Crockpot Pulled Pork and Crab Cakes

This weekend, I tried out two new recipes which are worth noting and will definitely count as food blog entries once I get around to writing about them and putting them up on Brooklyn Forager.

The first was Ina Garten's crabcakes with remoulade.  I was nervous about these since the first few turned out crumbly and not quite browned enough.  My husband thanked me for the early errors since he got to try them out and once I got in my groove, the recipe got the Austin seal of approval. 

The second was pulled pork sandwiches.  I have actually debated using this one in the challenge because the whole recipe called for making biscuits from scratch.  I was traveling with my food and didn't want to cram too much into the morning before I headed to the party I was cooking for and also wasn't sure how the biscuits would keep.  The pork itself turned out very well and was such an easy crockpot recipe that I will be making it again.  I figured that's enough to count it as a new recipe even without the biscuits!

24. Use Crockpot 60 Times

On the snowy day we had at the end of last week, I pulled together a kitchen clean-up crockpot meal that turned out very nicely.  I used sirloin steak tips, local red creamer potatoes, onions, green beans and zucchini and made a fairly healthy Red Curry Beef Stew.  Look for the post at www.bklynforager.com later this week.  It was great for a cold snowy night and heated up very easily to feed us throughout the weekend.  

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Cooking up a storm

To start out the 101 things challenge, I got a number of things started today.

Tried 2 new recipes: southwestern beef brisket from smitten kitchen (will post soon) and Chinese marbled tea eggs from Steamy kitchen (another post to come).  I haven't eaten them yet, but will be tasting them later tonight. 

Use the crockpot: the beef brisket is a crockpot recipe.  Two birds, meet my one stone!

Took a yoga class at Yoga People in Brooklyn - gentle restorative yoga which was a great way to ease into the new year.  I'm finding a bit of back discomfort when I am done, so I have to figure out what exactly is going on. In general, it's a great class though, so it will be repeated in the future.

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