The New Crockpot

 Today I used the new crockpot but I will be using it more next week and will make another post once I've made a real meal. It's called a "Multi-Meal" so I start calling it that so you know I'm talking about the new one. By the way, at Sam's Club yesterday, I saw the full size pot like this one. It was $59. It wasn't the one you can cook two meals in but I had to laugh because you can buy two of those or less than I paid for the one multi-meal. In those two big ones, you could cook two BIG meals at the same time. But . . the Multi-Meal is so cute!  :)

OK . . what I cooked today:

On the right side (Side 2), I have Apple Crisp cooking. I used this recipe and only made half the recipe. It had not yet started baking when I took that photo and I meant to take a photo when it was finished and forgot.

The Apple Crisp turned out great. I will definitely use this recipe again. I cooked it on high for 2 hours, then removed the lid and left it on warm for about half an hour while we were finishing our meal.

You can't see much of the apple crisp under the ice cream. I made vanilla ice cream in the Ninja Creami and, as always, it's delicious!

Notes on Apple Crisp:

I used organic sprouted oat groats and used the flaker to roll them so they're a bit thicker than old fashioned oats.

The top of this dish doesn't get a bit toasty like it does when cooked in the oven but it was delicious and easy enough that I will definitely make it again in this cooker.

Notes on Steamed Veggies:

Someone had mentioned that if you have one side on high, the other side will get hotter than it would on low. I wanted to see how this would work so for the first hour the apple crisp was cooking, I had water in the vessel on the left side. I kept sticking my finger in it to see how hot it got. The water got warm but barely warm and the other side was on high.

The default for the steamer setting was 14 or 15 minutes. I left it at that and the broccoli and carrots were perfect.

The only complaint I have is that the grid for the steamer tray has spaces a bit larger than I would prefer. I started out cutting the carrots into rather thick "coins" but they were falling through into the water. I started cutting the carrots into "logs" about 3" long. If the carrots were bigger, I would slice those in half lengthwise and that worked fine.

Next week or maybe this weekend, I'll cook a meal in the Multi-Meal and report back. We're still working on leftovers!  If anyone is wondering, we had leftover Salisbury Steak with mushroom gravy and mashed potatoes with the steamed carrots and broccoli.