Pork Chop Meal in the Crock Pot

Followed this recipe: http://hickeryhollerfarm.blogspot.com/2012/03/crock-pot-cooking.html

My mom liked the idea of it because it was something we've never tried to do with our crock pot. And for me, I've been in love with trying all sorts of different things from pinterest lol.

Because it took 6 hours to cook, it would of been done way too early if my mom did it before work. So i had to set an alarm to get up and get it started, then i went back to bed.

Had to cook the pork chops just alittle before putting them in.

Then added one can of cream of mushroom and some sliced mushrooms.

Wrapped the corn and potatoes and placed those on top and started the crock pot. Once done, it looked like this...

A few things that didn't work for us:
- the potatoes weren't actually cooked. My mom had to finish them in the microwave.
- Our crock pot almost wasn't big enough for this. Not sure what size ours is though.

Best part of this....The pork chops. They were AMAZING! So moist and tender. Was easy to cut. Makes me want to try it again just for the pork chops. Or at least just do the pork chop part of this.

Idaho Baked Potato Soup

My mom is a big potato fan. She found a postcard with a potato soup recipe on it and wanted to try it. My mom was the one who mostly made this, i just helped get her things and such. Recipe for this will be posted at the bottom, since it was on a postcard, i just took pictures of it, i can write it out if anyone requests it.

The soup was good. We also had grilled cheese with soup, so i got full pretty fast from the soup being thick. Only thing i'd probably change about it would be making the potato chunks alittle smaller. But i just like things being smaller and bite size.

Would of been nice if a little more bacon in it. I just love bacon. Maybe i should make some sort of bacon soup lol.

While my mom was getting the potatoes for this soup, she found this fun little potato that looks like a heart. I thought it would be perfect for pictures with the soup, this was the best one i got.

Now for the recipe: (i wish i knew if we had an Idaho magnet...might of, but my daughter likes the magnets and loses them. So i picked our Oregon one because that's where i'm from)