Here are a couple of confessions for ya.
Go ahead. Get your cup o’ coffee and stay for a while. Ok. Maybe it’s not that interesting. But here it goes.
I’m not a very good cook. And I am terrible at baking.
As in, I can’t even make chocolate chip cookies. I always buy the premade dough that you just slap on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes. THAT, I can do.
And sure I can follow a recipe. But it never tastes as good as I think it will.
Unless it’s in a crockpot. Crockpots. That girl and I are pretty good friends. She makes me look good. Makes it look like I can cook.
But I have found something that helps.
Sometimes most of the time I pretend I have my own cooking show when I am preparing a meal or baking.
I love the Pioneer Woman and I love her cooking show. I sometimes pretend I have a cooking show just like her and that makes cooking really fun. You know, talking to the people at home about how to make a delicious dish. Letting them know the step-by-step. Adding a dash of this (salt) and a dash of that (pepper, I don’t go outside of that). And if I have my own show, I must be pretty good at cooking, so I think it always helps make the meal tastier.
Of course I just talk to myself in front of my kids and not in front of company. That would be weird.
Really hopin’ some of you confess about your imaginary friends, (which I may or may not have had when I was little) talking to yourself, or your own imaginary cooking show that you’re the star of.
Otherwise, this could get awkward.
Oh, well. I figure by now you know I’m a little weird.
Here’s some more proof.
What kinds of weird things will you ‘fess up to?
C’mon. Make a girl feel normal would ya?
Happy Day guys!
Aww.. I love you old friend
My confession…. Also a self talker, but I catch myself giving speeches in the mirror. Sometimes to my kids, mother-in-law, some teenager at WalMart… Anyone I think needs a good talking to. I don’t even realized I’ve started until I’m half way through. Then, I’m like… I’m on a roll!! Might as well finish!! WOW! I should take up the cook talking. It seems more… sane. 
Love the chalkboard idea. I’m searching for a spot!
Ok that made me laugh OUT loud, Amber. That is hilarious. I LOVE it and feel a newfound connection to you, fellow self talker:) That cracks me up! And I may have to try it. I have a lot of good advice for wayward teens. Or wayward ORU soccer players because you know I’ve been there, done it:) And so glad you’re doing the chalkboard thing too! Yay for memorizing scriptures!
Girl i talk to myself all the time! and my favorite cooking tool; my fry daddy! Yup i’ll admit it, we fry everything in this house! may not be so very good for you but hey i’m southern if we cant get away with it, no one can! ; D
Haha! SO glad I’m not the only self talker! And I love that you fry everything up! There is such a thing called a Fry Daddy? I may need to get one of those since the only meat JimJim eats is chicken nuggets…thanks for the tip southern girl!
You should get one! you can pick them up at walmart for less than $30! i have a recipe for chicken nuggets that tastes just like Chick-fil-A! now if i could only get the honey mustard down right! oh! and sweet potatoe tater-tots! yum!!!
That is so cheap! I am gonna get one…well maybe. Im a little scared because I think all we would eat would be fried everything! If I get one I need that recipe from you!
hey… give us a couple of your favorite crockpot recipes sometime, would ya?
Yes! I will I only have a few. What are your faves? I’m always looking for new good ones. Chicken enchilada soup is our favorite. Do you have that one?
laughing out loud at the post and especially the pictures… i am loving my crockpot lately too. and every time i use it i think of our favorite -debbie the helpmeet lady.
didn’t she have a whole chapter JUST on using the crockpot? she’d be so proud of us.
Haha! I forgot about good ol’ Deb. She WOULD be proud. Thanks sis. Love you!
Love you. Seriously.
In the cooking department, by unsolicited advice would be that you need one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Color-Dutch-Island-6-Quart/dp/B000N501BK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357671748&sr=8-1&keywords=enamel+dutch+oven
I have several now, but after I got my first one and started cooking in it, my family started calling it the “magic pot” (insert cannabis joke and chuckle here.)
Seriously, get it nice and hot, put a whole chicken in it, some salt, pepper, bay leaf, rosemary, garlic powder, chop an onion and pour in a bag of baby carrots. Add maybe 1/3 cup of water, put the lid on, turn the heat down to low and 45 minutes later, you have the most wonderful roasted chicken and veggies ever. Can you microwave minute rice? You have yourself a meal?
Pretend there is a period at the end of that last sentence and not a question mark… Confession: I am supposed to be a writer and all, but I rely heavily on an editor.
Done. I didn’t even notice. And love that confession. Once time on this blog I said, “Bear with me” instead of “bare with me” still not really sure which one is right, I just know I was wrong. #spellcheckdoesntcatcheverythingandmakesmelookalittledumb. I know you aren’t a Twitter fan but you should start hashtaggin’. It’s addicting and a little fun.
Haha! I CAN use the microwave so I am definitely going to look into getting one of these magical pots. SO excited about this. It might even trump the crockpot if it can truly get the job done in 45 minutes. I’ll have to see this to believe it. Thank you so much for the advice. I can see it now. “Learn To Sort Of Cook With Karis and Lindsay.” Are you in?
I would love to co-host the Sort of Cooking with Lindsay and Karis show…If it gives me a chance to achieve my lifelong dream of using a blowtorch, then it will be worth all the hate mail we will get.
And yes, you can cook a chicken in 45 minutes…a 4 1/2 pounder or so…not a mutant 8 lb chicken. The pots get nice and hot and when you resist the urge to take the lid off and check on it every 5 minutes, it kind of works like a pressure cooker and all that steam cooks things fast. It’s awesome. Ask for it for your birthday, or anniversary or just go buy it for yourself because you are awesome…they come in lots of pretty colors. No need to spend $300 on a Le Cruset by the way. The ones from Walmart work just as well.
Oh good! I will be getting one asap. This just seems amazing. So glad you’re in on the cooking show and that’s hilarious. Blowtorch dreams. My dream is to have sharp knives that actually cut things so I don’t have to saw with the dull ones I currently own. Ahhh….big dreamin’ here. Sounds pretty dangerous and awesome. Make it happen. You know people.
Sharp knives and blowtorches. That’s how we ROLL!
Haha! Don’t I know it!