Big Cooking Day(s) #7

This weekend the cooking joy encompassed 2 days, and once again, I think we've gotten a week's worth of food!

We've (finally!) had a "cold" front, so I was wanting foods that would warm our bodies and our home.  My favorite winter meal is roast, for that reason, so that's what we cooked on Saturday.  My recipe is simple: buy a big honking chuck roast (that's a technical term), put Season Salt and Garlic Powder all over it, rub it in, etc.  Put it in a (floured) oven browning bag in a 9x13 pyrex.  Cut an onion into quarters and place one in each corner.  Divide a bag of baby carrots on all sides.  Stick a bay leaf on top.  Pour in water until you're almost to the top of the roast, however much it takes.  Close up the bag, cut a few slits in the top, and bake for 2-3 hours (for a 2-3 lb roast) at 325.  It makes the house smell amazing, it gives you a roast so moist and tender that it is falling apart, it gives you some super-yummy carrots, and it gives you gravy that makes mashed potatoes taste like heaven.  We ate some that night, and have at least another meal's worth.

Sunday I did the slow cooker Barbecue Chicken, and a Quiche.  We had the quiche for lunch and have another meal's worth left over, and the chicken for dinner and have a meal's worth left over, and that takes us through Wednesday!  Thursday we can have frozen pizza or eat sub sandwiches.

I was also pleased with the 2 day approach because I ate more healthily all weekend using this method - we only ate out on Friday evening (for Preston's dad's birthday), and we never felt the need to eat out the rest of the weekend because there was always something nommy (also a technical term) about to come out of the oven!

Also, Zoë really really likes quiche, yay!