Taking a page from The Crock Pot Lady, who is my new hero, I going to try to use the crock pot more than once a week. I’m not quite sure I’m ready for daily yet. Baby steps.

First, I’m going to try her Red Wine and Cranberries Pot Roast next time I do a roast. Looks delicious.

Second, I forgot to thaw any kind of meat for tonight’s dinner. What to do? Crock pot!

Today’s experiment:

6 frozen chicken thighs
1 bottle General Tso’s sauce

Put chicken pieces into the crock pot. Season with salt. Pour sauce over the chicken. Set pot on Low, 8 hours.

When ready to eat, I’ll cook some rice in the rice cooker and will add some frozen broccoli to the crockpot. I figure in the time it takes the rice to cook, the broccoli will have warmed. Maybe I’ll add it a bit earlier than when I start the rice, just to be sure.

I’ll let you know how it tastes later, but it smells yummy right now.

1. Oh my gosh the Cranberry Pot Roast sounds to die for.  Let me know how the Gen. Tso’s turns out, too.  Yum, yum!

   Posted by  on  03/31/08  at  01:58 PM

2. I read a crockpot recipe the other day similar to this, or maybe it was this one, I think it had a different sauce than General Tso’s. I think it was orange chicken in a crockpot or something like that that I was going to make for the misses and it called for frozen chicken parts in the pot, which I liked the idea of. Let me know how they come out.

   Posted by  on  03/31/08  at  01:58 PM

3. You may have seen it at the Crock Pot Lady’s blog. She has a ton of chicken recipes. I got the idea of just using the frozen chicken pieces from her - she does it all the time.

   I’m doing a roaster chicken in the crock pot on Wednesday. I’ll post that recipe then.

   Posted by  on  03/31/08  at  02:14 PM

4. Oh! The JENeral’s kitchen. That didn’t take me a couple of days to get, or anything…

   Posted by PrincessJami  on  04/01/08  at  10:55 AM

5. Okay, NOW I get it!  Thanks, Jami!

   So how did it turn out?

   Posted by  on  04/01/08  at  11:18 AM

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