The art of the slow cooker

For dinner, I am making "Game Hens Poelee with Spring Vegetables" from this book. I love my all-clad slow cooker with ceramic insert. It makes dinner so easy! Well for this recipe, Jeff cleaned up two small hens and split them. I browned them in a skillet, and set them aside while adding baby carrots, pearl onions, new potatoes, thyme, rosemary, garlic and artichoke hearts to the bottom of the slow cooker. I added the hens skin side up on top of the vegetables, and set it on low for 5.5 hours. Right before serving, I will add peas and tarragon. This morning, it took me only 10 minutes to do all this, and pretty soon the house will be smelling lovely.

(Both products pictured are from williams-sonoma... a store I adore!!)

House

Pleated Denim Purse

This was knit with made-in-Italy Elsebeth Lavold Hempathy; 34% hemp, 41% cotton and 25% modal in color 012 (navy blue). The pattern is from which is a fantastic book of modern and easy patterns. The purse is knit in two pieces, front and back. Then I used a mattress stitch to join them and blocked the piece. I bought the fabric and buttons at hobby lobby and sewed in the lining. This was my first time sewing! I used a magnetic clasp on the flap.