Showing posts with label Italian food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian food. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Yummy Italian Chicken Crockpot Dump

Sounds delicious, no? Haha, keep reading.

Remember that crockpot chicken salsa stuff I like to make? (the one where I get to put frozen chicken in the crockpot and cover it with salsa and corn and black beans and cream cheese? yummm), well this is like that... but Italian-ish. :)

I forgot to take a picture, but it was SOOOO good everyone had seconds! (We had 4 missionaries over too!) So it makes a lot. :)


- Just take your crockpot.

- Put some frozen chicken in. (I had 3 breasts and didn't want to use a lot of our meat, so it's all I put in)

- 2 cans cream of chicken soup
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 2 cans diced tomatoes (maybe of the seasoned sort - like with basil, oregano, and garlic)
(go ahead, just dump them all in)

- Italian seasonings (stuff like crushed basil leaves, oregano, marjoram, thyme, etc... whatever is in that blend called "Italian Seasoning")
- Black pepper

- Maybe some other seasonings... like coriander... or cumin... or garlic salt.. you know, whatever you feel like dumping in.

- Maybe a cup of water, if you feel like it.

- A block of cream cheese (put it in in the beginning or save it for later.... either way. - I ended up doing half and half, actually. I wasn't sure how much cream cheese I wanted, but I ended up using the whole 8 oz)

- Turn that puppy on high for 3-4 hours or low for 6+ hours. Just cook it until that chicken is cooked through.

- Then shred the chicken with a couple forks and mix it all together. Let it sit another 30 min to an hour (or longer) so the chicken will absorb all the flavor.

- Serve it over rice.

YUM!!!!

SO easy, SO simple, and seriously, dump it in and let it sit. Cook your rice in a rice cooker and it's even less work! Man, I love food that cooks itself. :)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Emeril

Ahh, Emeril. BAM!

Okay, so I'm actually not THE biggest fan of Emeril, like a crazy fanatic fan, but I do like a lot of his food.

In one of my classes at BYU we used a cookbook of his that he designed with kids in mind. The recipes and directions are simplified and I just plain LOVE the book! I used recipes from it when I student taught and I use one particular recipe from it ALL THE TIME! It's heavenly! It's for fettuccine alfredo, but this version is actually a lot like a carbonara. Anyhow, here you go.