the Posole

First, correction; it's posole not pesole. No wonder spell check didn't like the way I spelled it.

Second, it was really good. Especially for a slow cooker recipe. You can't find a recipe much easier than opening a couple of cans, and dumping them into the crockpot.

Okay, you actually have to drain and rinse the beans. But then you just dump them in. Plus a jar of salsa and hominy. Add some chicken broth and oregano, let it cook for 3 1/2 hours on high and you have dinner.

We added tortilla chips, shredded cheese (cheddar and monterey), and sour cream. That was dinner and it was good.

I'm just getting ready for Cinco de Mayo.

back-up plans

I have had this dinner planned for weeks.

I found a new recipe in a magazine and had ripped it out. I do that often.

I have a problem.

There are pages (and pages) of ripped out magazine recipes in my kitchen.

Back to the recipe for tonight's dinner, it's Posole. I think this is some kind of mexican soup. At least if one judges the soup by its ingredients.

Bill and I had a busy day. We went to the eye doctor so Bill could get new glasses. We cleaned the house and the yard. I did a couple loads of laundry. It was just before five o'clock when I started the Posole.

I pulled everything out of the cupboard, started to heat up the oven for some homemade tortilla chips and read through the recipe.

That's when I saw the words "slow cooker" and "six hours".

Whoops!

If I read through it, it was so long ago that I forgot it went into the slow cooker. I may not have read through it though because it was in a category for weeknight meals and I quickly (unfortunately incorrectly) assumed that meant it would be a "quick" meal to prepare.

It is not. Even if I put it in the slow cooker on high, it was still going to take three hours. We do not eat that late.

Instead we had the back-up dinner; mac and cheese with smoked sausage. Thank goodness for the back-up stash of mac and cheese.