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My Life After Coming Home Essay

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After leaving university I got a job in the South many miles away from my home town so I had to set up my new home. It took me a while to find the place that I wanted but once settled I started about doing it up and making it mine.

My parents were extremely supportive. My father helped with the DIY and my mother helped equip my kitchen. Amongst the many pots and pans that got handed down was a slow cooker and I have to say that it got put in the cupboard and never saw the light of day.

Leading a busy life, it was my first job and I was putting lots of hours in so little time was left for cooking and for sure I didn 't leave enough time in a morning to throw some ingredients into the slow cooker so that when I got home something warm was waiting for me. …show more content…

When I got married that was it, there just simply wasn 't enough cupboard space for the crock pot and it was killed and went off to join the other slow cookers in the sky.

But wait! I 've now discovered what truly is slow cooker heaven and maybe if I repent by writing this article I may at last be redeemed. I 've always been into outdoor grilling and comparatively recently got into the low and slow techniques used by meat smokers and as I 've learned more and more about the process it 's become clear how the two types of cooking are intertwined.

When you break it down to the essentials, barbecue cooking is all about slow roasting over a long period of time in a humid atmosphere whilst passing smoke over the meat. Now I accept that passing smoke through a crock pot isn 't going to happen but the rest of it can, after all what is a crock pot if it isn 't a low temperature, humid

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