There is a time in everyone's life when it is simply not convenient to make an entire meal for the whole family from scratch. For anyone strapped for time, a slow cooker is an indispensable appliance. Nothing is easier or more convenient than throwing a few ingredients into the crock pot and letting it do all the work over the course of the day.I used about 2 lbs of chicken (bone-in simply because that is all I had) with an onion and a bit of red pepper, plus some chicken broth and spices. Cooked perfectly in 15 minutes. I just had to remove it from the bone and shred it and it was set to be served. I adhered to a slow cooked moroccan lamb tagine slow cooker that stated to cook it on low for eight hours, but I utilized the pressure cooker function for 15 minutes and it was juicy and yummy. I can't recommend this item enough.I will admit that I do not go the whole hog when I prepare the vegetables, but I do like to cut a few of them in some fancy way, just to give the diners a surprise and bring an unexpected smile to their faces. So, here are six of my top tips for the preparation of your culinary delight.Meanwhile, as we plan for the Christmas-tide of entertaining, if we do any, there seem to be two different things to do: dinner or dessert. By that I mean that although you may not want to have another big dinner occasion following the effort you put out for Thanksgiving it is possible to invite friends to stop by for a coffee/dessert evening after your slow cooked moroccan lamb family has had a reasonable Christmas dinner why else would you bake all those cookies?).Take a Crockpot or any slow cooker moroccan lamb and place the well drained sausage into it. Get about four pounds or more of Velvetta cheese and cube it up into one inch cubes. Place the cheese into pot with the sausage.He rather arrogantly pressed Grinshpan into service as he prepared a perfectly revolting sweet-potato dish that would end up with raw apples in the middle of two layers of them. I mean, if you want to include apples in a sweet-potato casserole, you put the thing together and then bake it long enough to cook everything. But Garvin cooked the sweet potatoes separately, moroccan lamb kofta then sliced them into layers, sandwiching raw apples in the center. I don't know who he fooled into accepting this as a delicious Southern dish favored by his family, because I'd be willing to bet that his grandmother or whoever cooked those apples one way or another. It looked as awful as apple pie with dried or raw apples. I was so put off by this opening scenario that I changed the channel.Fill a bowl with cold water and add the spinach. Remove it and drain the bowl. Repeat once more, then dry the spinach leaves with a clean kitchen towel. Remove the stems from the spinach and chop the leaves. Add them to the crockpot. Cover and cook for two and a half hours on high or until all the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. Stir in the cheese and serve the risotto.