Honey Ghee and Me

A Week of Crock Potting… Done & Done!!

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Yay, Crock Pot Week is done and done!  Not yay for no more awesome meals to come home to ready to be eaten, but yay that I’ve finished doing all my recipes and can now post about it!!  Ahhh, the Crock Pot… if you don’t have one, you’re really missing out and need to get one now.  Any slow-cooker will do, but I call them all Crock Pots, falsely of course- kind of like how some people call all sodas Cokes… it’s just what we do I guess 🙂  Anyway, they are amazing.  (HERE’s one like the one I have- it’s nothing fancy… and is only thirty bucks, but it works like a charm!)

First off, if you’re busy during the day at work or doing whatever, you can throw stuff together in the morning and then have a wonderful meal waiting for you when you get home.  Killer bonus.  Second, they make everything, well, amazing really.  Any meat cooked in a slow cooker gets crazy tender and delicious- like fall off the bone perfection.  And you can make desserts, beverages… pretty much anything really!  Thirdly, super easy clean up.  So there, three great reasons to have one of these things in your home.  Oh wait, four- a bonus awesomeness… your house will smell amazeballs.  Wait wait wait, five- they’re the epitome of fall… warm, comforting foods to please your belly and warm up your body!!  Okay okay, I’ll stop there 🙂

So last week, I decided that I would do a week of Crock Potting (new verb?).  I’m kind of, correction: I’m really dorky and love giving myself little challenges to try.  Normally in my cooking, I don’t really plan ahead.  I cook what I want at the time, using what I have around or I just pop across the street to the store and get whatever I’m craving.  But with Crock Pot week, I really had to think ahead; I wanted to have all of my shopping done and ingredients ready so I could just wake up and throw things in there before work without any hassle.  So it meant I get up 5 or 10 minutes earlier, but what I came home to was well well worth it- smelled sooooo good in my house everyday when I walked in the door- I wanted to eat the air itself!

So what was on the menu you ask?  I tried to create a variety of dishes using  a variety of proteins and flavors.  Here’s what we had:

Day 1- Vegetarian Tomato Soup
Day 2- Quinoa Chicken Chili
Day 3- Asian-Style Beef Short ribs (this was the man’s fave of the week)
Day 4- Butternut Squash & Chicken Stew
Day 5- Turkey & Rice Stuffed Peppers
* I spontaneously whipped up a little Apple Cranberry Mulled Cider, too…you can’t go wrong with cider smelling up your house all day!

Quick note about the recipes: I try really hard when making recipes, especially ones for the blog, to be mindful with seasonings- particularly salt.  We all have different flavor preferences- with salt, you can always add it later, but you can’t take it out!  So I went on the lighter side with salt and pepper and such so that they’d be edible to just about all taste buds.  Crock Pots are awesome in a gazillion ways, but the one down side is that you can’t try your food while you cook it, which is a important part of cooking!  You have to just trust that what you put in will come out tasting great… so for that reason, I played it safe so that you’d be sure not to have a salt-fest happening when you came home to your meals.  Of course you can adjust as you want to suit your tastebud needs 🙂

And just for fun…
This last one isn’t from Crock Pot week, but it’s one of my favorite recipes ever: an-oldie-but-a-goodie, and it’s a Crock Pot meal, so I just must include…
Just a few recipes to get you going on your Crock Pot madness…. hope you enjoy!!  Happy Crock Potting!
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* I’ve decided to add on to this post since it seems so many people enjoy having Crock Pot ideas to browse!!  Here are a couple other Crock Pot meals I’ve made lately and enjoyed… nom nom, enjoy!
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