my parents gave me a new slow cooker for christmas. i've wanted one for awhile - when i used to watch food network shows, i saw all these fabulous meals that were cooked in slow cookers! they looked so good, and i was dying to try them. also, if i find easy, good slow cooker recipes, that means tony can assemble them when he gets up in the morning, and i don't have to worry about making the dinner at night! :-)
this was the first dish i made in the slow cooker. it was awful. awful awful awful awful. to make it, i put ~ 6 lbs of short ribs in with some chicken broth, sugar, soy sauce, fresh ginger, sambal oelek (chili paste), sesame oil, fresh garlic and green onions. sounds really good, right?
perhaps i used the wrong meat. this is totally possible! the meat did become extremely tender, but there was so much fat in the ribs that i used that there ended up being more congealed fat than tender meat in my "soup."
also, the bones turned into this soft, pliable rubber-like texture. they looked so disgusting - the memory of them turns my stomach.
and, if i ignore both the congealed fat and the gushy bones, there was no flavor in the broth! i had to dump a bunch of soy sauce in to make it barely palatable.
suffice it to say, this was a total failure. tony has since made two more slow cooker dishes - beef tacos and guiness beef stew. the tacos were ok - they were a bit too spicy though, so tony and i both ended up with upset stomachs. the beef stew was awesome. it had an authentic irish taste to it, and it was definitely the best beef stew i've ever had. :-) i definitely will keep experimenting with the slow cooker. i know there are some more good dishes out there.
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