Good Eats: Crock Pot Gyros!

I adore Gyros!  I flipped when I found this recipe for gyros cooked with a crock pot, because nothing is as easy as crock pot cooking. These gyros have become a staple in our house, and I hope your family will love them too.

1 lb. Ground Lamb
1 lb. (or more) Ground Pork
1 tsp. Paprika
2 tsp. Oregano
1 tsp. Salt
Black Pepper
Lemon Juice

1/2 Chopped Onion
4 Cloves of Garlic

1. In a medium bowl, blend together spices.  Add ground meats and mush up with your hands till well blended.  (The original recipe calls to it into a food processor to combine, but cleaning fatty meat pieces out of my blades caused my gag reflex to go crazy). Form into a even sized loaf.










2. Place chopped onions and garlic in the bottom of the crock pot.  Place loaf on top. Squeeze lemon juice on top of loaf.






3.  Cook on Low for 4 hours

4.  Serve with Pita Bread (or Naan), chopped lettuce, tomatoes, feta cheese, olives, and tzatziki sauce

The Case of the Missing Remotes

   It was a normal Monday in the quite suburb house. The weekend had just flown by with fun outings and movie rentals. The only cloud that shadowed the weekend was a continual hunt for a missing stereo remote. Little Olivia had a fondness for remotes, so the family thought it would eventually show up discarded in a toy bin. They never suspected this cloud would turn into a storm.

   That Monday morning, Mary did her normal morning chores as she listened to TV news quietly in the background. Little Olivia was on the hunt for entertainment, and her attention was captured by a remote laying on the coffee table. As she held it with glee, she accidentally pushed a button that made the TV switch channels. This caught the attention of her mother. Mary smiled and chuckled as she pried the remote from Olivia's chubby little hands, switched the channel back, and placed the remote on the back of the couch. That was the last time she could remember seeing the remote.

   Nap time came, and Mary couldn't find the remote. Dinner past, no remote. Kid's bedtimes came and went, and still no remote. This became too much for Mary. Couches were overturned, toy bins spilled out, kitchen cabinets checked, yet still no remotes. By now the sun had set and darkness had settled over both the sky and Mary's mode. The hassle of getting up to change the volume and channel every few minutes had burned a determination into her to solve this mystery.

    Then something sparked a memory. Mary vaguely remembered taking a piece of paper from Olivia's hands earlier in the day that she had thought she had already thrown in the trash. On a hunch, Kevin and Mary trudged out into the dark alley with flashlights to the dumpster. A stinky trash bag covered with a mysterious rotten slush was fished out of the abyss. Mary carefully unloaded the refuse to find her hunch was correct. In the bottom of the trash laid the missing TV remote. While Mary and Kevin rejoiced at the find, they were saddened to think that the stereo remote missing over the weekend was most likely discarded days ago. Never to be seen again.

    It seems little Olivia has a new habit that will be impossible to constantly monitor. Now worries overshadow the house as to what object Olivia will heartlessly discard next and who is going to have to sort through the trash to save it!