Lime Cilantro Chicken

This recipe works great for chicken that you use for quesadillas or nachos, or you can simply serve the chicken with cooked brown rice and vegetables. If you only have two hours, cut each chicken breast into about 4 pieces and cook on HIGH in slow cooker. The chicken should be cooked throughout in about two hours.

Ingredients:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 teaspoons olive oil
1/4 cup lime juice
1/4 cup nonalcoholic or light beer
1 teaspoon minced or chopped garlic
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro, packed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Source: WebMD.com

Directions:

in a mixing bowl. Coat each fillet with the mixture and wrap in aluminum foil. Wrap asparagus seperately and coat with the remainder of the mixture. Put all of the foil packets in a crock pot with the asparagus on top. Put a lid on the pot and cook on slow for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Confirm fish is fully cooked before consuming.

Number of Servings: 8

It cannot get any simpler than this!

You will need:

• Beef Roast
• Garlic Salt

To make this:

• Put roast in crockpot
• Cover with garlic salt until meat is white from salt
• Fill crockpot with water so half of roast in sitting in water.

If you are on a low sodium diet. you may want to use Ms. Dash to replace garlic salt….

Cook on low for at least 8 hours or until the meat is tender.

If you would like to make gravy then use some corn starch to thicken the gravy up or make a rue by using 1 T Butter melted in pan combines with 2T Flour…cook mixture for 3 min and then slowly add liquid from crock pot wisking together each time you add broth to rue mixture.

I know…. desserts…from a Crock Pot…who’d a thunk it?


But what a great way to warm up on a cold day!

CROCKPOT HOLIDAY WASSAIL PUNCH

Ever wonder what people do when they go wassailing? Well, the truth is, as good as it may sound, wassailing is not all its cracked up to be…

According to Wikipedia…
“In the cider-producing counties in the South West of England (primarily Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire) wassailing refers to a traditional ceremony that involves singing and drinking the health of trees in the hopes that they might better thrive. The purpose of wassailing is to awake the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in the Autumn.{“England In Particular”, Common Ground 2007} The ceremonies of each wassail vary from village to village but they generally all have the same core elements. A wassail King and Queen lead the song and/or a processional tune to be played/sung from one orchard to the next, the wassail Queen will then be lifted up into the boughs of the tree where she will place toast soaked in Wassail from the Clayen Cup as a gift to the tree spirits (and to show the fruits created the previous year). Then an incantation is usually recited such as

Here’s to thee, old apple tree, That blooms well, bears well. Hats full, caps full, Three bushel bags full, An’ all under one tree. Hurrah! Hurrah!

Wassail as a Beverage…

Wassail the beverage is a hot, mulled punch often associated with Yuletide. Historically, the drink was a mulled cider made with sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg and topped with slices of toast. Modern recipes begin with a base of wine, fruit juice, or mulled ale, sometimes with brandy or sherry added. apples or oranges, are often added to the mix. While the beverage typically served as “wassail” at modern holiday feasts with a medieval theme most closely resembles mulled cider, historical wassail drinks were completely different, more likely to be mulled beer or mead. Sugar, ale, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon would be placed in a bowl, heated, and topped with slices of toast as sops.”

So armed with a better understanding of was a wassel is – I went in search of a receipe and behold, I found a crock pot receipe for a wassaill on cooks.com

1 qt. apple juice

1 qt. orange juice

2 c. cranberry juice

2 tsp. lemon juice

1 can pineapple nectar

1 cup sugar

3-4 cinnamon sticks

8 whole allspice

Navel Orange Slices

Combine all ingredients in listed order to your crockpot (4 qt. or larger) and cook on low setting for about 4 hours or until heated to desired temperature. You may also cook it on high initially for an hour and reduce the heat to save time. This reheats well for 3 days.

Happy Wassailing Everyone!