Slow Cooking for Two

Don’t be daunted by slow cooking; the time it will take you to prepare your meals will actually be less than cooking with fast methods; in fact, while you are frying a steak, for example, you cannot take your eye off it, as you risk burning it, but when you slow cook your food, all you really need to do is prepare all the ingredients, put them in your slow cooker or crock pot (or even in the oven) and come back to a fully cooked and delicious meal hours later.

But this is only one of the many advantages of slow cooking; in fact, by slow cooking your meals you will preserve all the nutrients of the ingredients that you cook; your food will be rich in vitamins and proteins, therefore it will be much healthier.

Slow cooked food is also much tastier, as high temperatures ruin the flavours of food. Moreover, you do not need to add any extra fats to your food, so you will be eating delicious meals that do not make you put on weight.

And if you thought that by slow cooking your meals your energy bills will go up you are mistaken: most of the heat in frying, for example, is dispersed into the environment while slow cooking makes use of all the heat you use to cook your food.