Last Fall, a friend of mine and I went to my town's annual Fall Festival - Heritage Days. Thousands of people descend on our little town...really....thousands. But it really is an incredible festival, lots of old timey things, crafts, etc.
As we were perusing the booths we came upon a packaged soup booth...they had samples.
One of their best sellers is a Cheesy Chicken Soup mix, all the seasonings are in the package along with some rice. Just add chicken (which the lady told me she uses canned chicken) and Velveeta and follow the directions and you are golden. I bought a package...it was amazing! James raved about it and I have made it several times since. On the package is their website so I ordered more online, they also have dips and other things. I've made the Chicken Enchilada Soup as well, it was spicy but good. Christian and I liked it with tortilla chips. I brought the Cheesy Chicken Soup to a church dinner, we had none to bring home. It really is that good. Here's a link to Peculiar Spice Co, check them out.
My family knows that once in a while I want to experiment with a "new" meal. I am an o..k.. cook, I make the usual normal things like spaghetti, tacos, etc and a few things my family loves like enchiladas, pork chops, roast....and well, you know what I mean ;)
But then I want to "try" something and it usually ends up a disaster or very odd. I may have blogged about it before but a couple years ago I tried to make sweet and sour chicken. Everything was going fine and then I did something out of order and we ended up having sweet and sweet chicken. My family ate it anyway but it wasn't what it was supposed to be. The one they all think of is the quiche I tried to make them eat...way too much spinach, they hated it. I didn't even like it that much and that's saying something.
I finally have a victory to share! Last week I was looking for a pulled pork recipe that I could make in the crock pot. I found this one online, tried it almost exactly like the recipe and my family raved about it. It was really delicious, better than restaurant quality. Here's the receipe below.
Ingredients:
-(2 pound) pork tenderloin
Place the pork tenderloin in a slow cooker; pour the root beer over the meat. Cover and cook on low until well cooked and the pork shreds easily, 6 to 7 hours. Note: the actual length of time may vary according to individual slow cooker. Drain well. Stir in barbecue sauce. Serve over hamburger buns.
My variations were: I cooked it for about 8 hours, poured Sweet Baby Ray's Hickory and Brown Sugar BBQ sauce over it and then cooked it for another hour. And I didn't toast my buns ;)
Wish I had taken a picture, I also made homemade cole slaw to go with it. My mother-in-law's recipe. And yes, it was fine.
I just found this pic on the internet....hmmmm, very interesting.
