At about age 70, my mother-in-law announced that she was through with cooking. I've decided that I don't want to follow in her footsteps. Yet I after 40 years of cooking, I am getting heartily tired, not of cooking, but of cleaning up. I am tired of grease and glop and dirty dishes.

So I've decided to spend the money on three things that make cooking nicer.

1. A box of disposible gloves for jobs such as cutting up chicken.

2. Parchment paper to line pans when I cook meat in the oven. It really helps.

3. Reynolds' slow-cooker liners and oven bags.

We have had a small dishwasher for many years, and it helps too.
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Spaw, if you take cranberries and stew them like prunes, you get cranberry sauce. Really tart cranberry sauce.
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Recipe

1 cut of untender beef, such as round roast*, arm roast+ or chuck
some cranberries
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp sweetener of your choice - sugar, syrup for pancakes, molasses, whatever

Put a liner in a slow cooker. Wash off the beef and put it in. Strew the cranberries on top. Slow-cook on low all day; refrigerate all night.

Next day, remove the fat. Stir the cinnamon and sweetener into the juices. Slice, warm up and serve with noodles.

I invented this. My husband loves it.

*You might want to slip up the round roast before booking. It is pretty dense and dry.

+Arm roast can be dense and dry too. Look for a marbled cut. It will taste better.