I have been trying to be better about cooking at home rather than eating out. Something I feel like a lot of us can relate to, it’s easier to sometimes make excuses and not cook. I am beyond guilty! I am not a bad cook, (I know that makes me sound great at the start of my rant LOL bear with me… ) but I feel like I lack originality when it comes to meal planning and meal making. That and I love a good cheeseburger any day and every day.

I am the same ol’ same ol’ type of person —  Honestly Ben is a really good cook, and very original, almost to the point I’m worried I may need to have a plan B simply because it looks like a science experiment because it just forms as it goes. I have yet to have had plan B put into action so that’s really good! Some of the dishes were VERY good but we never wrote down what was put in and don’t remember what was done. Lost in food heaven.

Anywhoo, (Every time I hear/say/type that word it makes me think of that lady cop from the movie/show Fargo… or basically anyone from Minnesota. Makes me smile and miss living there) –

Another thing, or two, eating out rather than cooking at home does for you is thin out your wallet and more often than not the food you’re making at home is healthier that what’s ‘out there’.  We all know this, BUT I still struggle with following thru with the knowledge. With all that being said, I obviously want to cook more at home and make it a regular practice again.

… I am going to digress for a moment … Something also I want to talk about. So I have this love/hate relationship with CHANGE. It is constant and we cannot avoid it. With moving around often change is constant, and I can feel uncomfortable and not really “at home” yet, and I forget my healthy routines and I tend to spend more, or be wasteful more, eat out more, not exercise etc. It’s happens like a rollercoaster / cycle and once I become more settled in the area and familiar with everything my energy settles down and I am able to re-center and remember my good routines.

So this is also something I saw coming, but living in a box (as I like to call it) throws a special wrench into the situation.

I am constantly saving recipes on Pinterest or Facebook on my phone and I do have a few cookbooks but I am rarely cooking them, so I want to be more conscious about that and try my hand at making them. BUT I am kind of limited to what I can do for my meals because I don’t have an oven. I do have a stove top burner, toaster/convection oven, griddle and my….  CROCK POT! Scowering thru Pinterest I realized I (of course) have a TON of crock pot recipes pinned and have yet to make one of them (typical).

Well not anymore! I am realizing my fortune in that thing and am about to start utilizing it a hell of a lot more, and see what else I can make in this small space with my limited resources, and see if it really makes much of a difference at all.  Stay tuned! I will be posting what I make and letting you know where I got the recipe from, how they turn out and flops that just don’t cut it.

SPEAKING of flop… I tried to make a “breakfast quesadilla” — It started out promising, but it. was. not. Ah well, it was a good effort on my part simply because I have a really bad habit of not eating breakfast. I did get half of it down tho 😉

**Oh I am also making a lot of updates to the site, tweaking and seeing what I like, so things may be changing a lot over the next few days. If you have an opinion and liked one layout and I changed it, feel free to drop a comment and let me know!