Ummmm....Yeah....

I know I haven't posted any recipes since I posted the rock candy recipe Sunday.  I cooked Monday night, but it was one of my misadventures.  I apparently need to remember what my second grade teacher, Mrs. Foshee, taught us.  Read the directions carefully before you start.  However, no one ever taught us to read directions while you have two screaming babies.  I missed one step in the recipe...reducing the sauce to a glaze before basting the pork loin.  It still tasted really good, but it could've been better.  I promise I will make it again soon and post the recipe along with pictures.

We've been eating a lot of leftovers this week so I won't be posting a lot of recipes this week.

I do want to share my one of my secrets to being able to get dinner on the table some nights.  That secret is my Crock Pot.  If you don't have a Crock Pot or slow cooker of any kind, I highly recommend getting one.  It is so nice to throw something in there that morning and not thinking about it the rest of the day.  Plus your house smells yummy all day because of what you're cooking.  Most of my slow cooker recipes I can literally throw together in the time it takes me to warm a bottle.  That's a good thing since some days that's the only time I get.

You maybe thinking, but April, I love my slow cooker, but it's a pain in the butt to clean.  I heard these same words from my husband a few weeks ago.  Reynold's makes these wonderful slow cooker bags.  They are just like their oven bags that I love to cook briskets in and other dishes in except they're made for your slow cooker.  There was literally no clean up Monday night after cooking my pork loin.  The bag was taken out and thrown away.  There was nothing left in the cooker.  The only thing that needed to be washed was the lid which we just stuck in the dishwasher.  Several weeks ago I made a taco soup in my Crock Pot with one of those bags and had excellent results with no clean up.  That was wonderful because when I've made it in the past the cheese always burned a little around the edges.  This way whatever burned around the edges was thrown away instead of being soaked overnight to get it off.

I hope these two little hints help out some of you busy moms out there.  Happy cooking!!