12.26.2012
Crock It Up!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! If you’re anything like me after baking, cleaning, wrapping, eating, drinking, and enjoying the holidays than the last thing, the few days after the holidays, do you want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking? SOOOO….I have attached one of my most favorite (kids and hubby approved too) recipes for the crock pot. It comes from Jamie Cooks It Up (boy does she ever!), the few recipes of hers that I have tried are FANFREAKINGTASTIC! So go sit back down and enjoy the rest of the kids TWO WEEK CHRISTMAS VACATION, hmmm can we send them back tomorrow instead?
Enjoy the rest of 2012, and here’s to an EVEN BETTER 2013! Hey the world didn’t end we got that going for us!
Xoxo
Hockey Mommy
Creamy Ranch Chicken with Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Time: 20 min. prep + 4-6 hours crock pot cooking
Yield: 6 servings
Recipe adapted from my dear friend Tricia Toponce
Creamy Ranch Chicken:
5-6 chicken breasts (I used frozen)
2 (14 ounce) cans cream of chicken soup
4 T butter, melted
2 (1 ounce) packages Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing Mix
4-5 cloves garlic
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes:
7 large russet potatoes
4 T butter
milk
salt and pepper
1. Find yourself a nice crock pot. Spray the inside with cooking spray and place 5-6 chicken breasts in it. (I used frozen)
2. In a small bowl combine 2 cans cream of chicken soup, 2 packages ranch mix and 4 tablespoons melted butter. Spread it over the top of your chicken.
3. Peel your garlic and place the cloves on top of a sheet of tin foil.
4. Wrap the foil around the cloves and up into a nice little package.
5. Place the garlic package in the crock pot on top of the chicken. Cover the crock and let the old girl cook away on low for 6 hours, or on high for 4 hours.
6. When your chicken has cooked through carefully take the tin foil package out of the crock pot and set it on a plate.
7. Peel your potatoes and chop them into chunks. Boil them for about 15 minutes, or until fork tender and then drain the water out of the pan.
8. Mash up some of the roasted garlic and add it to the potatoes. Just start with a small amount of garlic, maybe 1-2 teaspoons. You can always add more, if you want it really garlicky…but you don’t want to overpower it.
9. Add 4 tablespoons of butter, salt and pepper and a bit of milk. Beat the potatoes until light and fluffy, tasting along the way and adding more salt and pepper or butter or milk or garlic to your own very personal liking and desire.
Serve the potatoes with the gravy from the crock pot and the heavenly Creamy Ranch Chicken.
Enjoy!
I'm a mom, I got this ;O) 
I’m printing this out now so I can make this for dinner!!! I’m all for crock pot recipes!!
Hope you like it. I have a great beef stroganoff. Recipe if your interested. I love to use my crock pot as often as possible. One less thing to worry about.
I love anything that can be done and forgotten! (My email is different but I am Pamela from Saturdays) The only thing that stinks worse than frantic is gripes about the outcome of frantic isn’t as was expected. This fits the bill for sure! Thanks Hockey Mom!
No problema. I have several posted on pinterest if you pin. Look for jessica rose. They are under hockey road trip recipes.