Cooking Again
Jan. 11th, 2011 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzFor a day when we had snow ALL DAY, I actually made it to work and stayed there all day. Amazing!
I thought the snow wouldn't have hit by the time I left, so I decided to prep dinner for today last night. On my way home from work, I got a hankerin' for a pot roast. So after battling the crowds at the grocery store who were cleaning the shelves of milk, bread, and toilet paper before the white death hit, I made it home and spent a bit of time slicing up onions, celery and carrots. This morning at 6 AM, the roads were clear, so I dumped the veggies, the roast, and the seasonings in my crock pot and left for work.
I've been told I'm a good cook and I do enjoy it. However, cooking for one is rough and most of the recipes I know will feed at least five (thanks to Mom). With the new diet/exercise program, I'm cooking dinner a lot more. Granted a crock pot dish isn't exactly complicated cooking, but I go by the Paula Poundstone definition where if it involves more than three steps, it's cooking.
Needless to say, even though I got home later than I had planned, the aroma as I walked in the garage door was welcoming. So after exercising (which wasn't easy with the smell of that roast in the air), I pigged out on meat and vegetables. SOOOO GOOOOD!
The only negative: I was so hungry I forgot to take a photo to accompany this entry before I dug in.
I thought the snow wouldn't have hit by the time I left, so I decided to prep dinner for today last night. On my way home from work, I got a hankerin' for a pot roast. So after battling the crowds at the grocery store who were cleaning the shelves of milk, bread, and toilet paper before the white death hit, I made it home and spent a bit of time slicing up onions, celery and carrots. This morning at 6 AM, the roads were clear, so I dumped the veggies, the roast, and the seasonings in my crock pot and left for work.
I've been told I'm a good cook and I do enjoy it. However, cooking for one is rough and most of the recipes I know will feed at least five (thanks to Mom). With the new diet/exercise program, I'm cooking dinner a lot more. Granted a crock pot dish isn't exactly complicated cooking, but I go by the Paula Poundstone definition where if it involves more than three steps, it's cooking.
Needless to say, even though I got home later than I had planned, the aroma as I walked in the garage door was welcoming. So after exercising (which wasn't easy with the smell of that roast in the air), I pigged out on meat and vegetables. SOOOO GOOOOD!
The only negative: I was so hungry I forgot to take a photo to accompany this entry before I dug in.
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Date: 2011-01-12 03:05 am (UTC)I'll check out the Eating Well recipes, sounds like they have some good stuff there :)
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Date: 2011-01-12 03:51 am (UTC)It's a disposable liner for a crockpot. You place it into the pot, cook in it, then toss it...you don't have to scrub baked-on goo.
A crock pot condom! ;-)
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Date: 2011-01-12 12:17 pm (UTC)