Savvy with Abbie

Hi guys. It's been awhile since I've written a food blog and I have a good explanation. Everything that I have made lately has either been a blog post already or it's something like breakfast, BBQ, or pizza. I wasn't actually going to write a blog about this chuck roast that I made last night except it ended up being really good and then I realized that I haven't shared this recipe before. Forgive me as I only took ONE photo of my entire meal because I didn't plan on sharing. I didn't even get a photo of the food on my plate because by the time I thought about it, my plate was cleared! So, you have one photo but I am telling you this was so delicious! I have made so many pot roast recipes, click the link below if you are looking to try out some new and different ones: Easy Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Vegetables Crockpot Beef Pot Roast Easy Pot Roast with Carrots Tri-Tip Chuck Roast with Potatoes and Carrots Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots Anyways, on to t

Weekends are perfect for crockpot meals - they don't take too much time and they always turn out amazing. For this pot roast meal, I decided to combine two recipes - one from The Spuce Eats and one from a Google Search for "Cream of Mushroom Soup Substitute." The reasoning for this was because we had a Lipton Dry Onion Soup Mix that I thought would be good in the roast! We don't typically use regular onions but love the taste of Onion Powder or the soup mix. We also don't like mushrooms but I still enjoy cream of mushroom soup - or, in this case, a substitute. Ingredients: 3-4 pounds chuck roast 10 baby carrots 2 Tbsp butter 1 cup milk 1 1/2 cups water 1 packet Lipton (or any) packet dry onion soup mix 4 oz cream cheese Directions: Center the roast in the slow cooker. Add butter, milk, water, the onion mix and cream cheese. Turn the slow cooker on high. Cook for 4 hours, open the lid and try and shred the roast. Add the carrots. If the roast d

Guys, what a week, am I right?! For it being a short week and for me having a 3-day weekend, it has still been insane. Monday we took Jace to the instacare for his cough that unfortunately got worse overnight. We also found out he had an ear infection so he stayed home with me on Tuesday. Wednesday was a 13 hour day for me plus Kevin's birthday so I tried to make it as special as possible with great ideas from my Facebook friends :) Today was a 5.5 hour day and then I had to go to the hospital for a diagnostic to see if I have sleep apnea (pft with post bronchodilator spirometry). They did some breathing tests which were so hard for me to "pass" at times. They also gave me this medicine to see if my throat would enlarge to see if I have anything wrong. They mixed it with air and I breathed it in. It was so odd but, on the plus side, nothing seems wrong with my lungs or breathing :) Now to just figure out why I woke up twice in the past five months and not being able to