Cost-effective cooking

[RoJoHen]

Also, if you want crock pot recipes, the best place to go is A Year of Slow Cooking. The author makes a new crock pot recipe every day and blogs it.

Hey, thanks for this link. I'm a huge crockpot fan - I use mine all the time - more often than my stove and oven (excepting baking) combined! This site will be very helpful.

I could never figure out how to use my crock pot without everything tasting dry, overcooked, and shitty. It sits and collects dust in my basement.

Put water in it.

 

[Holdfast]

Probably not

I must say though, what passes for Chorizo in Asda and Tesco is an effin disgrace.

No joke there. I had mine at the local deli/cafe, I hasten to add.

 

[Kestra]

My Aunt does this a lot. She has a mini-cake pan (eight loaf style cakes to a pan) and she'll make up mini meatloafs

Not sure why, but I hadn't heard of these before. Granted, I don't do a lot of baking, but reading that lead me to some interesting google searches, and I think I'll be picking some up. Mini cake pans are a pretty nifty idea for not only portion control but also baking faster. Same total amount of meat loaf, for example, done in 18 minutes vs. 75 minutes. I don't see a downside there.

I sometimes put the meatloaf in mini-muffin pans, though you could do a regular muffin pan for the same effect. It's great for portion control for me!

 

[Davros]

We do not share the same tastes. That sounds gross to me.

You might like this one better.
Cook up some rice, then make some hamburger patties in a frying pan and after they have browned poor in a can of rotel tomatoes and green chilies cook down the liquid a bit then serve over the rice.

 

[SmoothieX]

I blame the Italians and their tasty cured meats

What you do with Italian men in your own time.......

(...... is this the moment to confess to enjoying swalling a hot Spanish chorizo sausage a bit earlier on? )

Reminds me of the time I was in England and saw a place touting faggots and meat pies. I more or less had an idea of what they meant, but my cornhole still puckered involuntarily at first.

 

[BlazePin]

My Aunt does this a lot. She has a mini-cake pan (eight loaf style cakes to a pan) and she'll make up mini meatloafs and freeze them and them microwave them during the week for work lunches or a quick meal. She even cooks veggies an instant potatoes or baked then takes those little divided Rubbermaid / Tupperware bowls and makes up a meal. She says it saves her a bunch of time and money a month.

I've done the "tray meals" like she's down and I found that beef works best for freezing and reheating, especially tips.

oooh meatloaf.

 

[Holdfast]

I blame the Italians and their tasty cured meats

What you do with Italian men in your own time.......

(...... is this the moment to confess to enjoying swalling a hot Spanish chorizo sausage a bit earlier on? )

Reminds me of the time I was in England and saw a place touting faggots and meat pies. I more or less had an idea of what they meant, but my cornhole still puckered involuntarily at first.

... in anticipation?