The Adventures of Cracky the Slow Cooker

Meet Cracky. He is my slow cooker. I can't call him a crock pot, because he was made by GE. He is one of my best kitchen friends. In the short amount of time that we've known each other, Cracky and I have had several adventures together. I can fill up his crocks with tasties and leave the house for a whole day's adventuring and not worry if my minions are having to suffer without food because Alpha Man says he has never cooked anything. How that man managed to survive without me is a mystery. How he manages to survive WITH me is an even greater mystery. I'm not easy to live with.

The first time I broke out this cooker was the day after I bought it. I had wanted one ever since Christmas, when my friend was telling me about hers. After looking at the ones I could find, this was the only one that had crocks that were big enough for meal sized portions. Most of them have crocks that are 1.5 quarts, this one has 2.5 quart crocks.

One day, I left for the day and left everyone here plus a kid who likes to come over and hang out. Because I expected my adventures to take me over 100 miles away, before I walked out the door, I put in a batch of taco meat, a recipe of beans and smoked sausages, and another crock of chicken legs in General Tso sauce. Prior to that, I had made meatballs, spaghetti sauce, and BBQ pork. It's so easy to use this thing to make enough food for a few days' leftovers for lunches and snacks!
Thus, I named my slow cooker Cracky, and invited him into our home as a welcome family member.

Today, I wasn't feeling well and had a few errands to run, so before I left I set up a turkey breast, a pot of spaghetti sauce, and threw in some cauliflower with a mix of stuff from the fridge. I had a little bit of leftover cheese sauce, a little bit of beef broth, some fresh butter, and some cream so I mixed that up and sauced it with that. I figured it would become soup-like in nature.

6 hours later, everything was finished. Thing 1 and Thing 2 had pasta for dinner with meatballs while Alpha Man and I had turkey and cauliflower. He put spaghetti sauce and parmesan all over his turkey and just slopped the cauli onto his plate. It looked kind of like gruel... I ate a little turkey and 2 bowls of soup. It turned out so pretty, I was inspired to write this up. I dipped mine into a bowl and cut a few green onions on top of a sprinkle of cheese and a grind of pepper and he goes "I hate it when your food is prettier than mine," and I was like "You mean always?" Now, I will tweak the cauliflower recipe and maybe post it one day. It needed salt, but doesn't it look nice?