Crock Pot BBQ Chicken

We love chicken at our house.  Now that we have found Zaycon Foods we love chicken even more.  Check out their website where you can buy 100% natural chicken with no added hormones, additives or artificial ingredients! They also carry other wonderful items.

I love crock pot cooking so put the two together and it makes me and my family very happy.  We tried this recipe on Super Bowl weekend and it was delish!  It made a lot because the Zaycon Chicken Breats are huge!  So it will feed a crowd or eat the leftovers for lunch or freeze it!

Sweet Baby Ray’s Crock Pot Barbecue Chicken

Ingredients

• 5 to 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts thawed
• 1 (18 oz ) bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce (we used our favorite Famous Dave's Bottled BBQ Sauce) 
• 2 tablespoons vinegar 
• ½ cup of brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• add in:
• ½ to 1 full (18 oz ) jar of Peach Preserves (optional) I used a half a jar

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients together (except the chicken)
2. Put chicken in the crock pot and pour sauce mixture over the top.
3. With a large spoon, stir all together, coating chicken well.
4. Cook on low for 4 to 6 hours, or until chicken is fall apart tender.

recipe adapted from Get Off Your Butt and Bake

Serve it on rolls or not and with a side of oven fries and coleslaw, Yum!

Easy Apple-Cranberry Coleslaw

I love this Coleslaw because it isn't weighed down with mayo and it tastes great even the next day.

Here are a few of my families other favorite chicken dishes

Grilled Chicken Tacos



Aloha Chicken

Seventy's Chicken

This is one our most favorites and sorry this photo does not give it justice.

Dragons Love Tacos

It all started with this book Audrey found at the library.  I think we read it every night for the few weeks we loaned it.  Check it out at your local library, it is hilarious.  Then Audrey wanted tacos in a crunchy shell like the dragons.  I don't usually buy hard shells because they aren't kid friendly and break apart all over the place. But I did find this recipe for a baked taco in a hard shell and it sounded pretty good.  First I bought better shells not the super cheap kind and I also thought maybe baking them with the cheese would keep it all together, and it worked!  Serve it with a side of Cilantro Lime Rice and you will have a lot of happy dragons!  But don't feed your dragons spicy salsa or you will have a big problem on your hands, must read book to find out.

Oven Baked Beef Tacos

Ingredients:
1 lb lean ground beef
1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 medium onion, diced
1 (1 oz) packet taco seasoning
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup chunky salsa
12 hard taco shells*
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a large skillet, heat oil and add onion and garlic – saute for about 5 minutes until soft.  Add beef and taco seasoning, cooking until meat is browned. Add beans and salsa.  Mix well and let cook for a couple of minutes so that the flavors can meld and the mixture can thicken.
In a large 9x13" baking pan, line up all the taco shells. Fill each one with a couple of scoops of the beef mixture and pack down into the shell. Repeat until all the shells are filled. Top each taco with shredded cheese.
Bake for 8-10 minutes (or until all the cheese is melted).
Serve with your favorite taco toppings (tomatoes, lettuce, olives, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo , hot sauce, or whatever you like!).

Makes 4-6 servings (depending on how many tacos each person wants!).

Recipe adapted from Six Sisters Stuff

*I didn't want to cook all 12 shells because I knew we would not eat it all and it would go to waste.  So I kept the meat and me and my husband had it for lunch a couple days.  I just put the shells in a smaller pan to bake.  What I also liked about this recipe is that it had hidden beans for that extra protein and my kids didn't even notice.

Cilantro Lime Rice
Ingredients: 

• 1 cup extra long grain rice or basmati rice
• 1/2 lime, juice of
• 2 cups water
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro
• 3 tsp vegetable oil

Directions:

In a small heavy pot, add rice, water, 1 tsp oil and salt. Boil on high until most of the water evaporates. When the water just skims the top of the rice, reduce to low andcover about 15 minutes. Shut off flame and keep covered an additional 5 minute.

In a medium bowl, combine chopped cilantro, lime juice, rice and remaining oil and toss until completely mixed.

recipe adapted from skinnytaste.com

Chocolate Cake Mix Waffles and Berry Sauce

I love breakfast but I love breakfast more at dinner.  I tried making some chocolate waffles a couple times last year and they stuck horrible in the waffle iron even after heavily greasing the iron.  I was craving chocolate waffles again so I went searching on Pinterest.  I found the most easiest recipe ever and the best tasting I have tried also.  I cut them in cute little hearts, dumped some yummy sauce over the top add way too much whipped topping and your kids will love you!

Chocolate Cake Mix Waffles

• Chocolate Cake Mix (make according to directions)
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Here’s what you do:

• Make the cake mix according to the directions. Then add a 1/2 cup of flour. This makes the batter a little thicker and the waffles pop out easier.  Stir in chocolate chips.
• Preheat waffle iron, grease it and pour in batter.
• Then top with berry sauce and whipped topping.  Or ice cream would be a yummy dessert version.
• Serve immediately

recipe adapted from here

Berry Sauce

3 cups frozen berries (I used mostly raspberries and a few strawberries I had)

2 tablespoons water

1/4 cup jam (strawberry or raspberry)

Place all ingredients into microwave safe bowl, cook on defrost until berries are almost soft.  Dump the mixture in a blender or food processor and puree it up!  If you don't have a blender you could mash it with a potato masher or fork until it is the consistency you like.

recipe adapted from Our Best Bites

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