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A few nights ago, I was brows­ing through my new Rival Slow-Cooker cook­book (yes—I bought a cook­book solely devoted to Crock-pot recipes—I have that much faith in them). As I was skim­ming the pages, decid­ing what recipes I wanted to pick up ingre­di­ents for at the store, I came across a recipe for stuffed chicken. It looked good and sounded delicious, […]

Think about it: have you ever had a home-cooked Crock-Pot meal that wasn’t absolutely deli­cious? Okay, maybe that ques­tion is a lit­tle extreme. I mean, it’s not like I’ve kept a run­ning record or any­thing, but to my rec­ol­lec­tion, I’ve never had a bad Crock-Pot meal. And the great­est thing about Crock-Pot meals is that they are so easy! How […]

1. We took Cora to the beach (well, the har­bor) on Mon­day. Our friends that we spent the hol­i­day with live in Point Loma about five min­utes (walk­ing) to the ocean. Matt and I aren’t huge beach peo­ple, so we haven’t been to the ocean ALL SUMMER! We walked down to the har­bor and let Cora […]

Matt and I spent most of our hol­i­day on Mon­day hang­ing with our friends, Bran­don and Lau­ren. After lunch, Lau­ren brought out these amaz­ing oat­meal, choco­late chip cook­ies out that she had made with her sis­ter the night before. She used a recipe that she and her sis­ter found on cookinglight.com. Yes, friends… that means these cookies […]