I pretty much think I’m in love with my slow cooker. I’ve made two meals in it since Sunday and I love, love, love how easy it is to cook in a slow cooker! I was off yesterday because of Veteran’s Day, so I chopped up some veggies and tofu in the morning and threw them and some curry-appropriate ingredients into my slow cooker and let them all get to know each other for the next 8 hours. I actually did use a recipe – it’s the one for the No Hurry Vegetable Curry from Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson. The only changes I made were to leave out the peas, add in a block of cubed tofu and I also added in a whole can of light coconut milk and a little (about two tablespoons) of Instant Clear Jel to thicken up the sauce. I think I could avoid having to do this next time by reducing the amount of broth from two cups to one and still adding in a whole can of coconut milk. I also adjusted the seasonings slightly by adding in a tablespoon of red curry paste in addition to the two tablespoons of curry powder called for in the recipe. I don’t have a picture of the final product, but if you can visualize a curry, you know what it looked like. It was really, really good and so incredibly easy! I was going to throw tonight’s dinner into the slow cooker this morning, but it turned out that I didn’t have all the ingredients. I’ll pick those up tonight and get something going in the slow cooker for tomorrow night.
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I’ve been tagged by Bethany for a fun meme that asks me to highlight random facts about myself. Here are the rules for the meme:
- Link the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links.
- Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Yeesh. This is tough, but let me see what I can come up with…
1. I was recently nominated for a college-wide (I work at a university) staff excellence award for being such a valuable employee even though my job is so boring that all I do for 30 hours a week from mid-April through mid-October is look at the Internet. I find out tomorrow if I won the award. There’s money involved, so wish me luck!
2. I really, really struggled with credit card debt from the minute I stepped onto my college campus in 1994 when I was just 17 years old until I paid off my debt in April 2007 – one month after my daughter was born. Having a child has really helped me to get all of my debt issues in order and I am so happy to say that I have $0 in credit card debt! Yippee!
3. My favorite TV show of all time is Felicity. I think season 4 was the best season, even though the second half of it focused on a strange time-travel plot. I was always rooting for Felicity to choose Ben over Noel and I could never stand the character of Julie and was so happy when she left at the beginning of season 3. I think even when I’m 60 years old, I’ll still love Felicity. Let’s hope my DVDs still play in another 30 years!
4. In 2005, I walked the Columbus Marathon as a member of Team In Training. Walking a marathon might sound like a weird thing to do, but I refuse to run unless I’m being chased. I am so invigorated by walking, but I find running incredibly painful. I walked the 26.2 miles in 6 hours and 19 minutes. It was one of the best days of my life. I stayed on that “high” for the next two days until I all of the sudden crashed in the middle of Whole Foods and started bawling my eyes out.
5. I had a roommate about 8 years ago that I was really good friends with and we also worked together. Our roommate relationship didn’t end well and I haven’t talked to her since we both moved out. I’ve seen her a few times over the last 8 years, but if we made eye contact, we just pretended not to recognize each other. Not being able to fix that relationship is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
6. My husband’s name, my name, and my daughter’s name all begin with the letter “J”. When we have a second baby, I worry that if we don’t give him/her a “J” name, he/she will feel from the beginning like the black sheep of the family. However, I’m having a hard time coming up with any more “J” names that I really like!
7. If I could live anywhere, it would be San Francisco (I did live there for a short, short while 11 years ago), but if I could visit anywhere (that I haven’t already visited) it would be Japan. However, I’m such a homebody, that I don’t foresee much travel in my future at all – at least until my hubby and I become empty-nesters.
Phew! I did it. Seven random things about myself. Now I have to figure out who to tag.
Okay…so I made my choices and here they are. Let me preface this list by saying that I totally understand that some bloggers – maybe even the ones I’ve selected – aren’t into memes. If any of them don’t want to participate, that’s cool. An 8th random thing about myself, though, is that I am a major “rules” person and I would have had much anxiety if I wouldn’t have followed the rules of this meme and selected 7 bloggers to tag.
1) Jen at That Pain in the Ass Vegan
2) Lisa at Cravin’ Veggies
3) Jessy at Happyveganface
4) Renae at I Eat Food
5 & 6) Aly and Maureen at Mad About Udon
7) Bianca at Vegan Crunk
I hope everyone has a great day and hopefully I’ll be back soon with more slow cooker goodies!
