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.