Recipe round-up!

I tried a bunch of new things this week.  And another new thing is in the crockpot right now.

So here's the recap:

Monday:

I made this recipe from the crockpot blog that I really like.

And here's the verdict: it's decent.

And I hate beans.  Like, really really really hate beans.  There aren't many foods I hate as much as beans.

But I can't get over how cheap they are (even organic beans are cheap!) and how much fiber they have and how much nutrition they pack.  And Will needs a lot of food to feel full every day, and he's always bugging me to make stuff like this for him so he doesn't feel badly for eating so much expensive meat and fruits/veggies/etc. 

So I made it.  And I even willingly ate it.  (The baby also had about a dozen bites.  She doesn't appear to love beans, but she will eat them.)

It's best with some hot sauce, as the actual recipe isn't too spicy, but I think I shall make this again.  Will loved it.

I also made chicken legs with yogurt and vindaloo curry sauce that night, which was, of course, beyond delicious.  And another apple-sort-of-dessert-but-not-really (mostly just spiced apples).

And Tuesday (yesterday):

Chicken curry in the crockpot!  It's a Rachael Ray recipe that she gave to the crockpot Mom.  

This was DELICIOUS.  The baby even ate it - mostly the sweet potato, but also a decent amount of "organzo garbonic" (my exhausted, two glasses of wine-induced pronunciation of organic garbanzo beans that will never, ever be forgotten by my husband) and she even ate some green bell pepper! 

Tonight we're having company, and I made the Thai crockpot curry recipe that Rachael Ray gave to the crockpot Mom.  It smells delicious.  (And I've always been interested in learning how to make more Thai foods - I even bought the fish sauce so I'm prepared to try more now!)

And anyways, beyond that, we're just settling into a nice routine here.  I am making yogurt in my yogurt maker right now (actually, I dumped the ingredients in the yogurt maker.  The yogurt maker is now making yogurt, not me.) and the baby and I will probably play outside in the shade when she wakes up from her nap.

Will continues to work way too many hours (went to bed at midnight and got up at 4 AM - who DOES that, anyways?!?) but our daily  life is much less hectic, so it's allowing him the opportunity to really focus on work, which he needs to do right now.  I try to just pack his bag full of good food every morning, which is fairly easy because I keep cramming my crockpots full of yummy goodness.

.... dinner smells AMAZING.