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ZWT8-Virtually Travelling the World!~Main Thread
This Challenge showcases the Slow Cooking & Crock-Pot Forum
Start Date: July 20
End Date: July 31 deadline midnight Zaar Time
Player Limit: 3 per team
Points: 5 (per person for a possible 15)
Challenge Type: Individual Cooking
ZWT8 All Players Cookbook ~ France
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To understand the French is to understand their love affair with food. The French are known for their taste in high quality fashion, entertainment, and travel. And this quality taste is reflected in their culinary habits as well. There’s no denying it…the French love their food. But what they seem to love more is the atmosphere that food – the preparation and the eating – can create. The French have a certain reverence for culinary rituals that is steeped in years of tradition. For them, meals, no matter how small, should be shared with family and friends, and should be eaten slowly, so that all gathered can enjoy the full benefit of the meal and each other’s company.
Commonly, traditional Sunday family gatherings revolve around the home dinner table, where the food is prepared lovingly over many hours and consumed leisurely through a bevy of appetizers and main courses, usually accompanied by a number of wines and lively discussion.
For this challenge, we are going to prepare a meal (or part of a meal) in a Crock Pot. In France, the slow cooker is called “une mijoteuse“— a simmer-er.
You probably know already, you simply place the ingredients in the Crock Pot, plug it in, and turn it on. This leaves you plenty of time to spend the day as you like with family and friends, knowing that you will end up with a delicious homemade meal ready and waiting for you. And the inviting smells from your kitchen can be a diner’s dream come true.
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Here are a few tips to adapt recipes to the slow cooker:
* Choose stews and braises that call for tougher cuts that are great simmering cuts such as beef and lamb stew meat, beef short ribs, pork shoulder, meaty chicken pieces (legs and thighs), bone-in pork chops, lamb blade chops and baby-back pork ribs.
* Find another slow-cooker recipe you know and trust that calls for the same kind of meat in roughly the same amount. Use the cook times in this recipe as a guideline for your French recipe.
* Your slow cooker should always be at least 1/2 full, but less than 2/3 full.
* Trim excess fat from the meat and cut the meat as needed to fit into the cooker.
* Brown the meat as indicated in the recipe and place it in the slow cooker. Follow instructions for preparing the cooking liquid (usually this includes sauteing onions and garlic and adding some wine, broth and seasonings, and cooking it down a bit). However, use only one-half the amount of liquids called for in the original recipe. (That is, if a recipe calls for 1/2 cup vermouth and 1/2 cup chicken stock, use 1/4 cup of each).
* Pour the cooking liquid over the meats. Cook according to the timings given in your tried-and-true slow-cooker recipe, checking at the earliest point in the range given.
* If there are finishing touches to the original recipe (such as dairy products or sautéed vegetables added at the end of cooking), do this about 1/2 hour before your recipe is finished.
* If the recipe calls for removing the meat and simmering the liquids to reduce them, you can do this in the slow cooker, uncovered, on high. It may take a while, so if you’re in a hurry, transfer the liquids to a pan and do this on the stove top.
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1. Please select a recipe from the ZWT8 All Players Cookbook ~ France that you feel can be adapted to Crock Pot cooking. It does not have to be a recipe for an entire meal or dish. You may pick any recipe that can be converted to crock pot cooking - breads, desserts, stocks, sauces, soup bases, etc.
2. Adapt the recipe for the Crock Pot.
3. Prepare your adapted recipe.
4. Submit your adapted recipe as a new recipe to the site (with credit to the original recipe and poster).
5. Post your completion in this thread and give a brief description of what changes you made to the original recipe. Please include links to both the ‘original’ and ‘new’ recipe in your post.
Please remember to:
~ Post your Recipe Selection in this thread. Include your team name and banner.
~ Prepare the recipe and post your review and photos (if any were taken) as usual to the recipe.
~ Post your completion in this thread. (Include your team name).
Bon Appetit!
“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
-- Julia Child, My Life in France
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