Kitchen Hack

Well today started off as a lovely day...at 5am Sammy was barking to go outside. So I drag myself out of bed and half awake take him out. And then I hear talking? This freaks Sammy out (as do most things) and I realize there are 3 women walking down the street. At 5am. In February. We have officially moved to the most active neighborhood I have ever seen! People are constantly walking (with and without dogs, which adds an added level of stress to Sammy) down the street. All. Day. Long. Which makes for a long day of Sammy barking at ever person that passes. We're trying to figure out a way to make this better...

After TRYING to get back to sleep and failing I get up at 6:30. Nate woke up shortly after that anyway....I was hoping today was going to be a sleep in day :-(

I was ready to go ahead and put my dinner in the crock pot. Joel mentioned the other day that he wanted to have a mini-Thanksgiving type dinner- turkey breast, sweet potatoes, etc. I found a turkey breast crock pot recipe that looked really easy- you just throw the turkey breast in a frozen crock pot add a lil garlic & onion and let it go!

Well, I knew my crock pot was on the smaller side (not the oval or roaster kind), so I got the smallest turkey breast they had. And here's how it fit:




Or rather, didn't fit! Great! I quickly google "cook in crock pot without lid" and found most people just saying to use a different lid or a Corningware lid. Ah ha! If there's something I have plenty of it's Corningware! So I fashioned this little extension for my crock pot. Now let's just hope it actually works!If this recipe turns out well I'll pass it along. Haven't been the best cook this week...only made a standard lasagna and bought an apple pie from Publix rather than making my own dessert this week. Nate has been teething again and my free time to cook has been quite limited.