Well today was 4/4 in regards to Pinterest recipes!!! For those of you who know me well I am not much of a cook or baker. I am also going to try and take pictures, but don't expect mine to look anything like those cook photos people take on other blogs!! I am not that fancy :) My sister gets the baking award in my family and well to be honest my mom never really cooked much when we were growing up (sorry Mom!!!). But I can tell you I am a great copier!! Give me an idea and I can copy it. Be it cooking, scrapbooking or girl scout crafts.
My New Year's resolution was to get back to meal planning like I did two years ago. A few things have changed since then. I now have two kids who are eating meals with us and my husband now follows both a gluten free and lactose free diet (most of the time, we aren't perfect)! So with that I have started trying to find new recipes that we will all enjoy.
I also intend to get back into doing all of the WW points for the meals, but that is another day!
I did one meal last week from Pinterest that I will just lump in here:
Crock Pot Coca-Cola Roast Now that it is winter the crock pot is going to be come my friend. Especially with busy lives like we have. (sorry no picture)
This was really good and easy. I too the juice out of the crock pot at the end and added a little corn starch to thicken it up a bit. Great gravy. Of course the kids wouldn't touch it (other than the carrots), but I will keep trying!
Today I made 4 new recipes and to my surprise all 4 of them turned out. I started off with:
Quinoa and Black Beans
This was really good. I ended up having to add some more vegetable broth to finish cooking. Also at the end when I added in the black beans I added in red peppers and a little lime juice. Since it is just me eating this will probably halve the recipe next time. Oh and also added a little more cumin than called for.
Copycat: Blueberry Muffin Larabar Recipe
Made these for Jim today. I am not sure what the original ones taste like, but they were yummy. I had never seen dates before. Those are some weird looking things! Anyway these were good. I did have to add in the 1T water as they weren't sticking together. Will try again and maybe change up the fruit and see how they taste.
Rolo Cookies
These were really good. One suggestion would be to put the mix in the fridge for a little bit to let it set up. Then make sure your hands are sprayed with Pam (or the like) as this is REALLY sticky!
And last but not least....Brown Sugar & Balsamic Glazed Crock Pot Pork Loin
Oh my gosh!!!! This was sooo yummy! It didn't quite look like the picture in the recipe, but that didn't matter. I followed the recipe as is except I ended up with a 1 1/2 lb pork tenderloin (which was plenty for our family of 4) and doubled the glaze. Usually in recipes I find there isn't enough of the "sauce" so I usually double. Didn't need to this time. There was plenty. Everyone really liked this (even the kids!). Savannah wouldn't try the glaze drizzled on hers, but everyone else loved it. Will be adding this to the rotation for sure!
Also here is a link to all of my weekly meals - Stobe Family Meals - you can download to excel with the button in the top right corner.
See you all next time.....
Quinoa and Black Beans
This was really good. I ended up having to add some more vegetable broth to finish cooking. Also at the end when I added in the black beans I added in red peppers and a little lime juice. Since it is just me eating this will probably halve the recipe next time. Oh and also added a little more cumin than called for.
Copycat: Blueberry Muffin Larabar Recipe
Made these for Jim today. I am not sure what the original ones taste like, but they were yummy. I had never seen dates before. Those are some weird looking things! Anyway these were good. I did have to add in the 1T water as they weren't sticking together. Will try again and maybe change up the fruit and see how they taste.
Rolo Cookies
These were really good. One suggestion would be to put the mix in the fridge for a little bit to let it set up. Then make sure your hands are sprayed with Pam (or the like) as this is REALLY sticky!
And last but not least....Brown Sugar & Balsamic Glazed Crock Pot Pork Loin
Oh my gosh!!!! This was sooo yummy! It didn't quite look like the picture in the recipe, but that didn't matter. I followed the recipe as is except I ended up with a 1 1/2 lb pork tenderloin (which was plenty for our family of 4) and doubled the glaze. Usually in recipes I find there isn't enough of the "sauce" so I usually double. Didn't need to this time. There was plenty. Everyone really liked this (even the kids!). Savannah wouldn't try the glaze drizzled on hers, but everyone else loved it. Will be adding this to the rotation for sure!
Also here is a link to all of my weekly meals - Stobe Family Meals - you can download to excel with the button in the top right corner.
See you all next time.....
1 comment:
Can't wait to try these! Thanks for sharing how they are turning out!
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