Have you noticed I'm only posting to the crock pot feature lately? I guess I was right about one thing-- it keeps me coming back once a week. I'm sure I'll have more brilliant blogging ideas at some point...
This week is fall break. That means no school and no real need for the slow-cooker-- I can "regular" cook every night. In fact, yesterday was the first time in quite awhile that I made a real hands-on meal rather than dumping raw ingredients in the crock pot and walking away, or throwing a frozen meal in the microwave. It felt great! I absolutely love the feeling of chopping and stirring and taste-testing as I go along. It's a cathartic thing for me. Some people are overwhelmed by the idea of preparing a meal at the end of a long day, approaching it thinking, "After all that, I still have to cook..." But me? Not at all. It's a quiet time for me-- no matter how crazy my kids might be in the background. After making supper last night, I was happy as a clam! (Side note: Just how happy are clams? Whose job was it to determine that clams were so happy we should measure our own happiness next to theirs? These are the random thoughts I have...)
However, I can't imagine that I'll be letting my crock pot totally off the hook this week-- it's suddenly feeling very fall-like around here, with temperatures in the 40s in the morning and nothing more than the mid-70s by the afternoon. I think tomorrow will be the perfect day to try out that Tortilla Soup I was talking about last week!
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