Meet My Slow Cooker!

Pork and Tomato Stew?? I received it around noon yesterday, when I was getting ready to leave my apartment for work. After coming back from my daytime work at around 4:30 pm, I opened the box right away and took out my dear slow cooker! It was much bigger than I thought, which was good because I can cook a big amount at one time and eat it for lunch, supper and late-night supper on a very busy day. On my way back from work, I bought pork and vegetables for my very first slow-cooker cooking. This time I chopped the meat and vegetables into very big chunks. (For potatoes, I didn’t even chop them.) I sautéed, seasoned and threw them into the slow cooker, then added chicken stock, tomatoes (chopped and cooked briefly in a frying pan), bay leaves, thyme and more salt and pepper. I set the timer for 5 hours on “high” and left my apartment again for the work at izakaya. While working there last night, I was always thinking about how my slow cooker must be doing its job. Then I came home, riding my bicycle in a hurry, and this was what was waiting for me! It was a gloomy, cloudy day, with a little rain in the afternoon, and it turned pretty cold later at night. Riding a bicycle back to my apartment at around 11:30 pm was not a very pleasant thing to do. Can you imagine how happy I was with this dish? …. Everything was soooooo soft and tender, even the biggest potato! It was just absolutely heavenly.(I added a little butter about 5 minutes before eating it.) And this was my brunch this morning. :)