Crock Pot Dinner AND Dessert!

 It has been a while since I have updated this blog. Although I have made other new recipes... I have just been lazy and not blogged them. In the same breath I am NO where near my year goal of 100 new recipes tried. There is always next year though!

 Recently my mom gave me a crock pot that is 2 crocks in one. The bowl is oval and separated in half. Super cool. I have recently found that you can make SO many desserts in the crock pot, as well as dinners, and in this crock pot you can do BOTH!

 Tonight's dinner was:

 Crock Pot Chicken Pot Pie

 Ingredients: 
 1/2 cup dry white wine
 2 TBS flour
 4 Medium carrots cut into 1 inch peices
 1 onion, chopped
 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs cut into 2 inch peices
 1 sheet of frozen puff pastry sheets- cut into 8 rectangles
 1 egg, beaten
 1 cup frozen peas
 3TBS fresh dill sprigs

 1. In your slow cooker whisk together the wine, flour, 1/2 cup water and salt and pepper.
 2. Add the carrots, celery, onion and the chicken and toss to combine. cook, covered until chicken easily falls apart and is cooked through 6-7 hours on low, 4-5 hours on high.
 3. when the chicken has 30 min left to cook heat oven to 400 and place pastry on well greased cookie sheet. Brush them with egg and bake until puffed, and golden brown (20-25 min)
 4. Gently fold the peas and dill into the chicken and vegetables and cook, covered, until heated through, about 3 min. Spoon into bowls and sprinkle with additional dill if desired. Top with puff pastry.

I did not use the fresh dill. Did not have any. Other than that I followed the recipe to the letter. It was good, but I think the dill would have given it a little something more. Garlic would have been nice, and next time, I will add some for sure. Other than that nice and fast. Something easy to do with left over chicken too, could cook much faster if chicken and veggies were already cooked. The kids loved the puffed pastry.

Dessert was:

 Pumpkin Pudding in the Crock Pot

 Ingredients:

 1 can of pumpkin 
 12oz evaporated milk
 3/4 cup sugar
 1/2 cup bis mix (I used almost a 1/2 cup flour and about 1/2 tsp baking powder and a touch of salt)
 2 eggs beaten
 2 TBS butter melted
 2 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (I used cin. nutmeg and cloves)
 2 tsp vanilla 

 This is simple. Add everything together in a bowl Mix well. Put into oiled crock pot and cook on low for 6 hours (I did mine on high for 3 hours)

 this was super good. We had it warm with our meal. It tastes like pumpkin pie! It would have been good cold with some cool whip, of course.

Together this made a super simple, and pretty cost effective meal. I will be making both again and I will certainly be trying other puddings out in the crock pot!