Joe...I picked up a slow cooker at Costco before the holidays. Hadn't used one much before. After a coupon and rebate it was just under $25. I love it.

Last night's dinner was a spring mix salad, along with vegetable soup I'd made the day before in the slow cooker. Threw together a bunch of stuff: garden vegetables from the freezer (2 kinds of kale, tomatoes, leeks) along with garlic, sage, rosemary, carrots, canellini beans, a potato and a handful of rice...in a vegetable broth and white wine base. Came out pretty good!

Slow cookers are great for making something out of odds and ends you want to use up (like that handful of rice grin).


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