My latest recipe rave

I already told you about the cookbook that I love, so I thought I would quickly give you one of the recipes. Let me start out by saying that I used to be terrified of whole chickens..but not anymore!

Stick a whole chicken in your crock pot. You can add whatever you want inside: celery, garlic, onion, carrots..you know the drill. I just put a whole bunch of garlic cloves since I have one million of them (I love costco!) Anyway, don't put any liquid in. Cook it on high for 4 hours (I was skeptical, but it was done) then take the chicken out (I used tongs and a spatula...it was pretty difficult though becuase it was falling apart) and let it cool. Also at this point drain out the broth and stick it in your fridge. Scrape off the fat when it cools and then use it when you need chicken broth. Now pick the chicken apart. That's pretty much the hardest part, by the way. It takes about 15 minutes to do. Then you take the meat (you can use half or all of it depending on how many you are feeding) and throw it in a skillet. Add a can of black beans undrained, some garlic powder, cumin, salt and pepper and there you go. Heat it up and throw it into a tortilla with salsa, sour cream, cheese...whatever your heart desires. And serve it with Publix yellow rice, and you have the most insanely cheap and tasty meal on the planet!

Let me just say that I do not like dark meat and neither does Brian, but when you cook it in the crock pot it's so tender that it really doesn't matter. Also, when you add it into that recipe you really cannot taste it. I LOVE this recipe, and I am so impressed with how cost effective it is and how GOOD it is! If you buy the chickens from costco, it's a phenomenally better deal than if you buy a whole chicken from a regular grocery store, so you're cutting costs all over the place! So anyway. I will stop ranting now, but you have to try this. It's so easy!!