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The Margaret Fulton Crock Pot Cookbook 1982 edition is as you would expect from the early 1980’s. I removed it’s external cover to reveal a bare brown book with a funky white font. Fulton is a British born Australian food writer who brought global dishes into the homes …read more
We’re finishing up the year with a fun and festive classic reinvention of Swiss fondue, using chocolate and liqueur. I’m back at home with my parents this New Year’s Eve and being a child of the ’70’s I managed to dig out and dust off my mum’s …read more
While Meg was busy packing Doug up for college I packed for the beach and headed to the East Coast. With the absence of a slow cooker on our travels, ahead of time, I chose 3 super simple recipes to squeeze out the last few …read more
“You can make bread in a slow cooker?” they say, eyebrows raised, as we lift the lid off the slow cooker.
Our summer took an unexpected twist recently. What should have been an annual two week trip to the UK turned into a month long extended stay, due to an outage of the US Passport and Visa system, stranding tens of thousands of people worldwide including my …read more
Today is an exciting day for our small, young business the zen of slow cooking. Our first wholesale customer, Elawa Farm, is merchandising our zen blends on their beautiful store shelves. Tucked in neatly beside tangy mustards and delicious preserves, fresh produce and flowers, our blends compliment …read more
On one miserable, wet day in April, we celebrated Meg’s birthday. As a member of Kenilworth Garden Club, Meg’s sister Ann invited us to a presentation and lunch with James Farmer III. What greeted us inside was a perfect antidote to the grey day outside.
Fresh picked peas and strawberries taken straight from our Community Garden are the perfect finger food right now for my young girls living in the city. As always, my mind is on expanding my culinary repertoire. So when the raspberry canes are giving up their ripe …read more
We are debuting our visual Chocolate Cake recipe this week. Providing access to a more user friendly format for non-readers has been a key intention for the Zen of Slow Cooking. In the future we hope to produce one visual recipe a month.
When we lived in our French hideaway in the Gascony countryside, we started a Valentines tradition. In the post Christmas seasonal lull we start planning.
