[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Crockpot (Was: Crackpot!)

[Kathryn Lambert]

Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:          > Jen: Yes, that's it exactly, all that prep stuff. I think it's an
art and people either have the gift or don't. Yep, kindred spirits
Carol! Maybe you'd like grill cooking too. :)

Carol responds:
Anecdote time. Back when I was married (in the Oligocene, I think), my
husband did the barbecuing on a gas grill. When we divorced, I got
custody of the grill but never used it (didn't know how), so I decided
to sell it before moving from a house in New Mexico to an apartment in
Arizona. When I was showing it to a prospective buyer, I thought I had
been scorched (even though the barbecue was not hooked up or turned
on) and drew back my hand with a cry of pain. Turns out I had put my
hand on a yellow-jacket's nest built on the underside of the barbecue
and been stung (second time in my life that I brilliantly put my hand
directly on top of a yellow-jacket I didn't see. The first time, I was
six, and it was on my head.) Surprisingly, the man really wanted that
nice barbecue and bought it anyway, yellow jacket nest and all. I
suppose the wasp(s) got nicely roasted the first time he turned it on.

Carol, who has no room for a gas grill now and can't stand the smell
of lighter fluid for a charcoal grill (hopeless, I know)
   
  ***Katie: 
  Oooh, me my hubby love to bar-b-que! Not gas grills, but the real thing. We're big campers, too, and we love cooking over an open flame...be it in the woods or in our back yard.
  I have to say I think grilling is actually more difficult and time-consuming than regular cooking, if you aren't just tossing hot dogs and burgers on. But we love making our own marinades, and cooking everything from veggie kabobs to fish to steaks. 
  I think cooking and baking are just in ya, or they aren't. I have been baking from the time I was a toddler, and grew up in family that never made anything from a mix and with a mother who baked fresh bread every weekend because she couldn't stand store-bought bread! And my hubby is from abig Italian family...so, we have cooking in the blood. 
  But, as I mentioned before, during the work-week, we live on bagels, cereal, fruit, and sandwiches...so the only time we get to cook is on weekends. : (  
  Katie, whose dreams of being a chef were crushed by realizing how much money it costs to go to culinary school, but lives vicariously through "Top Chef" every season. ; )


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