Cooking Day

I had another cooking week.

Yesterday I canned 10 quarts of pears and made some fig-lemon compote. I also tried to make tortillas but wasn't thrilled with the results- so I will be trying a different recipe.

I also read this great idea about using crock pot bags to freeze your meals and then just putting them in the bag in the crock pot- and then you throw the bag away! No cleaning of the crock pot! Freezer meals! I was sold.

I found the bags to not be quiet strong enough to freeze- so I put them in a gladlock container too.

Here are the recipes I used:

First I did two cranberry pork roasts I love- I got the recipe from my Cooking Light Slow Cooker book- so I don't have a picture. But it is pork loin with a can of cranberry sauce a littel brown sugar and some ground mustard. It is one of my favorite meals.

I also did this Brown Sugar Balsamic Glazed Pork Loin I found on Pinterest.

I also made this Roman Style Chicken from Hello Chicago. (also on Pinterist- and I think originally from Food Network in a non Crock Pot form.)

And from the same blog Moroccan Chicken.

And also from her- Bar-B-Que Pork Sandwiches.

This rib dish.

And this dish from 365crockpot- which I hope is good but not to sure. This is a trip-tip recipe with sun-dried tomatoes and feta cheese. I used some sirloin steaks that were cheap this morning at the grocery store- and I used sun-dried tomato pesto because it was on sale and half the price of sun-dried tomatoes. No pictures- because I always find the pictures on her blog off putting.

And from the same cooking light book I made a stuffed flank steak- again no picture.

All told I made 13 meals today. I made multiples of most of the above. I spent probably 3 or 4 hours total.

We have had a week-

Me to Beckett: Honey come here.

Beckett: You no call me that. I big boy.

Me: Call you what? Honey?

Beckett: I no Honey.

Me: I call Daddy Honey.

Beckett" Me no your husband. Me your big boy.

Coen: Jackson has never been kissed.

Me: You have?

Coen: Yes five times. By Alec's girlfriend.

Me: What is her name?

Coen: I don't know. She kissed me on the lips and the cheek.

Me: I think I will have to talk to your teacher.

Coen: Please don't Mom. I liked it and I don't want it to stop.

Beckett continues in his Star Wars obsession. Yesterday he sat on Alma's lap for an hour looking at Star Wars stuff on Ebay - and asked me to help him look again today (I didn't). And this morning he told me "Someday I will have all the ships!!!!!!!!!!" I put that many exclamation points because that is how happy this idea made him. His entire body was glowing.

Coen is loving Kindergarten and I am loving the time with Beckett. He is the easiest kid when he is alone. Happy to play all day by himself- and he finds me several times a morning just to give me a hug and tell me he loves me. He did say this morning - I tired of alone with me.

Beckett goes to Pre school two mornings a week so that he can play and I can help in Coen's class. I love being in his class. The first day he just kept coming up and hugging me super tight (actually he does this all the time) and I asked him after school what was wrong. His reply: I just miss my home and Mom so much when I am at school.

I know I am missing some cute things- They have been on a roll lately- but that is all I can think of this evening.