Downy Unstopables in the wax warmer

so back up life to say a month or so ago? i was out shopping and i was feeling like just wasting money on a  bunch of crap i don't need (hey i just started working for the first time in over a year, I'm allowed to go a little crazy with a few pay checks)- when out of the depths of some nasty isle filled with crap i saw it… a wax warmer… and i was like I NEED THAT (i didn't even know what it was at this point but i knew, i NEEDED it) so i got it, and i bought a bunch of weird smells to go with it, like ocean breeze (oh please, the ocean smells like dead fish and homeless men) and apple pie (i don't like apple pie, why would i like the smell).

Anyways i got home, and i never ever for a second regretted my decision, but i always felt like something was missing in our relationship.  see call me crazy, but i don't want my house to smell like baked goods, I've put on enough weight, we don't need the neighbors thinking I'm baking pie every day on top of that! i want my house to smell FRESH, like i don't have a dog that shits in the house. so here i am on pinterest (i have a lot of free time) and i see that you can put downy unstoppable in your wax warmer, so i was like YES!! but then i thought, "Oh boy this sorta sounds like it could be a pin-tastrophe ."

either way i was super super pumped when it WORKED, and its way less messy that all that wax every where.  the little beads melt but they aren't wax and they just seem easier to deal with. boom I'm one happy girl! 

BBQ chicken sandwiches in the slow cooker

 To die for Pulled BBQ chicken sandwiches- so I made this as a "freezer to crock pot cooking" meal on Sunday . Yesterday I made them for dinner and we liked them so much i made them for lunch again today! and so super easy. 

I actually lied on Sunday- when i gave you the recipe, that was the recipe i found on some random site online, however when i went to cook it, i realized i didn't have some of the ingredients. so i just made it up! and while i can't say the real recipe isn't good. id give this new (sorta new, sorta just i have the attention span of a 6 month old baby, and forgot some things in the store) recipe a 9.9/10

so here you all go… ENJOY

BBQ chicken 

3 chicken breasts 

1/2 onion (chopped)

1/2 bottle of BBQ sauce 

1/2 cup of Italian salad dressing

2 Table spoon worcestershire sauce (can you believe i actually had it on hand?) 

P.S i don't actually believe in measuring my food out. i just guess, so those 2 table spoons were just eyeballing it. like i said, I'm a lazy cook!

toss it in the crock pot for a couple hours and wallah best meal ever

I topped my sammy off with some cheese and mayo, but that was only because i was scared to eat BBQ sauce, didn't know if id like it- but i didn't like it, i LOVED IT. 

the only thing id change about this recipe this time is to double it, or triple it- hey I'd be just fine if we had this every day for the rest of my life! 

Im just still trying to figure out all the ins and outs of this blogging stuff. so this is just a fake post so i can mess with the HTML stuff and what not so i thought hey. ill add pictures of the love of my life (and no that would not be my husband) my PUPPY!!!!!! back when she was actually a puppy. ENJOY!

Veggie mac and cheese!

Like i have said before- i live in the middle of no where, I'm home sick and lonely 99.9% of my life- so some good old comfort food like Mac and Cheese can turn a day around in a minute! however I also am not trying to die by the age of 30 from obesity. So when i saw on pintrest this awesome recipe of mac and cheese with VEGETABLES i almost pooped my pants- How perfect!

I had to change up the recipe because, I'm not even sure what evaporated milk is, but it doesn't sound good! also this lady who posted the recipe wanted you to stir the mac and cheese non stop for 10 minutes or something- stop right there lady, i have a life, kinda, i don't have time for such shenanigans!!

Eric gave this meal a 9.2, "because its real real good" also "because its like macaroni only better"…i married a genius i tell you what. 

Veggie Mac and Cheese:

shell noodles 

elbow noodles would probably be ok too

1 lb of cheese 

(i didn't use that much, i don't like it too cheesy) - and don't have a heart attack, it makes a TON of food, and cheese has lots of protein and calcium! use what ever you have on hand, i used Monterey, cheddar and Colby Jack all mixed together

1/2 a cup of milk

1 Tbs butter

2 cups of peas

1 cup corn

1/2 onion

                                                                                      1 cup Kale

                                                                                        1 cup spinach

                                                                                        1 cup broccoli 

or use what ever veggies you like/have laying around!

then you cook your noodles (i left them a little undone because you gotta cook them with everything else, but i mean just a LITTLE undone) add the veggies, milk, cheese, butter  and stir until its real yummy. add salt and pepper to taste, and then i added paprika and crushed red peppers because everything needs to be overly flavorful to me! and ENJOY- and enjoy it for like a week because it makes a lot, i even had to change pans half way through

Freezer to crock pot!

ok so i started this- and then realized i live in the most boring place in the world, and i have no friends, sooooo i don't live all that interesting of a life any more- so no more posts about my inner most thoughts, those are stupid.
       and since i live in the middle of no where, with no one to hang out with, my kitchen and i have started to have a little fling! (however my waist line is not happy about this new affair) so now you can get food posts!

Today i did one of those crazy freezer to crockpot meal things- this is my 2nd attempt- so i learned a few things from the first try at it. basically it took me about an hour (maybe a little longer) and about $35 to make 11 count them ELEVEN dinners.

I wouldn't call myself lazy, but i am very….uh..energy efficient? so i was able to make these ELEVEN dinners using 1 mixing bowl (i just rinsed it out and used it again on the next recipe, that might be gross now that i think about it. oh well)  and 1 pan (this was an unnecessary step, other than raw chicken grosses me out, so i had to cook it before i was able to touch or cut it).
 
 on top of that I'm obsessed with my crock pot, not only does it make my house smell like I've been slaving away all day in the kitchen, i also use slow cooker liners, so i have no dishes to use (although i do run a soapy wash cloth in there and rinse after I'm done cooking in it) oh I also love it because i work til the wee hours of 6pm every day, and by then all i want to do is sit down with a glass of wine, so this makes meals so so super easy (with out going out to eat every night)







so today i made 4 different recipes, i stole them off of pintrest- but then i changed them depending on my own tastes/ i can never find things at the store so i just skip stuff a lot of times/using up what i have at home already




















- don't mind my diet coke in the picture, you don't need that! haha

Black Bean Taco soup

(which called for beef, but i don't eat beef so i made half vegetarian half chicken) 

1 lbs of chicken

1 medium onion

1 package of taco seasoning

1 bag frozen corn

2 cans of black beans

1 can of stewed tomatoes

1 can chopped tomatoes

1 can tomato sauce (NOT the big can like i bought, just the little can i guess lol)

1 can diced green chilis (whoops just remembered      i forgot to put those in!)

mix all the ingredients- separate servings into zip lock bags- cook on low for 2-3 hours in the slow cooker

Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

6 chicken breasts (i do 2 breasts per ziplock bag)

1 bag of frozen broccoli

(i also had a head of broccoli that was going bad so i tossed that in there too)

2 jars of alfredo sauce 

1 large green pepper (chopped)

1 can sliced mushrooms (I'm not sure this is necessary)

Mix all the ingredients and separate into zip lock bags- cook on low for 4-6 hours- it says to 

serve over noodles, but it looks super good on its own to me!

Chicken Caccuatore

1 lb chicken breasts

1 jar of chunky spaghetti sauce

1 zucchini (chopped)

1 yellow squash (chopped)

1 green pepper (chopped)

1 onion (chopped)

handfull (or a pinch) of crushed red pepper

oregano

mix all the ingredients- separate into zip lock- cook on low for 6-8 - serve over noodles (hmmm    that sounds like more work than i care to do) 

BBQ chicken sandwiches

i halfed this recipe because I'm not sure if i like BBQ sauce or not yet!

6 chicken breasts 

1/2 onion (chopped)

1 bottle of BBQ sauce 

3 cloves of
garlic

1/2 cup of italian salad dressing

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 Table spoon worchestrshire sauce

i thought bbq sauce and italian dressing sounded weird too- but it has EXCELLENT reviews so hey, sometimes strange things work together

mix all the ingredients- separate into zip locks- cook on low 2-3 hours, if the chickens was precooked, 6-8 if they weren't) and serve on buns!

alright now GO COOK. and enjoy all the free time you will have when you don't have to make dinner any more!