Chicken Stroganoff - slow cooker freezer meal

We make 3 bags for each of us, totaling 6.  so we just multiply.  I would suggest you make at least 3 bags for yourself if you want a quick and easy meal that will last for about two days of meals each.

Love my slow cooker!

This can also be adapted to the instant pot.   I love that too. 

This is for one recipe that we get about 4 generous servings from.   but by cutting up those breasts you could easily get 5 - 6 servings if you have kids.  There is a lot of sauce too, which I like for the noodles.

4 chicken breasts
8 oz sliced mushrooms
1 8 oz cream cheese softened
1 10.5 oz can cream of chicken soup
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
salt and pepper to taste
parsley for garnish
egg noodles for serving

1. place chicken in bottom of lightly greased slow cooker.  Add mushrooms.  In a medium sized bowl ad cream cheese, chicken soup and dry onion soup mix.  Mix until incorporated and spread on top of chicken and mushrooms

2.  cook on low for 4-6 hours or high for 3-4 hours.  serve over noodles and top with fresh parsley.

OK, so what we did was to mix the stuff they said to mix together.  Chop up the chicken into huge chunks and mix that in too,  Then stick it all in a freezer bag (already labeled, we learned that the hard way last time).  We also used only 3 breasts in each because we ended up a whole pack short.  Not sure how that happened. 

I dumped this one in totally frozen this morning.  By about 2 it was totally done.  I  put it in the fridge until supper.  Carrie wants to try beef chunks next time.  Maybe like stew meat or a chuck roast cut up in chunks.  But the chicken was good with that white sauce.

And anything with cream cheese is perfect in my book!

Let me know if you make it.

Small Things With Huge Impacts

Today I received a bit of love.  Christa is a quilter who has played with me on the Cotton Robin.  In fact we are connected because she was the one who finished my amazing Cotton Robin quilt this year.

She sent me a slow cooker.  It was a simple, but heartfelt gesture of incredible kindness.  And it was exactly what I needed.

Tomorrow the work crew is coming to put up some dry wall boards in the garage.  It is a single garage attached to the carport.  In Baton Rouge we call that a Boat Port for some reason.

When we get this finished, hopefully by noon or so, we will move the few remaining pieces of furniture out of the Big House into the boat port so they can start on the dry wall in there.  And we will create a small living space that will serve as kitchen/storage/slow cooker space.

The flexibility this space will give us will be enormous.  It will literally triple or maybe even quadruple our living space.  He says I can cover his workbench with a table cloth!  LOL.  That ought to be picture worthy.

He had tools like I had quilting supplies.  We used to do a lot of woodwork and we had saws, routers and drills and sanders galore.  All of which had motors below the water line.  So to see that space cleared out and empty hurts a lot.

But.......I think it will serve us well.  With a table cloth and a slow cooker we can begin to make meals that will fill us with more than just food.

Thank you Christa, you have no idea what your small gesture of love means to me right now.

Darn it, I am crying again!