I love to eat.

I love to eat.

I also love Pinterest. And Pinterest took me to this wonderful blog, Worthy of the Prize, that gave me this EASY & yummy Crock Pot Potato Soup Recipe.

I've made it a few times and I have had a lot of people ask me for the recipe. Michael and I love it.  I pretty much love anything that I can pour in the crock pot, leave for hours, and come back to a wonderful home cooked meal.

The only change I made to the original recipe was add a little bit more chicken broth and cut the cream cheese in half to make the consistency the way we liked it.

So here is my slightly different version...

Crock Pot Potato Soup

 
Ingredients:
1 bag frozen squared, southern style hash-brown potatoes
2 1/2 cans chicken broth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup chopped onion or 1 tbsp onion powder
1/3 tsp. ground black pepper
1/2 (4 oz) package cream cheese softened (I cut it into cubes for it to melt easier)

Directions:
1. In a crock pot, combine all ingredients (pour in frozen hash-browns)

2. Cover, and cook on low for 6 hours

3. You could add any toppings you want... Bacon bits, cheese, green onions... 


You can also cook it on the stove... Bring everything to a boil and then let it simmer 30-45 minutes. (Basically until your cream cheese is melted & your potatoes are soft)


Now I will leave you with this... because Downton Abbey made me mad.

Lions, Tigers, and Bears... Oh My!

Today is my beautiful Momma's Birthday!!  Happy Birthday to you!

We are going to Memphis this weekend to celebrate and of course watch the Tigers play the Eagles!!

I also can't wait to see these sweet babies and get some auntie time!

Let me recap the past couple of weekends...

Last weekend, Mom & her friend Mrs. Beth came to stay with us and we went to the Tigers game in Hattiesburg and watched them beat the Eagles!! It was a GREAT game!

We love us some Memphis Tigers! GO TIGERS GO!

Now this past weekend, on the other hand, we went from talking about going to the movies with our friends Dwayne and Audrey to... going CAMPING! And we did.

 

It was so beautiful out there!

The boys found the PERFECT camping spot!

 

 Audrey and I went to go climb on the limestone rocks (because we are hardcore campers)

and we found a cow skeleton. Holy Moly- how cool is that?!

 

 So the first incident may have been finding a skeleton, but then we move on to 

an ember landing on my shoe and burning a hole in the top. Oops...

 Look how beautiful our fire was! 

(Audrey and I were again hardcore campers and gathered the rocks to build our fire pit)

All in all the summary of this camping trip was: 

COLD. Coyotes. Cow Skeleton.

And in the wise words of Dwayne Johnson: 

"It's all fun and games until the fire goes out, then it gets real."

Next camping trip will not have a low of 27, but hopefully no lower than 50. :-)