For those of you who recently (if not begrudgingly) got on the Paleo Wagon, you may have noticed an marked increase of energy, followed by a marked decrease in free time which has now been relegated to buying produce, cooking, weighing and measuring, packaging tupperware, and finally washing used tupperware. What little time I have between getting home from the gym and trying to get to bed to get those elusive 7 hours of sleep has become a blur of veggie chopping, egg boiling, meat chopping, and dish washing.
That is, until I rediscovered the Crockpot, a kitchen gadget that rivals even the Foreman Grill! While the Crockpot revolutionized the 70′s, single-handedly making it possible for women to escape the kitchen and enter the workplace, it soon lost its luster and was exiled to the far corners of our kitchen cabinets. However, it has certainly resurrected itself in my kitchen lately.
How’s this for simplicity: before bed, throw in a 2-3 lb chuck roast, some vegetable broth, half a bag of baby carrots, a chopped onion, some bay leaves, basil, and pepper (or buy the Mirapoix mix at TJ’s to avoid chopping onions and celery). Cover, set on low, and wake up to a deliciously tender hunk of lean meat ready to be divided into tupperware. Keep the stock.
Then, throw in a whole chicken into the broth, add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar (to extract the calcium from the bones as it cooks), desired spices, and cover. When you get home from work, you already have most of dinner ready.
What are your favorite paleo Crockpot recipes? Post to comments.
Rest Day 08.02.09
Great post and I couldn’t agree more about it’s convenience! A guy like me with limited kitchen skills can easily make an awesome meal (with some seasoning guidance from the wife, of course) with a crock pot.
Awesome post and you know I <3 my crockpot!
Btw, this post was just a ploy to get Marcus’ thai chicken curry crockpot recipe!
loved this post Ruth! can’t wait to try this one…you haven’t steered me wrong yet from the baba ghanoush, avocado pie and chard/kale in bacon fat. i may just take my crock pot to training in SLC!