The well named 'family' restaurant that we went to on Friday is over-hyped, in our opinion. Sure, they have a child's menu and the designer Stokke high chair. The child's menu even came with those gadget that you can look into and click to change the picture. But guess what they over-looked! Something as simple as children's cutlery! Baby K's spaghetti bolognaise came in a big ceramic bowl which she could fit her face into if she goes too near her food, the smaller version of the fork and knife came in *yikes* stainless steel and her apple cordial was in a glass cup. Oh, I ended up drinking her apple cordial as it was too sweet! Too much sweetener or ribena! But the saving grace was, we didn't have to queue to get in. Maybe because we were there for dinner at 5ish. But at least we tried the restaurant once. Lol.
And yesterday, we went to town and got ourselves a thermal pot! Yay...I have been thinking of getting one but never really needed it until now, that is with the love of our life back home with us. I hope we make use of it more often and not like the 'happy call' which have seen been relegated to the back of the cabinet.
I prepared ingredients for soup this morning. It was easy. I just peeled 3 potatoes, 1 carrot, 2 sticks of celery and added the blanched pork ribs to boil in the inner thermal pot. After it started boiling, I transferred the inner pot back into the main pot and when we came back home for dinner about 8 hours later, the soup was still so warm and the meat so tender! I never had the patience of conventional soup cooking and it takes up so much time, adding water and can you imagine the amount of gas consumed! Even with slow cooker, you have to add in water every now and then.
Lucky for us, when we went to buy the thermal pot, there was a promotion going on and we received a 1.5 litre thermal pot for free! I can't wait for next week again when we go marketing on Saturday and I'll buy more ingredients for soup making! :)
I quite like said restaurant leh... anyway what's the diff between slow cooker and thermal pot? been using slow cooker to cook b's porridge and sometimes worn we go out and not in time to cook his second porridge, have to give cereal. always on the lookout for things that can make my life easier or at least multi task
ReplyDeleteI guess when you have a child, you look out for different things. Food wise, not that fantastic or 'healthy' really.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between a slow cooker and thermal pot is that the slow cooker is plugged into the power point at all times during cooking and at times, you need to top up the water. As I mentioned in my entry, with the thermal pot, you just need to transfer the entire inner pot after it has boiled for over 10 mins or so and the actual thermal pot will self-generate the heat to continue 'cooking'. Google it! Definitely a good investment.