My Single Mom Life

I've had a pot roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions, slow cooking in the crock pot since about 9am this morning, it will be ready to eat in about an hour.
The house smells sooo good!!
The pot roast looks sooo good too!

It's been cooking in a Rival stainless steel 5-Quart Countdown Slow Cooking Crock Pot, which I absolutely love!
This is the exact one that I have!

Crock pots are great because you just throw the food in, set it, turn it on and walk away.
Cooking is easy because it's all in one pot, and cleanup is easy for the same reason, it's just one pot to wash!

I love cooking with it for so many reasons, 1 of them being that it doesn't heat up the whole house like the oven would do if I was cooking this roast in it.
The whole house would be hot by now, and that would totally suck because I hate cooking in a really hot kitchen, it just makes you feel miserable.

I've cooked so many different and amazing tasting meals in my crock pot, and I just love making chicken dishes in it.
The chicken stays so juicy and tender, and because you just set it and walk away, the flavors stay in, and whatever meat you're cooking, it soaks up whatever spices and flavors you throw in.
For my roast, I have the potatoes, carrots, and onions, which have and add some great flavors to the meat themselves, but I also added in just a pinch of garlic, some celery, salt, pepper, a bay leaf, and a pinch of thyme too.
It really smells so amazing in my house.
I took the lid off to check the whole red baby potatoes, and waved some of smell out and into the house, and the teens opened up the door to the game room and were like "OMG, is it ready? Can we eat it now?"
Almost guys, almost.

I think that cooking with a crock pot is like the easiest way to cook, ever, it's really hard to screw up something cooked in a crock pot, so if you don't have one, get one.
I swear, they are a cooking appliance that should be in everyone's kitchen.
Buy.com has the exact same one that I have on sale for $44.95 with free shipping.
It's normally $60, so that's a savings of $15, and because the shipping is free, it's a really great bargain.
It can be used to cook so many different things, even deserts.
Yes, I've even made a cake in my crock pot, and it came out awesome.
My next cake in a crock pot adventure will be a cheesecake.
I love cheesecake but I have a really hard time making one in a traditional spring form pan, so I'm going to do one in the crock pot and see how it comes out.