Nap is over, it is time to cook dinner.
By marguicha
@marguicha (229617)
Chile
March 6, 2023 5:06pm CST
Nap time is over now and it is not so hot. So I will start to cook dinner now. I am thinking about marinating the meat and then sealing it and use my Dutch oven to simmer until fovever. I´m not much interested in spending time in cooking and the Dutch oven can make a meat that is a little tough so soft that it can be cut with a spoon.
What I like about using today the Dutch oven is that Anita can wash it on Wednesday. My hands are getting so frail that I am afraid to let the pot go and land on my feet.
I have onions, carrots, sweet peppers and, at the end, some tender green beans. Do you always prepare casseroles the same way or you vary them depending on what´s in the fridge? For me, the final recipe is the refrigerator
I have onions, carrots, sweet peppers and, at the end, some tender green beans. Do you always prepare casseroles the same way or you vary them depending on what´s in the fridge? For me, the final recipe is the refrigerator9 people like this
11 responses
@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
I don´t have a slow cooker. I have the Dutch oven and a pressure cooker. But I prefer to cook casseroles in the Dutch oven. The taste of the juices are better.
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@DianneN (247154)
• United States
7 Mar 23
@marguicha Slow cookers can taste just as well. Hubs complemented the last beef stew which I browned and then popped into the slow cooker.
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
@DianneN I am not buying more kitchen gadgets. I decided after the pandemia that I would stop making giant parties for my birthday. So I invite 2 couples at the most. I like to cook but try to cook as little as I can because my fingers hurt a lot. The big Dutch oven can cook enough to make 3 or 4 batches of very good and juicy meat stews. Yesterday I decided that I would buy the meat for stews at a butchers and not at the supermarket. I thought for a moment that I could buy a Thermomix but then I said no. With that money I could pay for the best restaurants for the rest of my life
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
I have stopped using cook books. My fridge is the boss
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@wolfgirl569 (127314)
• Marion, Ohio
7 Mar 23
@marguicha I only use a recipe for the first time making something. And my goodies 
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
@wolfgirl569 Right. Once I bought the best crab meat to make crab pie to special company. I read about 5 different recipes as it was the first time I was doing it and decided that I would use twice the amount of crab as I had bought too much. My recipe was much better, of course
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@Tina30219 (82980)
• Onaway, Michigan
7 Mar 23
I hope you enjoy it once it is done.
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
It was good but the onion juice over the rice was better than the meat. I won´t buy that cut any longer.
@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
@Tina30219 It is not bad, but I like meat with more fat than this one had.
@Tina30219 (82980)
• Onaway, Michigan
7 Mar 23
@marguicha Sorry to hear about the meat but glad you enjoyed the rice and onion juice
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
I always wanted to have a Dutch oven but never had it first in my list. Then, some years ago, I showed it to my friend Alejandra while window shopping telling her that I used to want one in my youth. On my birthday she asked me what I wanted for a present and I said (as I do now) to bring something to drink as I´d have all the eatables. She called the rest of my friends and they bought it as a present from all of them. I was a widow already and would never have had enough money to buy it then. So this, as many other pots and pans, has an added value.
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@LadyDuck (489867)
• Italy
8 Mar 23
@marguicha - Your friend Alejandra has been so kind. The Dutch oven is expensive. I bought many years ago when we still lived in Monte Carlo. I take good care of it.
@rakski (149376)
• Philippines
7 Mar 23
@marguicha good for you. Sometimes I have more, sometimes less
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@Adie04 (17353)
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9 Mar 23
@marguicha Good! Take a nap when and where necessary. Nap is good for boosting energy 
@celticeagle (183823)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Mar 23
Sounds wonderful. We are having fish fillet and macaroni salad. I try to vary them by ingredients and the herbs I use.
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
I bought a very expensive fish last time so I´m saving it for guests.
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@RasmaSandra (92356)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Mar 23
That sounds delicious. Usually, I put whatever meat I have and veggies into my slow cooker and then let it cook for hours and I have a meal,
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
There´s nothing really that can really ruin a casserole
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@LindaOHio (209612)
• United States
7 Mar 23
I used to cook based on the fridge.
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@marguicha (229617)
• Chile
7 Mar 23
I ate a very nice dinner. Today I will not eat that but will have it for tomorrow as Anita will come to help me.
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