Crockpot love

I love my crockpot!! Most of all on the weekends, and especially when your not feeling great! Yes your probably wondering where is the breakfast recipes this weekend, since I usually do breakfast. Well Chris had to work Saturday so breakfast was just an english muffin, but Sunday morning were both home, and of course I made breakfast! I had again sooo many ideas! Well as I was making it I left out something I wanted to do. I wanted to make a breakfast sandwhich, and decided to make it on french toast! YUM! Okay so I did my egg sunny side up then made some crispy bacon. I added some smoked gouda cheese on top of the egg. I cooked my french toast then placed the egg, cheese and bacon. What I wanted to do was chop my bacon up, return it to the frying pan and add maple syrup. I forgot and this is definetly what was missing. So yeah I instead just had a french toast sandwhich with egg, cheese, bacon, and green onion. I also made a sauce from greek yogurt and sirracha sauce. It was good but would have been 100% better with the bacon in maple syrup! Ohhhh well, will do that next time! Here is the picture of it.

So the rest of the day was very lazy and chill. Chris and I watched a movie, The Prisoners... it was a good movie, but way tooooo long! It was over two hours!!! So during the movie I of course clipped my coupons out of the Sunday paper. There were four inserts this week too!! That's good for those of you who do not coupon, usually your lucky if you get two, but four AWESOME! I also realized I have sooooo many coupons. Every week I do clean out the expired ones, and even doing that have soo many. I had to organize my food coupons into sections hoping this will make it easy for me at the store. Lunch came and I made Chris a grilled cheese and roast beef sandwhich, and myself I heated up the Pow Pow pork and made it into a wrap with lettuce, cheese and ranch... very satisfying! Well then Chris took a nap and I attempted to get some work done... yeah right... didn't happen. I have to be in the mood to work from home and earlier I was not! I instead looked over my information about Substance Abuse Assessments since I have to lead a training with my supervisor tomorrow! AHHH, I hate conducting trainings, but I have done gosh who knows a ton of AOD (alcohol and drug) assessments over my three years at Mid-Ohio so you would think I would be relaxed, nope not at all!! I hate trainings! No matter how comfortable I feel I always get nervous and my face turns red... goshhh!! Okay I'm getting nervous talking about it so lets go to FOOD! I decided to watch my shows, Law and Order SVU (which I have watched since college) and American Horror Story, the Second Season. As Chris snored away on the couch I wanted to try these Apple Cresant things. I saw the recipe on Pinterest and had bought cresant rolls this week (.20cents each with coupon). All you do is unroll the triangles sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar (I also added some brown sugar) then place your sliced apple (yes I used it with the skin on) and roll it up. Analysis.... it was okay... nothing too special but a nice snack.

Of course with my snack I had to have some wine!! Chris bought me a bottle yesterday and I had bought myself a bottle Friday! Last night I had a glass of the wine Chris got me, a Barbara... welll.... I am a wine snob and my father's Barbara is sooooooooo much better. This one was just okay. Sooo today I decided to try my bottle. It was from Blackstone, a red blend. It was soooooooo goood I accidently drank the whole bottle! hahaha. Okay so for dinner I relied on my crock pot. I started this at 2pm so just had to relax the rest of the day. I made my chicken drumsticks, and they were very tasty.

Crockpot Drumsticks

2t salt
1T paprika
2t chili powder
1t onion powder (which I don't have so I used minced dry onion)
1t dried thyme (which I don't have so used 1t extra of garlic powder)
1/2 t garlic powder
1/2t black pepper
(I added some chicken rub seasoning my mom bought me from a amish place by her)
Chicken Drumsticks

*** Ive never made a non saucy chick recipe in the crockpot so this was a challenge to me***Okay so mix all the seasonings in a bowl . Bunch up some balls of aluminum foil to put in the bottom of your crockpot. I do this so it does not stick to the bottle of the crockpot and just rests on the foil. Rub the chicken with the seasoning mix and place in crockpot. From this morning I had some bacon grease left over that I heated up and poured over the chicken. I set the crockpot on low for 4 hours. After four hours I turned my broiler on and put the chicken on the pan and let it crisp up, turning a few times. This did not turn out as crispy as I wanted but it was full of flavor and very good! Even had a little spice to it! Chris and I have a weakness for Mac N Cheese so I decided since we have not had it forever I would make some. We literally would eat Mac N Cheese with everything before!! Had to chance that not soo good for ya to eat it as much as we were! And of course the Green Giant corn!! Very good!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend, and make sure you bundle up for this week Ohioans it's gonna be a cold one!! What better way to get out o the cold funch then to cook something Fabulous!!! Stay tune for this weeks recipes!!! Tomorrow I will need to cook up something good after doing this training!!

Buddy wanted to say take it easy and cuddle up in this cold weather!