4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1 can each: cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, & cheddar cheese soup

1/2 packet of taco seasoning

We served it all up in some flour tortillas with refried beans and cheese. They were really tasty!

Ingredients:

• 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (frozen)
• 4-8 pre-cooked bacon strips, crumbled
• 1 cup fat-free sour cream
• 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
• 1 packet Hidden Valley ranch dip mix
• 1 heaping teaspoon minced garlic
• 1lb pasta (original recipe calls for rigatone, I didn’t have that, so I used rotini)

In a crock pot/slow cooker, mix sour cream, soup, ranch mix, bacon and garlic until combined. Place frozen chicken on top of this mixture. Cover the crock pot w/ lid, turn on high for ~4 hours, turning the chicken halfway through. When chicken is fully cooked, shred it and stir the shredded chicken into the sauce. Serve over pasta.

This was SO INSANELY GOOD. I really didn’t expect much, since I’m not a huge ranch person. But it was actually really good. The ranch flavor spreads out and ends up being pretty subtle, and the bacon adds a nice smokey flavor. This is going in our meal rotation for sure. :D (Sorry for the crappy photo. I took it on my phone because I was too hungry to mess with my camera. lol)

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Awesome Dad face, FTW.

We went to my aunt’s house for dinner and had amazing home made chicken and dumplings. Made by my mama, of course. It was definitely fun, but I was super tired. lol. I came home, edited these pictures, and then passed out of a few hours before Branden made dinner. (He made one of the only dinners he knows how- steak and potatoes.)

I hope all you mama’s had a great day!

And now we’re working assembly line style to get their cd cases stuffed for their upcoming show. It’s hard work! One person has to have a ruler and an Xacto knife and cut each tray insert and booklet out of the sheet it was printed on. Then someone else (it was me) has to fold the booklet in half. Then the tray insert gets to be put into the back of the case and then the tray snapped back in. Over and over again until all 100 of them are done. At least now there are more done than there are undone.

We’ve been here for so long today. I’m really ready to just go home… but the guys are now screwing around with editing some of the songs again to make them perfect for the EP. Which I can understand. If you’re going to sell a product, it needs to be perfect, or as perfect as it can be. Which is why there’s been all this fuss over the cd cases. And then deciding what’s gonna go on top of the discs themselves. (Currently they’ll all be painted white and then stamped with a black stamp.) I just hope it all gets done in time, since the show is next weekend.

At least I got to eat at my favorite restaurant today. :D We took Bam’s mom out for mothers day, and she picked La Casa, which is this awesome mexican restaurant here in town. We eat there at least twice a month. Sometimes we eat there every time we come to town for practice. lol. They have the best food. Today I finally got something other than my usual burrito. I got shrimp tacos. THEY WERE AMAZING. I’ve never had such good shrimp tacos. I think I have a new ‘usual.’ lol!

I think I’m going to go bug Bam to leave. It’s almost 2 and we’ve got an hour and a half drive home. Luckily I drove here, so I get to sit back and relax on the way home. It works out well, since I’m usually really tired on the way back. Especially today, since I was sleeping earlier. Meh.

xx