To pie or not to pie?

I love pumpkin pie, but I'm really busy.

Rob and I spend T-day traveling to LA. I won't see anyone else I know until Friday afternoon. And Rob doesn't eat pie, and my recipe makes two pies.

But I love pumpkin pie.

But I don't like store bought pumpkin pie. And I'm really busy.

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EDIT @8:54PM: OK, already, I went to the store. Now I'm going to sit and rest my feet for an hour or so, and then I can stand up to make pie. :-)

Crock Pot Recipes!

I finally joined the twentieth century (yeah, only a handful of years late) by buying a crock pot. It's a leetle one (4qt). There's still no way it will fit on my counter.

Now I have to figure out what to do with it. Do cats try to steal food from crock pots when you're at the office? Does it work better if you plug it in? Should I wash it with like colors??

So please, pretty please, post your favorite crock pot recipes here! I'd love to have a recipe YOU tried and liked. (I can google on my own.) If you have fifty favorites and want to narrow it down, here are some ideas that tickle my fancy:
- Anything starting with boneless skinless chicken breasts.
- Anything involving rosemary.
- Anything involving capers. Can you make chicken piccata in a crock pot?
- Veggie stews would be great.
- No fish or seafood for me, thanks, and I'm not a big fan of mushrooms or eggplant either. Of course, other people may love seafood a la portabello, so I certainly won't feel bad if you leave those recipes here too. Someone other'n me may love 'em.

I am hoping for easy stuff. I spent money on this object because I hoped it would help me AVOID WORK. My dream recipe says "Buy two pounds of this and a bunch of that and three firm ones of those, bring it all home, wash it, chop the veggies, and throw it in the pot with these herbs."*

On a separate but related note, my entire house smells like piiiiiiiie. Mmmm!

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* My nightmare recipe says "Remove the excess body parts from this, sear it in the pan and use the drippings in a complicated sauce you make on the stove, pull out the fancy marinated sauteed that-and-the-other-things you made last night, add the obscure spice you can get only in downtown Very Large City, tie the meat in a number 457 macrame knot, throw all of it in the pot, and every half hour use an obscure tool you can get only by mail order to do thus to the mixture." I mean, leave that one here if you want, but it'll take me several lifetimes to work my way up to it.