What I'm eating Wednesday...

I am reading, but not making a lot of headway.  

I have been cooking quite a bit though.  Yesterday I did a test run of "baking" white and sweet potatoes in the slow cooker.  I wasn't crazy about the results, but they were okay.  The skins were a bit too fragile for my intended purpose (twice baked potatoes), but would work great for "baking" them in the summer without heating up the kitchen.

I made about seven of the regular bakers into twice-baked potatoes, and after freezing on a baking sheet overnight, I moved them into individual vacuum-sealed bags this morning.  Now they are in the chest freezer for future meals.

I did a large dice of the two sweet potatoes and one of the white potatoes, and refrigerated them overnight.  Tonight for supper I used them (along with some sausage) for breakfast hash topped with fried eggs.  Leftovers remain, yay!

Since I picked up my grocery order last week, I've also made Sausage, Rice, and Green Beans Skillet, next night I roasted a spaghetti squash and topped it with shrimp alfredo sauce.  Another night I made Italian Baked chicken with rice as a side and broccoli.  The leftover chicken breasts will be diced for a casserole or something another night.  Tomorrow the plan is for meatloaf.

I do so much better when I plan a menu and have the groceries in the house.  

Speaking of groceries, I thought I'd show you these photos I took when I unloaded the grocery order last week.  

I have stacking egg trays for the fridge.  They nest together when they aren't both full.  When I buy more eggs, I buy a different color from what I still have to use at home.  

I move the older eggs to the front of the top tray so they get used first.  Then I'll start on the brown eggs when the white ones are used up.  Sometimes we go through eggs faster than others.

When I'm not in the kitchen, I am in the process of moving my card making desk/shelves/supplies to the guest room.  The quilting supplies will stay put and be able to spread out a bit once the desk etc is moved out.  I'm trying not to rush.  Don't want to risk messing my knee up again.  But not rushing means a longer process.  And I have book club at our house in two weeks.  Yikes.  I hope it's done by then, but I'm just not going to stress over it.  My book club is good folks, they won't hold a bit of mess against me.