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I no longer have my itty-bitty baby crockpot because water got into it when I was trying to clean off some stuff that had spilled over and cooked on, and even though it was probably perfectly fine, it only cost $10 and wasn't worth the worry of wondering if I could leave it alone all day. I mentioned to my mother that I was thinking of getting a bigger one anyway, since I could then have more than just the Low heat setting and lo and behold, when I was home for the weekend, we went out and purchased many many things, among them a 4-quart crockpot for myself.

All this is to say that I am christening it tonight with a made-up recipe which should be good anyway since it's not especially fancy. I had two packages of boneless pork rib meat that I bought on sale (Albertsons does good meat sales, doesn't it?) in the freezer, some baby carrots that I also bought on sale at a 10-for-$1 for baby carrot packages (I only bought 2 - I don't eat *that* many carrots :D), one potato (thought I had 2, but oh well), most of a large onion, and two *enormous* garlic cloves - Not kdding, easily the size of 3 normal cloves each salvaged from a head of garlic that was slowly going south. Dumped them all in, veg on bottom, meat on top - if I'd had the inclination I could have browned it and I'm sure it would taste better, but that would mean even more dirty dishes cluttering up my kitchen - poured a bottle of hard cider over it, and sprinkled with pink peppercorns ground up in a mortar and pestle (heh - the frist time I've ever owned one, so I went a bit crazy grinding things the other day) and a bit of smoked salt. Plug in, turn to low, will unplug and taste tomorrow morning, in about 8 hours.

If I'm not running late, I'll attempt to actually bring some for lunch, but somehow I don't see that happening, so I think it'll be dinner tomorrow. I ought to let it cook all day instead of all night, but if I prepared it tonight and stuck in in the fridge I'd forget to put it in the crockpot and start it tomorrow.

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And in other news, just moved one of my Journalfen icons over here, because perpetually-chewing Goku is just so appropriate for a journal entry on food.

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That sounds like good stew. Let me know how it turns out.

I took one quick bite of the pork before rushing out the door, and it tasted more-or-less like pork. I'll have to spend more time actually tasting the vegetables tonight. :D The pork was a leeeeeeeetle on the tough side, so either it cooked too long, or didn't cook quite enough, or I just grabbed a particularly tough piece to sample this morning. I'm inclined to overcooked, since it fell apart fine, it was already in pieces to start with instead of one big roast-type thing, and things seem to cook slightly faster than expected in my apartment, probably because of the voltage (I blow out lightbulbs on a regular basis, too, which I think is the fault of the current here - the same lamps didn't have this problem in the last apartment).