Crock Pot Pork Loin

Teachers are back in session as of this week at school. 


The week is full of in-services, meetings and necessary instructions all crammed into five days.  Get a few teachers together and sometimes the crazies start coming out.  Some things are more enjoyable than others and lunch is always among the fun things to do. Eating healthy has been a challenge this week because teachers want chocolate and doughnuts and candies, cookies and breakfast tacos, not in that order but order is not the concern!  And of course, we need really strong coffee!  Since I have to weigh in tomorrow for our family's Biggest Losers I have been watching the unhealthy snacks and have done fairly well....so far...but the week is not over!

This week instead of rushing out to crowded restaurants and ordering food that is unhealthy for us my co-worker and I decided to plan ahead and start doing crock pot meals, cooking in our rooms while we were in meetings. 


We started with Rosemary Chicken yesterday and today we made Crock Pot Pork Loin.   So simple!  So good!  Lisa makes pork chops like this so I adapted her recipe.   Click on Read More to get the Crock Pot Pork Loin recipe.

Linda's Greek Rosemary Chicken

Today, we made Greek Rosemary Chicken.

This is Linda's recipe and Lisa and I made it one day in our huge crock pot but we were gone too long and let it dry out.  Today, I tried it in the oven and baked it on low all day.  We ate at 7:30 this evening and the aroma was wonderful.  Everyone who walked into the house commented on how good whatever we were cooking smelled.
When we gathered around our table for the evening meal.  I asked each person what was the best part of their day.  Everyone answered and then asked me.  I said it was when I tasted this chicken and it was delicious!  The family rejected that as the best part of my day because it was about food so the best part of my day was actually, when all the little ones woke up and came into the "leaving" room with their blankets, and stuffed animals, all happy to be up for a new day.

Crock Pot Taco Soup

Remember how everyone used to rush home after church on Sunday mornings and either you had a roast in the oven or Mama fried chicken while everyone read the funny papers?  I used to love to read Charlie Brown and Little Lulu and later when I got a little older I really liked the Family Circus and  I did not fully understand them at the time.  Now that I have lived through my own little Family Circus and I think I am not quite out of it yet. I could write the comic strip myself!

Times have changed!
Not only do you not take it for granted that everyone is attending church come Sunday morning but the church attenders rush to their restaurant of choice after the morning service in an attempt to beat out the neighboring congregation who lets out just minutes after your congregation lets out ...all in good spirit of course!
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