Slow cooker budget stew – plus a new series!
Ragout and stew
It was a very quiet, stick around home with no plans kind of long Labor Day weekend, and I spent a good portion of my time reading. As a family, we finished reading C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew, and I also finished Mere Christianity, also by Lewis. It was a lovely book that really moved me, and I plan to eventually write about it, but in the mean time, there was a passage about marriage which I enjoyed quite a bit. In it, he compares the excitement of first falling in love with your mate, to the feelings of staying in love, which lead in to what he calls a sort of "quiet love." " 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it." Isn't that a nice way to put it? I thought so. At this point however, you may be asking yourself what a passage about love and marriage has to do with a budget stew you make in a crockpot, and I'm
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