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Too busy at work and too tired to cook? Even if we are a whiz a cooking, cooking can be a hassle and a pain if you have a 12-hour job, kids and absolutely no time to prepare the ingredients for cooking. If only we were rich and hire our own cook to do the cooking for us. If only we have a wonderful spouse who can surprise us with great-tasting dishes once we get home from work. If only our kids know how to cook. But alas, the times are against us, and we often have to resort to processed and frozen meals or fast food and take outs. However, this can be a bane – it vacuums money out of our wallets, makes our bellies even wider and clogs our arteries to the brink of giving us a heart attack.
Fortunately, there is still hope. There are ways on how to have good food at home, without the hassle of rushing work just to get back home and cook. One solution is to prepare the food at night or the day before workday. Whip up the dishes, and then store them in the refrigerator while we are at work. Once we get home, we can microwave them to heat it up and enjoy a fresh tasting pasta or casserole. Having a crock pot or a Dutch oven helps in storing the ingredients ready for cooking.
A Dutch oven is a cooking pot made of cast iron. It comes in various sizes, but it is generally handy for carrying it around. One might think that only stews can be cooked in a Dutch oven, but for the avid camper, they can cook a variety of meals – from bread and biscuits, chicken, pork and veggies, to soup, stew and noodles. You can boil, roast, fry and steam food in it.
Crock pots and Dutch ovens are especially good for slow cooking. For example, we can use them for slow cooking most frozen meat and poultry, which needs at least four or five hours for it to get soft. Other recipes have 12 hours tops to slow cook, so we can always prepare the ingredients and store them before hand, and slow cook the stuff the following day while we are at work kissing up to the boss or at church thanking God for our everyday meals. If you want to look for slow cooking food, you can refer to a Dutch oven recipe book or a Dutch oven ebook
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