It’s the weekend baby - Yay! So of course I slept in wonderfully and did not get up until a little after 9 am. My goal for the day, zilch! Guess what was for breakfast - Yes our regular weekend Spelt Pancakes. I threw the ingredients together and my husband cooked them on the griddle. They were as delightful as always. Since food has become such an integral part of my life, I was thinking about what we would eat all weekend and my husband suggested we do something in the crock pot. We haven’t used the crock pot in eons! I had some stew beef from my favorite farmer, Dick, which I thought would be ideal for the crock pot. So we cut that up, added some red potatoes, scallions, red onions, carrots, cilantro and let cook for most of the day. This dish was not ready in time for our late afternoon lunch but fortunately we had left over salad which we had at about 2:30 pm.

By 5 pm, I was hungry again so I made a smoothie to hold over till the stew was done.

- frozen blackberries and blueberries
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp ground flax seeds
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 banana
I love smoothies, they are so filling.

Dinner
When I did get hungry again at about 8 pm, the potatoes were not quite done yet, so I pulled enough food off the crock pot and used our cast iron pots to speed cook it. In no time we were enjoying this scrumptious meal.

It absolutely worth the wait or should I say the haste.