Ok, this one comes VERY Hubby approved and recommended. He seems to throw this comment out kind of often, but apparently this was the, 'best meal this year.' Then I reminded him he said that about a pasta I made about a month ago, and so he said, "ok, this one is second place then." Then I reminded him that he said that about a dinner he had at a restaurant we went to on our anniversary and another dinner that we had a week after that at another restaurant. So, who knows really with him, but he definitely thought this was a keeper!
He put a cookbook into my stocking last year called The Best of Bridge - Slow Cooker Cookbook, and I have made only one or two things in it so far, but something triggered him to remind me of it this week. I told him to go get it off the shelf, choose anything in the book, and I would make it. The majority of the summer hasn't exactly been 'slow cooker bubbling away on the counter season,' on account of the heat wave, but a couple of weeks ago we were experiencing a bit of an Augtober that kind of put a 'damper' on things, and a CrockPot dinner seemed like just what the weatherman ordered. The 'Pork Adobo' recipe caught his eye, and thus a Wednesday night dinner was born. To be honest, it's probably something I would have turned the page on and never made if not for him choosing it this week. Ingredients like, 'cinnamon stick,' and 'whole clove,' aren't usually up my alley, but a deal was a deal and I made the dish anyways. Are we ever glad we did! The Hubby gave rave reviews, and I always especially know it's a good meal when he excitedly packs his leftovers for lunch the next day. He admitted afterwards that he chose the recipe because the cinnamon and clove seemed weird. Haha. Side note - a stick of cinnamon from the bulk section of our grocery store costs $0.03. A whole clove is too light to even register on the store's scale, so the cashier shrugged and put it into the bag for free. The bay leaves were the same way. I basically robbed the grocery store!!