Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

For Valentine's Day I made Ben Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk cookies, because who doesn't love cookies?!  The recipe came from the back of the Ocean Spray Craisins bag.  They were pretty good but I think if I made them again I would  make a couple changes.

Recipe:

2/3 cup butter, softened (I used unsalted butter)

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats

1 1/2 cups flour (I used whole wheat, next time I think I would use 1/2 white 1/2 whole wheat flour)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt (next time I will leave this out, the cookies taste a little salty)

1 5-ounce bag of Craisins

2/3 cups white chocolate chips 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Mix butter and brown sugar together with electric mixer.  Add eggs, and mix.  In separate bowl add oats, flour, and baking soda (this is also where you add the salt).  Add dry mixture to butter and sugar mixture a little at a time, mixing after each addition.  Stir in Craisins and chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes (I baked for 9 minutes, as the first batch were over cooked).  

Pot Roast

I have become a huge fan of the crockpot.  It is nice to have leftovers for lunches and/or dinners for the entire week.  This weekend I decided to make something out of my "101 Slow Cooker Recipes" cookbook:

Pot Roast

2 cups baby carrots

5 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut up (the recipe called for regular potatoes but I really like sweet potatoes)

4 lb. chuck roast

Tastefully Simple's Garlic Garlic (the recipe called for garlic salt but I put Garlic Garlic in just about everything I make)

Pepper to taste

2 cups water

1 oz. package onion soup mix

Place carrots and potatoes in slow cooker.  Place roast on top (I cut it up into chunks), sprinkle Garlic Garlic and pepper on top.  Stir together water and soup mix, pour over roast.  Cover and cook on low setting for 6 to 8 hours.

This recipe called for dumplings, which I decided to skip but after eating it I think that next time I will add them.  Without the dumplings to soak up some of the liquid the pot roast was more of a soup.  I will also add more vegetables (maybe green beans, celery, etc.) and spices.  Maybe instead of the onion soup mix I would add spices (bay leaf, garlic powder, onion powder etc.).  This would cut down on the sodium and make it more flavorful.