homemaker

Moving from San Diego to Washington to Missouri has made it difficult to keep all of my stuff together. We had to leave quite a bit of my stuff in San Diego because we didn't really have space in Washington for it and it was just a little too much to handle trying to transport it on the airplane. Little by little, we have brought our stuff together and just a month ago when my parents came to visit, they brought a heaping load of my junk from home and some other wedding gifts that were too big and were left behind. One item that I was really looking forward to getting and having here in Missouri was the crockpot my mom has for us.

Sadly, it is sitting in a box in my family's garage so we still don't have it here yet. Pinterest was taunting me with delicious slow cooker recipes that I was dying to try out and so luckily our friends, the Shilligs, let us borrow one of their crockpots this past week!

I was super excited to try something out and that is what I want to share with you in this post! Today, I made barbecue chicken in the crockpot. Crockpots are so fun because you hardly have to do anything and it is wonderful. The barbecue chicken consisted of chopped red onion, 4 chicken breasts, sweet baby ray's barbecue sauce (yum), garlic, and pepper. Seriously, so easy. I turned it on mid-morning and let it slow cook while we were at church. The chicken got so nice after cooking for awhile and I was able to pull it apart so easily!

Another thing I made (last minute because I forgot that we needed to use up our potatoes), was parmesan roasted potatoes. I whipped out my laptop and looked up "roasted potatoes" on the ever-so handy dandy Pinterest. I immediately found a super easy recipe for Parmesan Roasted Potatoes from Chicho's Kitchen:

http://chichoskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/03/parmesan-roasted-potatoes.html

All it takes is:

1/3 cup parmesan

1 tsp paprika

salt & pepper

minced garlic

2 tbsp olive oil

4 potatoes

Here's how mine turned out:

They were super delicious too!

Our Sunday dinner consisted of pulled barbecue chicken, vegetables and parmesan roasted potatoes and it was delicious. Oh, and I love cooking in my cute apron that my mother in law made for me :)