I almost burnt dinner. I almost cooked it to dinner death. I’d never made cacciatore before. It sounded very Italian and very difficult, but when I looked at the ingredients, I had everything but the chicken breasts and a few canned items. Well, hey! I can do this! I didn’t anticipate getting locked out of the house and overcooking the chicken. But I’ll let you read that in the end results.
Matt "the cheese lover's" plate.
Serves about 8. Cooks for 8 hours. Well, how about that?
What you’ll need:
4 chicken breasts
2 onions
3 garlic cloves
1 bay leaf
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. dried basil
2 tsp. dried oregano
2 15-oz. cans diced tomatoes
8 oz. can tomato sauce
4 oz. fresh mushrooms
How to Cook it:
1. Cut chicken into cubes.
2. Slice onions and mushrooms.
3. Mince garlic.
4. Place onions in first, and then all other ingredients.
5. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
Now, how easy is that?
End Result:
Considering we locked ourselves out of the house….well, this is what really happened. I didn’t start getting ready in time, and it always takes me longer than I think. We were due for a dinner date and Mr. Military hates being late. So, before I could grab my car keys, wallet and phone, he herded me out the door. Since we’d just moved in, and hadn’t had time to make a copy of the key…..our only house key lay on the sink. Along with my phone. The landlord’s number was only programmed in my phone.
We went on to dinner, expecting a mushy, chickeny mess when we did finally get back in, almost three hours later. But the chicken held out well. It was a little dry. The moral of the story is don’t lock yourself out of the house while making dinner, but if you do, and it’s in the crock pot, you’ll still come out okay. You can’t really do that with any other method of cooking. Crock pots rule. It is pretty much impossible to burn anything in the crock pot.
We served the chicken over a few left over whole wheat lasagna noodles from the spinach lasagna which will be my next post. The following night we ate it plain with a side of fresh sautéed mushrooms. Yeah, it isn’t my prettiest picture, but honey, it was filling, flavorful, and a different chicken dish from my plain ol’ bbq chicken in the oven. Not bad for overcooking!
In true Italian spirit, we ate it passionately.
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G.I. Crockpot 
What Jenn forget to tell you is that we were supposed to turn off the crock pot at 7:00. As we were rushing out the door to have dinner with my brother, SHE left her keys on the kitchen counter which had the only house key at the time. (Of course when she tells the story, it’s all my fault for rushing her!! I just need to get the truth out there! :-P) So we didn’t get back home with a key to open the door until around 9:00 to turn off what we anticipated was going to be burnt chicken cacciatore. But it was still very delicious and the aroma emanating from the crock pot caused me to start salivating as soon as we opened the door that had locked us out two hours earlier. As I’m typing this, she’s “fixing” her post to make it sound like it’s all my fault. But as Paul Harvey used to say…”Now you know the rest of the story!”
Honey, I love you so much. Thank you for reading my blogs, and commenting, and eating my food I cook and sometimes leave in the crock pot for three extra hours. And yes, we were at your brother’s for 3 hours. It takes 20 minutes just to get over there and we still had to stop by the landlord’s to get the key and remember, he invited us in? 3 hours. But I was in the wrong. I was the one who forgot the keys. It wasn’t your fault. I shouldn’t have put the blame on you and said you rushed me. That was childish. I took too long to get ready, period. I waited too long to start getting ready.You were right, I was wrong. You win.:)I love you.
We both win because we get to eat your mouth-watering food!!! 😀
I love you.
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