Overnight Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal

  When I first started this blog I would have never thought that I would be so into researching, testing and making my own recipes, photographing the end result, and then submitting my photos to several sites to get traffic and feedback. It can be hectic and tiring when juggling school, home life (owning of a lot of crazy animals), having lupus, and  all the while trying to figure out what I want to really do with my life.

Cinnamon Sticks

   When I first started this blog, I was posting about 4 times per week, but recently I have been posting only about twice each week. It can be somewhat frustrating when I have a good amount of recipes that I want to share all at once, but I also don't want to be that kind blogger who will post 5 times one week and then maybe will skip a week or two (without notice) and then will just post once a week after that. I want to be as  consistent with my posting as I possibly can so I think I will go back to posting 3 times a week; that may mean I might post all food posts one week and then the next I will show some of my recent photos or DIY projects.

  I had originally found a recipe for overnight oatmeal in a food magazine, but when I looked it up on the internet I found that it had really poor reviews. I ended up going with a recipe from Monica's blog The Yummy Life. I made a few changes to fit our tastes and it came out good. I've noticed that when steel cut oatmeal gets cooked, that it can become very thick, sometimes too thick. You can easily fix that by adding some more milk into your bowl and stir until you get the consistency you want. This oatmeal is very fragrant, but isn't too sweet which is good because even though I like sweets, I don't want to have a ton of sugar in my breakfast.

Creamy Crock Pot Chicken

   Meals made in a slow cooker or crock pot are good, especially around the holidays because they are easy, takes only minutes to prepare, and you only dirty a few dishes which is good since our kitchen is gonna be used non stop for the next few weeks. I mean you can come home to a home cooked, hot meal and all you have to do is make a side dish and serve and its much tastier and better for you than going through the drive thru.
   We actually have 3 crock pots (which comes in handy for church lunch ins), but usually only cook my mom's pot roast in them. And since we will be needing all of the freezer space we can find, to fit 3 turkeys (2 for church and 1 for us-well 2 are going into a ice chest) I decided that I will be making a few chicken recipes in the crock pot this week. I'm thinking that I'll make my dad and I chicken salsa tacos for Thanksgiving since we will be eating turkey on Saturday and will most likely be living off of turkey for a week after. I like turkey, but it seems like no matter how many people are over for Thanksgiving (16 this year), we always still have plently of turkey leftover,but one good result of that is turkey soup.
  This recipe was invented when I found some chicken recipes for the slow cooker online, but with each recipe I was missing a few ingredients so I made up my own recipe.

sorry. not the greastest photo