Crock Pots and crack pots

I love to use my slow cookers, but have a hard time finding basic recipes.  I suppose they can all be stated quite simply as " Insert vegetables, add meat, sprinkle with seasoning, and add moisture.  Put on the lid".  The hardest part is remembering everybody's likes, dislikes, and allergies.  It is just such a stress-free way of producing a hot meal at a convenient time ( i.e. when we want it, not according to the clock.)  Now that there are just the two of us, it's also an easy way of making one for now and one for the freezer, since slow cookers work best if full.  One of the nicest slow cooker meals I remember was when Daddy died and a neighbour brought over a full slow cooker that we plugged in and forgot, while we spent the day making arrangements.  Finally got home exhausted and there was supper--ready to eat.  Don't even know her name.  I have several cookbooks, but all the recipes seem to require bizarre ingredients, or things like bacon or curry powder, that we just don't eat.

My Tuesday Stitchers are meeting today, at the home of a friend who lives out north of Bird's Hill.  When we go there we make very complicated arrangements for car pooling.  Today two of the ladies are coming here, where we will all three jump into one lady's van before driving over to pick up a fourth.  This allows for the one who doesn't drive on the highway, and the one whose driving is such that none of us will travel with her, as well as the one who has trouble planning a complicated trip, so couldn't pick the other lady up, even though it was on her way.  Took awhile to set up.  Now I get up and it's raining.  The lady who owns the van doesn't drive in the rain. Ar-r-r-gh!  Looks like I may end up driving the bunch of us. 

The clock is still running but is gaining time.