Ummm, Ummm, Good Chicken

TheHub has an aversion to chicken, which I think it the most versatile protein out there. He always complains that we have chicken nearly every night, which is so untrue. I will admit in our early marriage we ate chicken all the time, because it was all we could afford, and he might have gone through chicken overload at the time. I will also admit I usually served it baked with rice and green beans. (Again it was an affordability issue)  You have to understand though, now he is close to retirement age and our kids are all grown and we are grandparents. I think we can all agree a boatload of time and cooking experience has passed since those truly lean years.

He calls me every day shortly after he eats lunch to find out what his dinner will be. I rarely know because I am not home a lot the time and don't start thinking about how I will prepare dinner until I physically walk into the kitchen. I can only tell him what I took out of the freezer to thaw. Yesterday I told him I had thawed chicken for dinner and you could hear crickets on the phone because he had eaten a Chik Fil A sandwich earlier in the week at lunchtime.  I am pretty sure I made some smart ass comment like "Yeah you will survive 2 chicken meals in the same week.". Or maybe I just said "Oh no!" and scurried like an obedient wife to make something more to his pleasing. You decide!

I can't find the blog where I found this recipe and I am so sorry. I even went back through my computers history. I would like to give you credit for this but there were just too many sites visited to search through. If I find it eventually I will link to it here, because this was in no way, shape, or form my original creation.

Really Delicious Easy Crockpot Chicken

4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar (divide into 2 1/4 cups)
5 boneless skinless chicken thighs
2 teaspoons dried basil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper

Put the oil in the bottom of a crockpot then sprinkle the minced garlic on top of it. Slowly add 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar. Turn the crock onto high.
Mix all the seasonings together and pour onto a small plate (Yeah, I used a saucer) Press both sides of  each chicken piece into the seasonings mix, to mostly cover it.  Place the chicken into the crockpot, drizzle the remaining vinegar around it, cover the pot and let it cook for about 3 hours. (I turned  mine to low after than and let it cook another 30 or so minutes )

I served TheHubs over brown rice and spooned some of the juices on the rice. All I can say is he was amazed at how good it tasted, went back for seconds and then had a little bit more. Yeah, he does this every single time I cook chicken because I know it is not his favorite so I always make sure it is flavorful. I don't think he will ever learn to trust me.