Hope you're keeping warm this week... the beanie and gloves have come out for me down here in Melbourne! While I'm a big fan of the warmer weather (I need that sunshine to grow my tomatoes!), I find myself cooking much more in the cooler months... baking bread, cooking hearty soups, stews and curries, making rich pasta sauces and puddings, infusing a batch of mulled wine. I hate to sound so cliché, but gee I love my slow cooker during this time! I wrote my latest cookbook 'Modern Slow Cooker' during last year's winter, and while the book-writing process is stressful (always thinking "how can I add more value to you, the reader?"), it struck me just how wonderfully calm this style of cooking is. I miss the smell of delicious goodness wafting from the kitchen at literally every hour of the day... from breakfast when I woke up, to a meal ready to serve up at dinner time. My family and I would play cards with a hot toddy infusing in the slow cooker, happily keeping warm for whenever we were ready for top-ups. There was sticky date pudding brought to dinner at a friend's house that had been cooked that day in the slow cooker and effortlessly transported in the pudding steamer. That's the cook I want to be, the person I want to be... and here's the best bit, there's nothing aspirational about it! Because the blueprint is all set out for you (and me!) in 'Modern Slow Cooker'. This book is life-changing stuff, and I promise you ANYONE with a slow cooker and this book can cook delicious food they are proud to serve and share with EASE. They’ll be eating more healthily, more sustainably, saving money, saving time, caring for animals and stressing less! Sound good?
