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See this meal?

That there took about 20 minutes. I kid you not. And pictures never do justice to food...this stuff was A to the MAZING!! It was basically my version of hawaiian pork but without all the grease creating a pool for the rest of your food to bath in. Hawaiian food makes me feel sick but Kiel loves it so I made this as a greaseless alternative and the taste was perty darn perfect. And yes, it took a total of 20 minutes. OK! Here's how this puppys done.

You need:

  approximately 3 LBS pork roast (I just got the cheapo one and it couldn't have been tastier)

a can of root beer or pepsi (I used pepsi since thats what we had on hand)

Salt n Pepper

Put a skillet on the stove and turn the temp to med-high. Pour a few tsp of oil and get it nice and hot. Then place your roast in the oil and sear the sides of the roast. This should just take a few minutes. You don't want to cook the meat, just turn the sides nice and brown quickly...it holds in the flavor and juices since you will be crock potting (is that a word?) this.

Put the seared roast into your crock pot and turn it on low. Pour the can of soda over the meat and cover. Now go to church or work or something for about 6 hours while the roast cooks. Take the roast out and shred it. Place the meat back in the liquid and cook for one more hour. The liquid should be gone at this point leaving very moist shredded pork. Add salt and pepper to flavor. Because Hawaiian pork is generally pretty salty, I added quite a bit of salt...I don't measure (sorry folks) but it was like a tsp...just taste it. If it needs more, add more.

Preheat oven to 400. Rough chop an onion (or two) and some red potatoes. Place them on a cookie sheet and drizzle olive oil, oregano, rosemary, salt and pepper over them and stir them a little so they are evenly coated. Place cookie sheet in oven and these are done when your rice is done...about 20 minutes.

Put your rice on to cook. I cook mine on the stove but if you're a rice-cooker person then whatev. It takes about 20 mins either way.

20 minutes later everything is done cooking and you have a ridiculously easy, fast, delicious- as in seriously delicious- hot meal. 

Oh, and there was still some left over so the next day I warmed it up and stuck it on a bun and added some bbq sauce. Ohminagoota. It was just as good as it was the night before. So make some extra.

Note to self: measure ingredients in the future for blogging purposes...

3 ingredient pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

These pumpkin cookies are the easiest ever. And the most delicious ever. So moist and rich...Mmm! I'm suddenly wishing I hadn't eaten them all yesterday...then I could eat one right now instead of just salivating at the memory.

K here's how ya make em.

Gather your 3 ingredients: 16 oz can of pumpkin, spice cake mix, 2 cups of chocolate chips

 Pour cake mix and pumpkin into a bowl

 Blend.

 Reward the helper with egg-less cookie batter. WIN.

                                 Stir   in chocolate chips

 Plop on greased cookie sheet. These babes tend to stay fluffy so if you want them more flat squash them.

 Cook at 350 for about 14 minutes. Take them out of the oven and let them sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes (like 3ish) then transfer them to a cooling rack. Taste one and then do a happy dance for your success

 If you want a real wowzer- dress em up in a tasty cream cheese frosting.

 Cream cheese frosting is the simplest thing ever. Blend 1/4 cup of butter and 8 oz package of cream cheese (both at room temp) until creamy. Add 1 cup of powder sugar. Finally, add 1/2 tsp of vanilla. Baddabang! 

I guarantee you a whole new level of popularity...as long as you can muster up enough self control to share some of these before you eat them all!

Acorn treats

I started a book group and for our meeting yesterday I wanted to make something fun and fall-ish so I found a picture of these super cute acorn treats and decided to make them. They are so easy, cheap, and fun to make! Seriously took me 13 minutes from start to finish. Perfect right?! 

Wanna make em for your book club? or fall party or a fun after school snack or for you to devour in your closet or...so many delicious possibilities!

Gather your ingredients:

Pour chocolate chips in a little glass bowl {a quarter of bag makes about a dozen acorns}

 Nuke em for 15 seconds, stir, another 15 seconds, stir...until the chips are melted.

 Dip half a donut hole {I used plain and cinnamon} in the chocolate...

 ...immediately roll the chocolate half in sprinkles...

 ...break a pretzel stick in half and stick in the top of the acorn...

 ...place a sheet of wax paper on a cookies sheet and plop your acorn next to your 27 other acorns...

 ...stick your pan of acorns into the fridge for just a few minutes and WHALLA! Finemos! Delicioso!

 This is the really hard part. Exercise some serious self control and transfer them to a serving tray {without eating each before it reaches its destination} covered in a festive fall tea towel. 

 And if you're shooting for a sensory overload, place them right next to the tray of warm bite sized cinnamon rolls you just made. And a basket of plums. In case everyone isn't as weak as I.

Acorn idea stolen from someone somewhere off the internet who stole it from someone else who stole it from someone else. If you are the original acorn creativist shoot me an email and I will be happy to give credit where credit is due. Because you deserve it. This is a super cute and easy foodie craft!