Cooking Thursday

I use my crockpot a lot so I'm always interested in new recipes for it. I came across this one recently and made it last week.  It's another one of those recipes that is so easy to put together and you get a yummy meal later in the day!  You can serve it over mashed potatoes or pasta, and you only need a veggie or salad to complete the meal.

Italian Cream Chicken

1 1/2 pounds chicken breast tender
1 package Good Season Italian dressing mix
3/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 small sweet onion, finely chopped
8 ounces softened cream cheese
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sour cream
Hot linguine or mashed potatoes

Combine water, dressing mix and salt in a large ziploc bag.
Add chicken tenders and onions. Marinade at least 2 hours or overnight.
Place chicken in slow cooker and pour marinade over top.
Cook on low for 3 hours.
Beat together the cream cheese, heavy cream and sour cream.
Pour over chicken and cook for another 1-2 hours.
Serve over linguine or mashed potatoes.

Wordless Wednesday

 

Squirrels and pine cones!

We have some big pine trees in our yard, and this time of year they start dropping pine cones.

This is what they look like, they're about 6 inches long.

A funny thing has happened this year.

We are finding things like this....

and this!

Apparently, the squirrels are enjoying them.  They have a few places they take them to and leave the remainders looking like corn cobs. You can also see all the little "petals" from the cones laying on the ground, all dry and brown. So I really don't know what the squirrels are doing with them and it's not something we've seen in years past.

There's no real point to this post, but I thought it was interesting and a little funny, so I thought you might too!