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Chili recipies, people. Tell me how to put my crockpot to excellent use (rather than sort of bland use).

Also, pork chop recipies, no dairy, with less than 10,000 ingredients. If it works with a crock pot, even better!

The good sense to study more when there aren't tests bearing down on me.

Finally, the calm and perseverence necessary to hand-pollinate Arabidopsis. And do more studying.

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Lazy Thing I Made Up with Pork Chops and Hasn't Killed Me Yet

[wizardoffoo.livejournal.com]

Ingredients:

Pork chops (usually 3, or one non-Costco-sized package)
1 x Can of Diced Tomatoes (your choice of fanciful seasonings)
1 x Zucchini
Szechuan sauce to taste
Bit of garlic (just enough to tell whether the oil's hot)

Instructions:

1. Cut the zucchini into bite sized pieces. I usually quarter the zucchini on the long axis and cut them into 2cm long chunks. Slices work as well.
2. Slice the pork chops into strips as wide as the pork chop is thick.
3. Fire up the stir-fry pan on medium heat with a little oil and garlic. (if you're serving over rice like I do, this would be the time to get that started)
4. When the oil is hot as indicated by the garlic cooking, throw in the pork chops and stir-fry them until done. Throw in some szechuan sauce here if you would like some kick to your pork chops. While is this cooking, open up your can of tomatoes - you'll want to do this now rather than later.
4. After the pork chops are done, mix in the can of diced tomatoes and zucchini. Bring the mixture to a simmer and let it cook until the zucchini reaches your desired level of squishiness.
5. Serve (over rice).
Start to finish: about 30 minutes.

Adapted from some random pork chop recipie I found on the Internet sometime last year. Don't stress out over following the instructions to a T, I basically wing it each time trying little differences in choice and slice of ingredients. Come to think of it I may have shown you this one...

Something for the crock pot might be curry. With that it's pretty much brown your meat, throw in the crock pot with your choices of vegetables, a jar of premixed curry sauce, some water and go.

Re: Lazy Thing I Made Up with Pork Chops and Hasn't Killed Me Yet

[ase.livejournal.com]

Curry! Oh, curry! I like my food spicy.

I think I've seen a variant on the theme, certainly - what luck have you had with carrots?

Re: Lazy Thing I Made Up with Pork Chops and Hasn't Killed Me Yet

[wizardoffoo.livejournal.com]

Haven't done much with carrots outside of the frozen vegetable pack or the giant pot of curry / stew.