In lieu of an actual useful post full of pictures and a recap of my vacation and insightful thoughts, I'll just keep the blog going with this fact about me today:
All I really want to do these days is cook. Then eat. It must be genetic. My sister is a professor at UBC and she
confesses to me (about teaching, being on the tenure track) "I just
want to make cookies!" My mom made "practice" loaves of both banana
bread and carrot cake last weekend (and she has totally made both
things tons of times before, so not sure what she needed to practice.)
My latest trend is slow cooker recipes. I'm trying to save a few bucks here and there by not buying so many lunches at work. At $7-$8-$9 a lunch it does add up. However, I always get tempted to buy hot food even when I bring my own, because hot food is just so much more tempting than cold. I've managed to go a whole work week with lunches catered by me tho, yippee!! I started putting things into the slow cooker the night before and packing up a fresh hot meal in the morning. Luckily this is the season for stews and soups, and lucky I love soups and stews.
I gotta try this one next week: Slow Roasted Chicken
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Secrets-of-Success-for-Slow-Cooker-Chicken-Video/Detail.aspx
