The 'crock pot" or slow cooker

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The 'crock pot" or slow cooker

Postby RoughShod » Thu May 13, 2010 9:25 pm

When I started to get interested in being vegan my dad asked me why on earth would I want to do that. He is almost 90 years old now and consumes fat from meat quite voluptiously. If we grill meat over a fire and the fat drips from it and we take it off to consume it, I usually cut off the fat...and without fail he will ask for that portion and eat it. I am surprised he is not the 'right whale' by now . He surprisingly is still quite trim except for a slightly floppy belly. So I had to explain to him that I am firm everywhere, but lately my belly seems to be renegading on me. If I pull it tight, it seems firm and I can give it a hearty blow without too much discomforture....but if I relax it becomes like jelly that wobbles with the softest touch.

So I told him how I read up on the net about vegan diets, how I read in the bible about Daniel refusing the kings rich meats, and prefferring instead to eat vegetables and water and turning out after ten days to look far healthier than his other peers not on the same diet...that Elijah seemed to have learner profets eating soup from vegetables that at one stage seemed to contain poisen that was neutralized by throwing salt in it...etc . I also read that eating lentils seemed to have the ability to distribute body fat more evenly around the body instead of one central place....you guessed it....the midriff section.

After trying a bean lentil diet without meat for awhile I noticed I no longer was as hungry through the day as I used to be. I nowadays only eat one meal and that is at night. I always became hungry during the day...sometimes even waking up hungry.Yet I put on weight.
My attempt at vegan did not last very long and I bought a kilo of sausage and consumed half of it the same day...fat and all. But then vegetable stock caught my attention.

So the slow cooker loomed on my culinary horizon.

I am now ready to go to a bar, so any comment from now on might be seasoned with more than a need for decently flavoured food. What are your comments on the various means of preparing food for not only health but perhaps romance too :drunken:
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