I'm not really into cooking. There are some things I like to cook once in awhile and sometimes I try a new recipe (like once or twice a year). But I really don't cook. I am not a cook nor do I have any ambitions to become one. But like I said before, sometimes I want to cook. Usually something very easy and good, like meatballs or pot roast in the crock pot.
A few days ago, I got the urge to make pot roast. So I bought the roast, carrots, potatoes, and celery. And this morning after Andrina ate her oatmeal (wait a second, I prepare her oatmeal every morning, and I make her scrambled eggs several times a week, does that count as cooking?), I turned on Sesame Street for her to watch while she played and I made the pot roast. It actually takes quite awhile to clean, peel, and cut up all of the veggies while constantly checking on a baby to make sure she's ok. But after an hour of cleaning, peeling, and chopping, and checking on Andrina about two dozen times, I finally had the veggies part of it done. The rest of it, seasoning the roast and adding water to the pot, is very fast and easy. So by 10:30 this morning, I had the pot roast simmering away in the crock pot for dinner tonight.
While I was preparing the veggies for the roast, I collected all the peelings and ends that I would normally just throw away. I'm going to try April's suggestion of using them to make vegetable broth. This also works because I have really been wanting soup lately. And Tom is a soup lover himself so that would be worth the try for our household. After I got all the vegetable trimmings into the freezer, I pulled out a box of recipes for soup, found about 6 recipes I would try, went through them and made sure I had all the ingredients. Ha ha ha, no I don't have all the ingredients, I really don't cook, so I made a shopping list for all the stuff I'd need. I figure that next week I'll make a pot roast again for dinner, and I'll have enough vegetable trimmings to make homemade broth for one of the soups. It's a vegetable, pasta, and bean soup, no meat in it at all, but it calls for 2 cups of chicken broth, which I'm going to substitute with my homemade veggie broth. I think that will work.
I enjoyed making the pot roast and searching recipes for future soups because that is something that I have been wanting to eat lately. But I did not like how much of my attention it demanded. I usually play with and read to Andrina after she has her breakfast but I couldn't do that this morning since I was so busy with food preparation. I actually feel sad that I missed my play and cuddle time while reading with her. So, she's down for her only nap of the day today (long story, that's another blog) and when she wakes up, I'm going to devote 100% of my attention to playing and reading to her.
Oh, I also did Andrina's laundry this morning. The other part of "homemaking".
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Haha! Sounds like you and I had identical mornings! While Anne was watching Clifford, I was chopping and peeling away to make chili in the crockpot! :) It took me about half an hour, but I think I probably had less chopping to do than you.
One tip, put your kid in sometihng that she can't get out of when she watches TV. This eliminates the need to check on her. However, this only works if she wants to actually watch TV. Pleanty of kids don't want to sit and watch at this age, but Anne did and does, so we just stuck her in a swing or the high chair (or you could do pack and play-that way she can move around and play with toys and watch TV) and turned it on and she was happy as a clam for half an hour to an hour while she watched. That way I can get done what I need to get done and not really check on her because she's probably safe in her confinment.
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