Cooking with my crock pot

Since we've been spending most of our days at our office, I've been looking for creative ways to cook our meals without resorting to eating out or buying frozen dinners. My salvation for this dilemma came in the form of the crock pot that we received as a wedding present.

I'm not entirely new to the concept of using a crock pot. My mom would use one to make pot roast while I was growing up and I've seen my grandmother do the same. However, I never really thought of using it for much else until we ended up running this office, which has a kitchen but no stove. That's when I started doing some research and learned that there's literally a ton of recipes out there that you can make in your crock pot. As a matter of fact I'm currently trying to cook some rice in mine as I type this. I'll let you know how it comes out and maybe one day I'll actually get my things together to post pictures and maybe even a video.

Anyway, I mostly wanted to give anyone who is interested the links to these two recipes that I've recently cooked.

This first one is for a baked potato soup and it's incredibly easy and delicious! The only thing I would suggest is if you like your soup to have some chunks of potatoes, remove some of them and set them aside before you use your blender or immersion blender. I forgot to do that but the soup was still really tasty.

 Baked Potato Soup

This next recipe is also very, very good. I only wish I had doubled the recipe because it did not last long at all after I made it.

Slow Cooker Cream Cheese Chicken Chili

You can also follow me on Pinterest and check out my boards. I've got one specifically for crock pot recipes and I've also got a board that I try to keep updated with pins that I've actually done. My new goal is to try these different things out and share my experiences with you on this blog. So, hopefully the next time I post I'll have a little more detailed post about the next thing that I try to make. Oh, and the directions that I got for cooking rice in my slow cooker can be found here:

Crock Pot Rice

We've Moved

Yes, as the title says, we've moved. If you have been reading my posts then you'll know that in the last one I spoke of how we were considering the opportunity to run a branch of my grandparent's tax business. Obviously, we decided to do that and after several weeks of packing over the Christmas holidays we finally made the move. Mostly. We still have about half of our trailer to pack but it's all my home decor and whatnot. So not a very big deal. The biggest thing going on in our lives right now is finding a place to live. We've stayed at my parent's, we've stayed at his grandmother's, and we've stayed at the office. The last, I should mention, is an old house that was converted into an office. So we haven't been sleeping under a desk or anything, there's actually a room that wasn't being used in the back that we converted into our living area and it would be perfect except for the fact that living where you work doesn't appeal to either of us. So we've mainly been staying at either my parent's home or at his grandmother's where our RV is parked.

As for the business, it's going well. Things have slowed down a little bit and I know we'll have to get jobs after the end of tax season as the revenues from here will help us a little but we will need more as my student loans will be coming due soon. I'll have one or two classes left after this semester and I'm hoping to finish those in the summer and graduate in the fall.

I'm sure that I've missed something important that I was going to write about, but at the moment my mind is drawing a blank, which isn't surprising as I have a head cold and that makes my mind move slower than it normally does. So, if you have a question about me that I didn't answer in this post then ask it. Or e-mail it to me or message it. Or don't ask at all. I seriously doubt anyone will, I'm not that interesting.

Wow, this post took a depressing turn. I think it's probably because I'm tired and not feeling so well. You know what, just ignore these last two paragraphs. I feel like I'm rambling more than usual at this point than I usually do and it's starting to irritate me. So I'm finishing this post. Now. Seriously, right. Now.