I love my slow cooker.

So, today I stayed home from work with my fevering 1-year-old.  After all day of her crying and getting medicated and watching her every move...my guess at what's wrong?  Poor thing is doing some massive teething.  It's kickin' her butt.  Talk about stressful, and I'm totally exhausted.  So did I feel like making an elaborate, time-consuming dinner?  H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks No!
  
But I'm not one to pull a box out of the freezer and throw in the oven and wa-la! Dinner!  Nope.  Nor am I one to pick up the phone and .... knock-knock-knock Jimmy Johns!  Okay, SOMETIMES I am.
Anyhoo, I knew tonight was going to be a lazy kind of night.  So that means....Crock Pot!
About 7:30 this morning I threw a frozen pork loin roast in the slow cooker, poured some chicken broth and some seasoning in with it, turned it on low and forgot about it.

Later, about 5:30, I boiled a couple cups of water (threw in some seasonings) and added some white rice and let that simmer for 20 minutes.  While the rice was cookin', I chopped up some lettuce, cucumbers, green onion and turkey pepperoni and tossed it all together for a side salad. 

Slow Cooked pork loin, garlic butter rice and salad (lettuce, cucumber, green onion, strawberries, blue cheese and sunflower seeds with Ken's Lite Pomegranate Vinaigrette)

Super easy, super quick, super yummy!

Have eaten pork this way since I was little...with applesauce!  YUM!

Tip Today: Homemade Body Wash!!

So I've been actively trying to fit some different things into my schedule...more than laundry, kid and work.  :)  I recently jumped on the Pinterest wagon, and I. Love. It.  I am not creative enough to come up with much on my own, so what a great place to find ideas!


Here's something I did yesterday that I found on Pinterest.  We use body wash in this house; lots of it.  At nearly 7 bucks a pop, it can get expensive!  So when I came across the pin on how to make your own body wash - and saw how easy it was - I said "Whaaaaaat? I MUST try!"


All you need is 3 Dove bath bars, 6 cups of water, a grater or food processor, a stock pot and a little time.


Grate the bars of soap.  I started to use my grater...said to myself "oh my GAWD, forget this.  This will take WAY too long!"  (Have I mentioned that I am EXTREMELY impatient?)  So out of the cupboard came my food processor and I had 3 bars of grated Dove soap in a matter of a minute or two.

What the girl was doing during the body-wash makin'.

Place the soap and 6 cups of water into the stock pot and turn to medium heat.  Allow to heat until all of the soap is dissolved.  Once it is dissolved, allow to cool for several hours.  It will thicken as it cools.  By the following morning, the soap/water mixture was perfect consistency!

My kitchen smelled awesome!

I put mine in a conditioner bottle with a pump top and the rest in a jar to be used later.  I got about 3 times the body wash I normally get for the same price.  Score!

An old conditioner bottle and an old pickle jar.  I can improvise.  :)

**It doesn't get as lathering bubbly as most washes, so that is something to get used to.  But it DOES make you feel clean and fresh as a body wash should.


 One Good Thing by Jillee from Pinterest

Well, Hi There.

Hi!  First blog post here.  I've started blogs before only to stop writing in them almost immediately.  But the problem was, they were always themed.  Cooking Healthy, Cooking Quick, Living Frugally, etc etc...Sometimes I just don't stick to things, you know?  I'm an Aries, I like to start things.  Just not finish them.  :)


So, why am I starting another one, you may ask?  This one will have no theme.  No rhyme or reason.  I'm gonna post whatever I feel like posting, whenever I feel like posting.  Sound good?  Does to me.  :)


Well, the child is screaming in her crib.  So it looks like I'm not finishing this post.  Ha!  See what I mean?


To be continued...as always...  ;)