I requested a certain cookbook for Christmas and one of my daughters delivered! It's Emeril Lagasse's Sizzling Skillets. Lots of Big Pot meals, Skillet meals, Crock-Pot meals, and Wok meals.I should explain. Mr. Dancing Bear does a wonderful job keeping me nourished while I'm slaving away over a sewing machine or a quilting machine. He does such a good job that for a while I didn't cook at all ... nada ... zilch...zip. And during the summer I really am not interested in cooking. So Mr. Dancing Bear does it all. Now that winter is here, it's a different story! I love good ol' fashion comfort food ... I love one-pot and crock-pot cooking. There's nothing better than getting up early in the morning, firing up the crock-pot, and then settling down for about 8 hours of quilting, knowing that a delicious meal will meet me at the end of the day. So when I saw this cookbook I knew that I wanted it for Christmas ... and let me tell you, it is WONDERFUL! We had the crock-pot pork loin with fruit last night and tonight we're having the Chicken in a Pot (picture below). Doesn't it look scrumptious?? And I have finally figured out that the scrumptious-ness is in the seasonings. I have used Emeril's Essence for several years now and it does make a difference ... can be found in the seasonings dept of your grocery.
So, back I go to quilting ... there's Chicken in a Pot upstairs, simmering away ... and I'm a happy Dancing Bear! And on Sunday maybe we'll have the Mushroom and Fall Squash Barley Risotto. Yum!!
