winter's my favourite season, for a bunch of practical reasons: the snow (can't have water issues if the water stays outside your house), the cold (guilt-free staying inside!), no-expectations dressing in old jeans and rumpled, heavy shirts. but the real reason is because it's slow cooker season, and we use ours at least once a week. chicken for tacos; five-spice pork roast over sweet potatoes and rice; & stew, & chili, & ...
we picked up our slow cooker more than twenty years ago. it was practical: a way of saving money when we were broke students and had very little money to spend on foods. we got one of the smaller ones. it came with a cookbook. the cookbook was singularly awful. we made two things from it, and never touched it again.
but once october rolls around, i rummage through the pantry, move the slow cooker to the front, use it till spring. we're doing the tacos tonight with tomato, avocado, romaine, cheese, a bit of hot sauce (for me); some refried beans, too; i need to stop writing about this. i'm hungry already.