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[cjsmith]

1. Onion roast. Slice onions (kinda thick slices) to fill about 2/3 of your crock pot. Take a hunk of chuck small enough to fit on top of that, stick salt pork and whole cloves into it, and set it on the onions. Don't add anything else. Turn it on low for eight hours.

This is amazing. Every time I eat it, people come around twitching their noses and asking what smells so fabulous. I am eating my last unit of it right now, and sorry, Rob, but I'm going to make it again. (The entire house smells like onion soup for about 24 hours on this one.)

2. Frittata, mentioned elsewhere. Also scrumptious. I'm out of that now, too, and will be making it again.

Less amazing:

3. Seared beef with zucchini, onion, tomato, garlic, and basil. Brown a pound of ground beef for a couple minutes. Add chopped onion (about 1/2 an onion), sliced zucchini (1 zucchini), and chopped garlic (3 cloves). (I squooshed the garlic in my new garlic press instead.) Cook 'til veggies start to brown. Add a chopped-up tomato and a pile of chopped-up basil and cook until the tomato starts to dissolve. Add salt & pepper to taste.

I found this one to be sort of blah, but I admit it makes a nice change of pace. I have two servings of this one left.

Next up: mashed cauliflower.

Comments

[exvapi.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This I will do soon.

And I know what salt pork is, but folks not of the south sometimes think bacon and salt pork are interchangable.

Interesting to stick it into the chuck instead of puttting strips on top.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha.

I would not be surprised at all if omitting the salt pork and instead putting strips of bacon on or around the beef would come out just as scrumptious. In fact, I may try that at some point, because I don't have many other uses for salt pork in my kitchen but I do have bacon lying around pretty much all the time.