Cooking

Something else I have been trying to work on throughout the last several months is learning to cook. Being single, I've mainly taken the easy way out and stuck with something from a frozen box and pop it into the oven or zoom through the drive through on the way home from work. Unfortunately that is where many of those unwanted pounds I mentioned a few posts ago came from!

I have been on the look out for some easy recipes that do not take long to prepare or are easy to throw into a crock pot. I've slowly mastered a few things over the past few months thanks to the advice of my Mom and my Sister (they got the cooking talent in the family), and a few other friends. One thing that I've mastered pretty well is barbecue. I put the pork roast into the crock pot and let it cook and then pull it apart and add bbq sauce and there we go...Barbecue! I've also mastered Tortilla Soup with a great, easy recipe I found online. I've tried my mom's meat loaf a couple of times, which is an easy recipe but am still working on making it not fall apart. I've also been working on chili which is coming along. Today I cooked a chicken in the crock pot overnight and just ate it and it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. I had some instant mashed potatoes and canned green beans and I really look like I cooked something!! Ha!

It does feel good when I try something new, that I always watch other people make, and it turns out somewhat edible for me! Please feel free to comment and share any easy recipes that a single girl like me could handle trying!

Have a wonderful day!

Susan