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| I had to get a shower so we could take this picture. |
I'm starting a food blog and I hate to cook. I HATE IT. For reals. There is no joy in it for me and it makes me kind of sick to my stomach and nervous when I'm asked what I have in mind for dinner. Because I have nothing in mind. In fact, I was hoping YOU (the asker) was going to do it for me. Or really, ANYONE ELSE. Fortunately, my husband loves to cook and does it a lot. A really lot. But he gets sick of it too. Plus he works a lot. So if you're a foodie, this blog is not for you. Run away. Fast.
Also, I'm a Weight Watcher. I have been for years, but I really got down to business this past year and lost about 20 pounds. I haven't told anyone this online before now, but I reached goal the week after Christmas. I was on a mission and I'm pretty proud to say I did it.
So what the hell am I rambling about? This friend on FB had a lot of great people give suggestions for dinner ideas. Unfortunately it all looked really complex to me, involved lots of cooking and freezing or lots of sauces and things my family won't eat. So here's what I'm doing. I'm going to start by posting the very easiest, go-to recipe one of my BFF's told me about. I still think it's too much work, but I can force myself to do it about every other week. I won't use her name in case it would freak her out, so we'll call this BFF Crockpot Chicken.
It's so easy and still I hate the 15 minutes it takes me to put it together. Frankly, I don't like touching raw meat. (see how cooking phobic I am) But it's a necessary evil. And I wash my hands about 20 times because I am raw meat/germ phobic.
Here's the recipe:
About 2 pounds of Chicken breast, all the icky stuff trimmed off to within an inch of it's life.
A bottle of Kraft Tuscan Italian dressing (BFF uses Zesty Italian)
A crockpot
Put chicken in the crockpot, cover with 3/4 bottle of dressing and set to high for 6 hours, or low for longer.
When it's cooked through, we shred it up and serve it on salad (bagged! Or lettuce lasts forever in salad spinner) and on flour or corn tortillas with lettuce, cheese etc. Or we eat it with our favorite Vigo yellow saffron rice that takes awhile to make, but husband always cooks it so I'm OK with that.
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| Chicken breast I trimmed and thawed. Still a pain in my ass. |
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| Cubed chicken to sautee later (hopefully husband will do it) because my son won't eat the saucy chicken. NO JUDGING. |
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| Add about 3/4 of bottle, make sure to shake it well so you get the good stuff in the crockpot. |
That's it! I'll post our dinner pictures later tonight, if I remember and get the dishes and laundry done at 10 pm when I finally get everyone home and fed and winding down.
I can't promise I'll post a lot but I'm going to do it when I'm inspired and having fun! Thanks for joining me and if you have great, SUPER EASY and delish recipes I can try, just email me at shelley@onelessnemesis.com.
I'm going to the store tomorrow and I'm buying that dressing. Done and done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debbie! You totally inspired me to do this, so hopefully we'll both end up with some good stuff from here :)
DeleteI love to cook, but when I'm not up to it, this is my go-to:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.apronstringsblog.com/one-pot-wonder-tomato-basil-pasta-recipe/
Everything is thrown into one pot and there's very little chopping to do!
Christy - thank you for posting this! It actually looks like something ALMOST everyone in my family will eat and that I can actually try! YES!
DeleteI love this blog already. I, too, hate to cook. Under the guise of "teaching my children life skills," I often leave them on their own to scavenge for dinner. Shout out to Amy's vegan burritos and Stouffer's mac and cheese for helping them survive thus far.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to try the Italian dressing chicken in the crock pot! Here's another variation -- use a big jar of salsa instead. Then use the chicken in different things: over chips with cheese as nachos, rolled up in tortillas with cheese melted on top, set up a "burrito bar" (black beans, rice, cheese, avocado, diced tomato, etc). Overachievers can soak and cook the beans and dice the tomatoes; I plop them out of a can and into the microwave.
Good luck with this new venture! I am looking forward to more recipes! :)
Thank you Beth! Yes, I love our Schwann man and getting some frozen meals from him. I love the chicken and salsa too! I get angry with cooking overachievers, unless they're making something good for me, and I generally think they'll find this blog ridiculous but I'm just going to have fun with it! I did not know you hated cooking too! It makes me love you even more, Beth!
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