It's Crock Pot season. In actuality, a new era of slow cooking started here a month after baby Vivie arrived. We were beside ourselves trying to balance three kiddos and our basic human need to eat. The great take out food nightly debate was making us cranky.
Then one evening, after the babies were all asleep and Brett and I had dined with the toaster and some English muffins, I noticed several friends "liked" Crock Pot Girls on Facebook.
Intrigued and hoping to overcome my self perceived status as a failed homemaker because I couldn't possibly mother three girls and cook nightly meals, I "liked" and made this:
Balsamic (Crock Pot) Chicken
4-6 boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
2 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 onion thinly sliced (Not chopped)
4 garlic cloves
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
2 T olive oil
1 tsp each: dried oregano, basil, and rosemary
1/2 tsp thyme
ground black pepper and salt to taste
Pour the olive oil on bottom of crock pot
Place in chicken breasts, salt and pepper each breast
Put sliced onion on top of chicken
Then put in all the dried herbs and garlic cloves
Pour in vinegar and top with tomatoes
We haven't looked at a take out menu since!
Which means that at the top of my wish list there's a new crock pot of all things. If it's going to be sitting on my countertop every day, I want it to be prettier. Unlike this bad boy, which we received for our wedding 14 years ago.
It could be the ugliest thing we own. It has a forest green ceramic insert and an ivy trellis, I do believe.
So, I'm dreaming about an upgrade. A
I wonder if they have a leasing program?
