A girl friend who had invited us over for dinner last week said" how come when we come to your house for dinner you already have it ready, but when your family comes here I am scrambling to get things done"
I was happy to share my secret.
I make dinner almost every day at 10:00 am.
Reason 1: I don't like cooking
Reason 2: I really don't like cooking on a stove
Reason 3: Half my kids are napping at 10:00 am- if I get anything done during the day, this is when that happens.
Reason 4: By 5:00 pm I am worn out and sometimes grumpy from what has usually been 12 hours of caring for toddlers without a break. At five all I want to do is lay down, not something I don't like doing- cooking on a stove.
Reason 5: My best meals are created in a crock pot, I cook 3 or more meals a week in a crock pot, because it allows me to make dinner at 10:00 am. And no we don't just eat soups, though that is what I am posting today. We make everything- including Chinese and Thai food and dessert in the crock pot.
It is these above reasons that have taught me my next secret.
6 cans of almost any variety in a crock pot turn out delicious.
Today's mixture included
1. stewed tomatoes
2. chicken broth
3. black beans
4. white beans
5. kidney beans
6. corn
- and some left over breakfast sausage
served with corn bread.
This is a go to meal of mine whenever I have nothing planned and especially if I have a very small amount of leftover meat from a previous meal.
Go searching your pantry of canned goods. See if you can come up with 6 different cans.
I would recommend one of them being some kind of canned tomatoes.
Throw them in a crock pot.
You don't need a recipe.
Just a pantry stocked with canned goods and some common sense.
I frequently use my crockpot for much the same reasons, I'm a morning person, and I can get the meal made and the kitchen clean in the morning and then we have a nice meal when I am tired. Thanks for your great site.
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