A recipe I created yesterday on the spur of the moment upon discovering some chicken drumsticks on sale, and which I put in the slow cooker today. It's smelling pretty good so far ( Read more... )

Yesterday I received my first Yule gift of the year: a lovely slow cooker! I've wanted one all my life but just never gotten around to buying one, so now I have a whole new world of cooking ahead of me ( Read more... )

I'm just about to put some pork chops in the oven. I don't usually cook from frozen -- I'm much more of a bring-it-right-home-and-roast-it kind of person -- so I hope I've done things right. I took the pork chops out of the freezer into the fridge to thaw yesterday afternoon, hoping (unrealistically) that they'd be thawed tomorrow night. No dice. ( Read more... )

Tonight for supper we will try...

( Lemon Catfish Bake )

My blood sugars seem really out of whack today -- quite high, which might be a result of my fighting off an infection. I've had a sore throat since early this afternoon, and exercise only made it worse, adding a sense of pain and pressure in my ears that has not abated ( Read more... )

The beef stew hasn't killed us yet, and it tastes pretty good, so I'm pronouncing it a success.

( Laurie's Simple Beef Stew Recipe )