Sunday is a slower paced day for us. Between church and Sunday naps the last thing I want to do is spend a lot of time in the kitchen. For that reason, I love the slow cookers. I have 3 of them. I can throw stuff in, go to church, come home and my house smells amazing! Today, I looked in the freezer, found a deer roast and a small package of elk steaks to cook.
Here's what I did. I took a bunch of those cute, little red potatoes that we got in our Bountiful Basket, threw in some baby carrots, and cut up one of the onions that we also got in our basket.
The potatoes were already pretty small, so I didn't cut them or anything, just threw them in whole. Then I sprinkled some italian seasoning on all that. Next, I put the meat on top.
One of the great things about this, I didn't even need to defrost it, I put it in frozen. Sprinkled some seasoning salt and pepper on there, put the lid on and turned it on high for about 4 hours. When we got home from church I put it on low for about another hour while we got ready to eat and waited for my husband to get home.
Verdict: You can see from the first picture that I paired this with a green salad. I'm not a big meat eater and half of my kids aren't either, so we really enjoyed the carrots, potatoes, and salad. My husband and my other two kids really enjoyed the meat. Next time I need to cook more potatoes. Also, I love that I was able to use so many things from my basket. My goal is to use all of it before we get our next one.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
This Week's Bounty
There weren't many fruits this week, but my family is sure going to love the veggies!
Lettuce
Red Bell Peppers
Green Bell Peppers
Asparagus
Onions
Green beans
Tomatoes
Red potatoes
Oranges
Apples
Grapefruits
Blueberries
In addition, we got the Tropical Pack (not shown). It included kiwi, mango, pineapple, coconut, limes, plantain, mint, and vanilla beans. The kids can hardly wait to crack open the coconut and help me pry out the meat.
Monday, January 23, 2012
A New Year
Isn't it beautiful? |
My kids are still helping me plan out some of our meals. They get to pretty much pick about 4 out of 5 meals, and I make sure that if the meal doesn't contain enough variety (veggies) then I get to add the side dishes, and they have to at least taste them. Once in a while I will over ride an idea if there are time constraints or we are out of a main ingredient. Overall, though, the kids do a great job of looking at what we got in our basket and figuring out how we are going to use it. In fact this week we got both broccoli and cauliflower and my daughter was so excited because she wants macaroni and cheese with both of those in it.
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