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So I have a recent affair to confess to...my crockpot. It has made my life exponentially simpler. I come home and he has a hot meal prepared and waiting, what's not to love? Except every recipe I google is cook this and that and then put it in the crock pot....I'm using the crock pot so I can just dump it in an forget it, why would I want to cook anything before I put it in the crock pot. I get it, you can make some pretty amazing stuff. But lets think about my life...its planned out in 15 minute increments still and I'm not even fighting anymore, the prep work involved in that is not my style. Sooo I am working on a new section of my blog of no prep crock pot recipes. I am sure to have a few fails. So this was my first experiment. We were short on time and had a lot of chicken thighs in the freezer. So into the bottom of the crock pot went 6 chicken thighs
On top of that I added: 2, 14 oz cans of diced tomatoes 6 oz can tomato paste 1/2 onion coarsely chopped (mostly because I don't like onions and I'm bad at chopping onions so this way I can pick them out if I want 4 or 5 cloves of garlic chopped or pressed (i used a press, back to that I'm bad at chopping) aprox. 1 teaspoon of oregano aprox. 1 teaspoon of basil aprox. 1 teaspoon of salt (I always go light and add more later) dash of tarragon, not required
When I came home from work and coaching I washed some broccoli and steamed it and put the chicken on a plate and less than 10 minutes later had an amazing dinner. Oh and the cheese makes it look pretty. And tasty. Better part is we had a lot of left overs.
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