This is so easy and delicious. Not the healthiest thing you can make but sometimes you just have to dump some stuff in a crockpot and hit the easy button, ya know? I did not make up this recipe, someone posted it on a dinner group I created on Facebook. Kids loved it! 

French onion Steak
2-3lb chuck roast
2 packets French onion soup mix
2 tbsp butter on top (looking at the pic I think i did more than 2. Don’t judge lol)
2 sliced onions
Low 8 hours 
Served over rice but would also make great French dip sammies

I kind of forgot about this blog until I got a notification that the domain was set to autopay. I almost canceled it but then I thought to myself…I really used to enjoy posting recipes here. But then also thought well I also don’t really cook that much anymore so should I bother? Hmm….let’s see what happens shall we?

I’m going to post a recipe that was recommended to me but I haven’t tried yet. My dear friend and colleague from my office, Sandra, and I love to share recipes. So if she tells me this is good I’m definitely going to make it and so should you!

Chinese Style Chicken Salad with Ginger Dressing is just one of those salads that is so delicious it’s almost like eating junk food. Can’t wait to make this one! THANK YOU SANDRA FOR EVERYTHING!!

I wasn’t really sure how this recipe was going to turn out. It didn’t have a ton of ingredients…but most importantly they were all ingredients I had in my fridge or freezer! So voila…a pot roast was born! I have to say this is the BEST pot roast recipe that I’ve ever used. And my kids gobbled it UP! Now my five year old keeps asking me if I’m going to “boil the steak” which is five-year old speak for put the meat in the crockpot. They just keep it real, y’all! If you don’t have a five-year old…you are missing out on all the truths. They will tell if you your breath smells or if you packed them the worst lunch ever because they do not like pita chips. But I digress…let’s get back to the beef. Ok so I loved this pot roast, kids ate and I’m making it again for company tomorrow. I like to make things when we are having people over that don’t require me to be rushing around the kitchen like a sweaty lunatic just as they are walking in the door. When you have company over, it is important to look like your house is always this clean, your kids are always in matching clean clothes and that you just threw a little something super tasty together for dinner and it was super easy.

You guys that was a test…if you have to trick your friends into thinking your house is always clean then you need to get new friends! I like to have friends that expect me in yoga pants with kid crap all over the place. If you are reading my little blog, you are probably one of those people!

So make this amazing pot roast and impress the heck out of who ever is lucky enough to have you cook for them!

Til next time…if Cam can cook then so can you! xoxo

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I’ve been following the Trim Healthy Mama diet lately and it has been working for me. I also use my Wildtree spices to make this diet work for me and the two go together perfectly!! Last night I was really craving pizza so I made a cauliflower crust pizza. I wish I could tell my kids thought this was the best pizza ever. I wish I could tell you my five year old didn’t gag the entire time he was eating it. I cannot. But guess what…more pizza for me. And I thought it was awesome. The 5 yo can detect a vegetable from like ten miles away and will avoid it at all costs. His loss!

So here is the recipe I made up based on some ones I read on the internet:

1 head cauliflower

2 tsp Wildtree Pizza Sauce Blend

1 tsp Wildtree Garlic Galore

1 egg

1/4 cup mozzarella

1/4 cup parmesan

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

1. process the cauliflower in your food processor until is resembles flour.
2. microwave cauliflower for 6 minutes and then lay out on a kitchen towel. When cool enough, squeeze as much water as you can from the cauliflower.
3. In a bowl, mix together thoroughly cauliflower, mozzarella, parmesan, Wildtree Pizza Sauce Blend, Wildtree Garlic Galore, and egg.
4. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
5. Pour cauliflower mixture onto parchment paper and pat into a pizza crust shape making crust pretty thin.
6. Bake crust for 8-10 minutes or until slightly browned.
7. top with your favorite toppings and then bake again for 10 minutes. Enjoy!

My four year old has declared a war on eggs. No egg shall grace his plate without monumental amounts of whining and complaining. So what’s a mom to do? Make some freaking sneaky egg hiding pancakes, that’s what!  So these pancakes are also gluten free so that’s a win for us too.

Hope you enjoy!

Power Protein Pancakes

Makes approx 12 pancakes

3 bananas

3 eggs

1 cup almond flour

add a little bit of almond milk if the mixture is not liquid-y enough. Or you can also add another egg.

Mash everything together and then you have a wonderful pancake batter with which to deceive your children with. 🙂 Go forth and be smug!