Balsamic Chicken Thighs

For our anniversary we usually we go out to eat somewhere nice.  But I felt like doing the cooking myself this year so I hit Charlie's for some bacon wrapped fillets.

For the millionth time, I love you Charlie's

We had steak, crab cakes, steamed veggies, and - Hub's fave - mac & cheese.  (I also added some tomatoes and roasted okra to really cram my own plate full.)  Turned out mighty fine, if I do say so myself.  Four years of mawwiage celebrated the way you should!  A steak dinner followed by pjs and pups.

But enough of giving you the meat-envy.  Let's skip back a day or so...

On Tuesdays, I take a Pilates class at my gym so I don't get home until almost 8pm.  The heck if I'm cooking then.  I guess I could pick something up or microwave something quick.  But I like a hot meal that I know is healthy.  Defeats the purpose of the gym if I eat bad-like once I get home, ya know?

So what do you do?  If you said eat a salad, the answer is no.  Once again we go with our good friend, the slow cooker.  Using a recipe found on our other good friend, Pinterest.

I made the recipe pretty close to the original recipe from Sugar-Free Mom.  Well, sorta.  I added extra garlic.  (Like always.)  And threw in some white onion, mushrooms, and carrots.  Cut a few things and added chicken broth to cover the extra veggies.  (I don't loooove that much balsamic vinegar.)

Like a big ole mess of yum

The flavor was nice!  It was fine as is but we're spice folks so the Hubs and I both added a little Sriracha.  (Do you know how Sriracha came about?  Interesting read here.)  Hubs ate his over some brown rice.  And I've got 2 days of lunches.  A cheap, easy recipe that tastes good and will cover several meals?  Yes, please.

Slow Cooker Balsamic Chicken Thighs

INGREDIENTS

• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
• White onion, thick chopped
• 1 container white mushrooms, thick cut
• Small package of carrots

DIRECTIONS

1. Dump everything in slow cooker
2. Cook on low 6 hours.

~ Sriracha to taste.