Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:18 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> > wrote:
>
>> On May 29, 5:11 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>>
>>> > wrote:
>>>> Why hot just make the crockpot meal on a day you're home, and freeze
>>>> in small portions the results? Then, on a workday, you can pull a
>>>> frozen portion that morning and let thaw in the fridge.
>>> On a day one is home why would they use a crockpot? I despise the
>>> results from a crockpot, canned is better. But on days I'm home I
>>> cook conventially and prepare amounts large enough to freeze several
>>> portions.
>> Woe is me - I realized that after i hit send. But dared not another
>> piggy back post.
>>
>> When I do a cooking marathon, I never use the crockpot, come to think
>> of it.
>>
>> When are you not home? I thought you were one of those lucky retired
>> dudes.
>
> I never worked so hard before I retired, but I do what I want when I
> want and as much or as little as I want, and most importantly no one
> tells me. Actually I'm mostly always home but I don't have a kitchen
> out on the back forty. During good weather I don't have much time to
> cook, today was a very stormy day, even tornado warnings. I slow
> cooked 3 pounds of kielbasa with two big cans of B&M baked beans. I
> simmered the sausages (barely simmered) for two hours. Then drained,
> added the beans and simmered (barely simmered) about 4 hours. Now I
> needn't cook for three days.
> That's one ominous sky:
> http://i46.tinypic.com/t63qqo.jpg
>
> And then the sky opened:
> http://i47.tinypic.com/1zplf68.jpg
>
> Then the sun... look carefully down that forest path:
> http://i48.tinypic.com/11qiufa.jpg
>
> I didn't see that girl until after I down loaded:
> http://i45.tinypic.com/4uf7mf.jpg
>
> The tele from some 1,500' makes that path look short but it's 600'
> long, takes me the better part of a day to do maintenence just inside
> that path, and it's hot, humid, and unbelieveably buggy. My back
> forty begins at the far end of that path, can spend a week there and
> hardly make a dent.

Lovely! We finally had a thunderstorm here tonight after being
threatened by such for days.

--
Jean B.