of times a week. I made beans with hamburger chili in mien on the First.


Yum!

 

[hennible]

Corner cupboard suck but it's helpful if you have a Lazy Susan inside them...

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, I don't have one myself, but the best kind of cabinets I've seen are the kind that you can pull out the whole thing, it's like a giant shelf on rails inside a cabinet. You can't of course install them in a corner, but they're super handy.

I definitely want pull out shelves on rails.... for my own house. But Grandmas kitchen is very tiny. like ten feet by ten feet for two full walls and then its cut across the diagonal for the sink. so I em estimating fifty square feet of kitchen with about eight square feet of floor.

In that kitchen is one pantry (converted broom closet), space for, a side by side refrigerator, a free standing stove that is dying.... The stove is so small they dont make them that width anymore.... a Diswasher, and a two hole sink....

Cabinets are too high for easy access except the bottom shelf.... and two corner cabinets and ONE cabinet that has drawers.

Your kitchen is like a galley kitchen everything on one wall and in alignment. My kitchen at my house started out life about the same size as grandmas.... The bones would allow a twelve by twelve kitchen if it werent divided up by windows and walk ways Forced air unit (I removed that) and Washer and dryer cubby.... When i moved in the washer and dryer had been moved to a nice laundry room.

But I have even less cabinets than grandma has... and the ONLY one with any pot storage space is a freaking corner cabinet with a lazy suzan.... I hate wasted space those are even worse than the monkey reach cabinets. I would even prefer open shelving to them.

Which I may do when I remodel. I have NO upper cabinets only shelves that are poorly layed out.

deb



deb

 

[Cynthia12]

How can you not have a slow cooker?

I have 4 of them... granted one is just for soap making... but we loooove slow cookers here.

X's 2...love them.

 

[Cynthia12]

I like the newer ones that look like casserole dishes. Much easier to store when un-needed.

What? I'm behind the times..must see a photo. I will be looking now.

 

[casportpony]

As colics go, this one wasn't really bad; I've seen horses that seem to throw themselves at the ground to try to roll, and one who got cast (stuck) up against a wall rolling and thrashing until he could get up. Probably, if I had given her a dose of Banamine when I first noticed that she was down, I could have saved myself a (rather expensive) vet visit. Oh, well - happy healthy horse; that's what's important, right?

Just glad she wasn't a surgery candidate!

-Kathy

 

[Cynthia12]

Bunny, so glad to hear that your girl is healthy again!

 

[tntchix]

and these

and this one for lunch lol

 

[Peep_Show]

Works for me...

Look at the nose and placement of the ears... It's a rat.

 

[hennible]

Look at the nose and placement of the ears...   It's a rat.

Yet another under-utilized food