Okay, it's been awhile but I've decided it's worth my extra time to actually get back to making home cooked meals instead of opening a can a zoodles for the kids and making myself a can of soup. 
some reason I get bored of cooking and just stop doing it. I guess I still make food but it's just not good. At Christmas time I tried really hard to make tasty things for my guests to eat, we had roast, with veggies, mashed potatos and gravy. Another night we had stuffed turkey breasts with the trimmings- it was all yummy! Since then I've been putting a little more thought into dinner times (we still do zoodles for lunch). I've made a really good Shepherds' pie, lazy man cabbage rolls, and tonight I made a slow cooker stew that turned into an oven stew before dinner time. The inspiration behind a couple of those dishes were these sauce packages. What a difference they make in the taste of my cooking! Now, I'm not saying that my cooking is usually bland and tasteless because it's not but my cooking always tastes the same- these sauce mixes help my food taste new and exciting again! I think I'm impressing myself the most, but that's okay too. Paige ate three servings of the shepherds pie, and that is unheard of!
So, on my next shopping trip I plan to raid the 'Club House' sauces and seasonings sections and I'll keep you all updated on my creations. It's been awhile since I did a picture by picture recipe walk through... I plan to do one soon. I'm just hoping my ass doesn't respond in a bad way to all my great tasting cooking... don't answer that!!
On a non food related note- I want to give a shout out to Suz (the neighbor we all know and love) for writing such a touching blog post about our friendship. Rest assured hers is coming... just not for a little while.
I should be off, I need to get some kids to bed and finish up a grocery list for tomorrow...
Hugs to all,
~jen
Cook on sister. What keeps me from eating out is all the money we don't have to spend on it. I'm lucky I've got three who can cook. BTW, that was an amazing potato!
Mimi
Posted by: Mimi | Jan 19, 2008 at 05:24 PM
OH, just ask Paige about the roast. She ate a tonne! for a girl who doesn't like meat she loved this one - especially the carrots :)
Posted by: Suz | Jan 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Oh Jen, you're silly - I've been meaning to write about you for sometime now so with the news I figured now was the best time :)
I SWEAR by the clubhouse slow cooker pot roast sauce package - OMG it makes for some GOOOOOOOD Roast!
Posted by: Suz | Jan 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I'm trying to get away from eating out so often. I noticed on that site that it says McCormick for the USA, wonder if they taste the same?!? lol Might have to try a few of them.
That post from Suz yesterday had me a little teary eyed, such a sweet friendship you two have! :)
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 10, 2008 at 08:27 AM