I have abandoned my
blog for a while as I was skiing at Italy last week. Sorry for keep
you waiting...
What I would like to talk about today is my slow cooker. If you have been reading the
Chinese version of my blog, you'll know I used it to make some
Guinness Beef Stew. I promised that I would explain how I came to own
a slow cooker:
July last year, my
local council wanted to encourage us not to waste food, so they
started a campaign called 'Love Food Hate Waste'. One of the events
was to ask local residents to provide a recipe which used some
leftover food.
When I was a child, I
loved to make Chinese fried rice (actually, I should say that except
for cooking fried rice, I would rather stay away from the kitchen as
much as possible). The origin of fried rice is that in the past,
people were very poor. They didn't want to throw away any leftover
food so they fried everything together. So, I submitted my version of
fried rice and it was picked to be included my local council's Cook
Book. The slow cooker was one of the prizes.
Other prizes were about
how to reduce food waste or help save the environment, for example: a
reusable shopping bag, a potato sack, etc. They are quite useful
actually!
