I experimented and it was really tasty!
Today was the 21st birthday of one of Jay's gaming friends, so she and her boyfriend came over and I pretended to know what I was doing in the kitchen, with really quite positive results!
1.5 cups store-brand hickory-flavoured BBQ sauce
.5 cup of white wine
Mix together in a bowl, set aside.
Thickly slice 3 medium-to-large onions, break up the rings a bit, and lay them in the bottom of a large crockpot. Mine is six or seven quarts, I forget exactly. Crush/chop about six garlic segments, dump in with onions. Chop up six stalks of celery; add to onions and garlic.
On top of garlic/onions/celery, fit as many chicken thighs as you can in your crockpot. I got nine in there.
Dump a small bag of peeled baby carrots on top of the chicken. Pour the BBQ sauce/wine mixture over everything. Pour half a cup of water over that, partially rinsing down the sauce.
Cook on high for four hours. At about the 3-hour mark, dig in and incorporate the chicken and carrots down into the onion mixture. Re-cover and let it cook for the last hour.
We didn't have any bread, but it would probably be really good with crusty sourdough bread or rolls, or maybe even buttermilk biscuits.
Next time, I think I'll add chunks of red-skinned potato (I didn't have any), plus some broccoli or cauliflower for texture (also yum!).
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Aside from that, I was home because I took a day off. I needed to be nice to myself, so I didn't start barking at callers. I came pretty close a couple of times Monday night, so it's good that I wasn't there tonight.
If I have enough on my credit card, I'm going to see The Hunger Games tomorrow.
1.5 cups store-brand hickory-flavoured BBQ sauce
.5 cup of white wine
Mix together in a bowl, set aside.
Thickly slice 3 medium-to-large onions, break up the rings a bit, and lay them in the bottom of a large crockpot. Mine is six or seven quarts, I forget exactly. Crush/chop about six garlic segments, dump in with onions. Chop up six stalks of celery; add to onions and garlic.
On top of garlic/onions/celery, fit as many chicken thighs as you can in your crockpot. I got nine in there.
Dump a small bag of peeled baby carrots on top of the chicken. Pour the BBQ sauce/wine mixture over everything. Pour half a cup of water over that, partially rinsing down the sauce.
Cook on high for four hours. At about the 3-hour mark, dig in and incorporate the chicken and carrots down into the onion mixture. Re-cover and let it cook for the last hour.
We didn't have any bread, but it would probably be really good with crusty sourdough bread or rolls, or maybe even buttermilk biscuits.
Next time, I think I'll add chunks of red-skinned potato (I didn't have any), plus some broccoli or cauliflower for texture (also yum!).
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Aside from that, I was home because I took a day off. I needed to be nice to myself, so I didn't start barking at callers. I came pretty close a couple of times Monday night, so it's good that I wasn't there tonight.
If I have enough on my credit card, I'm going to see The Hunger Games tomorrow.