I call this a .5 because it really is just a new method of making things rather than a new recipe.



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With no working oven I had to get creative for holiday treats. I found this recipe and had to try it.



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Invited J&P over on Friday to experiment on them again. Well, I had promised P that I would cook 4 meals over the next bit of time as a "thank you" for agreeing to let J come be my travel companion in two weeks to Vegas.

I've had this one on my Pintrest for a while and decided that this was just as good at time as any to try it.

( Crockpot Creamy Ranch Pork Chops )

The grocery store had whole roasting chickens on sale for such a good price I really couldn't pass it up, despite not currently having a working oven. While it would have fit in my little convection oven, I wanted to try something else.

So off to the internet I went and found how to roast a chicken in the slow cooker.

( Slow Cooker Rotisserie Style Chicken )

From: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, by Deb Perelman (2012) ISBN 978-0-307-59565-2
Later found: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/01/mushroom-bourguignon/

I received the cookbook as a gift for Christmas and had instantly marked this as a "had to try" but needed the right reason to make it (other than it looked good). So, for the monthly "Game/Movie/Dinner Night that I have been trying to host, I decided to inflict my friends on a new recipe. After all, if you can't subject your friends to recipe experiments, who can you?

I doubled the recipe because I originally expected 6-7 people, but due to illness and other responsibilities, I ended up with just myself, J & P. So now I get lunches!

edit this is even better when it is given time to sit and let the flavors meld!

( Anyway, on to the reporting: )