In an attempt to making dinners easier I am going to try to use the slow cooker more often.. perhaps even ONCE A WEEK. We'll see... Slow cookers are a bit hit or miss with me. Meats.. not so great, soups.. pretty good. I'm going to try and try again, to build up our recipe rotation.
#1 was actually "red cooked chicken" which was, good. I'll be trying it again. I'm hoping since you save the sauce to use and use again it will get better with time. I'll be adding more spice the next time, as well. Sort of poaches the chicken and the meat can be eaten straight or maybe used in another way.
#2 Taco Soup. Verdict.. Not bad.. not great. Makes a TON so we'll be eating it for a while. I froze half for later down the road. Maybe I'll make it again, with some changes. But then maybe it just becomes a chili? The thing that makes this "taco" soup is it uses Taco seasoning, which makes things sort of easy.. but then you are also at the mercy of whatever is in that taco seasoning. This recipe also uses a powdered Ranch dressing mix.. which gives it sort of that Dorito "cool ranch" sort of flavor.. which I can do without. It just all becomes a salty/fakey sort of taste. Hmmm... maybe this means I will not be making this again. Maybe I will make it again.. but use only the taco seasoning. Sigh... Maybe I'll just try something else.
I kind of liked the taco soup, but yes, I was confused why this would be different than chili. It's like the "Viva Ortega!" marketers wanted to make chili sound more exotic.
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