I have decided that I absolutely *love* oven and crock pot meals!!!! I can get the majority of a meal in the oven or crock pot in 15 minutes or less. It reminds me of something I read in a Living On A Dime newsletter one time. She said something like, our ancestors would have been frustrated with having to spend 30 minutes to make dinner. Here's an article she wrote about it, from her website.
I've been using some recipes from some wonderful e-books that I have gotten from Sheri Graham and Crystal Paine of biblicalwomanhood.com. I have one of Sheri's in the oven right now...smells so good...Beef and Rice Casserole, for which I used ground turkey instead of ground beef and a couple of chicken bouillon cubes and onion powder instead of onion soup mix, because of my husband's allergy to beef.
Another of Sheri's recipes that I adapted was "Baked Potato Bar". I love this idea. What I did was clean a bunch of potatoes and put them in the crock pot on low for about 4-5 hours. When we were ready to eat, I browned some ground turkey, heated some canned corn, sautéed onions and mushrooms, shredded some mozzarella cheese, and opened a jar of salsa. Set it all on the table and we had a yummy dinner. The leftover potatoes can either be used for hashbrowns the next morning or in another meal (Potato and Kielbasa Skillet, which I got from one of Marilyn Moll's ebooks but am having trouble with her site loading information, so I cannot put it here).
We also had this pasta dish this week and everyone loved it. I'll be on the lookout for more convenient oven and crock pot recipes. Please share your's with me, either recipes or favorite websites.
(Me and my dd, Tiffany on an easy to climb tree limb on vacation in VA in 2007.) These are my ramblings on homeschooling and whatever else comes to mind.
Counting Down
The Holidays are over and I'm not quite ready to start a new count down yet. Maybe I should start a counting up the number of days I've stayed on my "diet".
