I love my crock pot. And I love finding new things to cook in it. I found this really easy recipe over on $5 dinners and adjusted it a tiny bit.

Easy Chicken & Dumplings

2 large chicken breasts, diced
1 onion, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
1/2 cup diced carrots
1 can cream of chicken soup or comparable substitute (normally [...]

Not a hit. We didn’t have lime juice so I improvised a marinade and it didn’t end up being flavorful. Plus the meat was kind of grisly and the veggies didn’t get cooked long enough. Oh well! Next time we’ll plan our time better and have the right ingredients!

Instead of having what was planned tonight (lentil soup) we headed to Mighty Fine for some burgers, fries, and a chocolate shake. It was really good, plus they use all-natural ingredients so I didn’t feel disgusting after eating like I would if I had scarfed the same food at some other restaurant which shall remain [...]

The dough this time was made with white flour, wheat flour, and rye “flour”. (I took rye flakes and tried to pulverize them in the processor, but when you have a child who cries at the sound of it, only about half gets pulverized.) We’ll use the rest of the onion for fajitas on Sunday [...]

Central Market makes this awesome frozen pumpkin tortellini. The problem is, I couldn’t figure out what kind of sauce to put them in. Last time we did olive oil and herbs, and that was OK, but something wasn’t right about it. Cream sauce makes sense, but there’s a problem with that as well: I suck [...]