Crock Pot Love

I straight up LOVE the crock pot.  You put in a few ingredients, turn it on, and a few hours, presto!  Your dinner is ready!  My friend Erica had a really delicious "zesty slow cooker bbq chicken" sandwich at work the other night.  I had one taste and I was hooked.  The fact that the recipe has 5 total ingredients didn't hurt.

It was on the menu last night for dinner.  It calls for frozen chicken, bbq sauce, italian dressing, brown sugar, and worcestershire sauce.  So I got the chicken out of the freezer, took the plastic off, and just assumed that I would be able to plop it in the crock pot.  Let me give you a little bit of background:  I had worked the night before on very little sleep to begin with, and then I had literally just woken up from a roughly 4-hour sleep after work.  I take the plastic off the chicken and it is completely stuck and frozen to the styrofoam.  So I berate myself for thinking that it'd be that easy, and set it to the side to mix the other 4 ingredients, which took approximately 1.5 minutes.  I get the chicken to put it in the crock pot, still hopelessly frozen, but in my sleep-deprived mind it should have at least thawed a little bit.  So I start peeling off the styrofoam, and it's breaking off in small pieces in my hand.  And then it occurs to me that I can run the chicken under warm water and try to thaw it enough to get the styrofoam off.  To the sink I go, and after a few minutes of the warm water running over the chicken, the styrofoam is still just coming off in little chunks, and now I have to worry about that special paper that the chicken sits on.  It's getting all soggy and the different layers are coming off, some are sticking to the chicken, and it's just a mess!  So after several minutes, the styrofoam and paper is in shambles in the bottom of the sink.

And this is only about 1/3 of the styrofoam, and that little white lump is the chicken paper.  The chicken breasts were still stuck together, but it was a vast improvement and I threw it in the crock pot anyway.

This was after a few hours in the crock pot, and it is already looking yummy.  And ta-daaaa!  Our delicious zesty slow cooker bbq chicken sandwich!!  I was a big fan of this sandwich, and it was so easy to make!

I did not create this recipe whatsoever, but here's the link if you wanna try it!   http://allrecipes.com/recipe/zesty-slow-cooker-chicken-barbecue/

Mmm mmm good!