If you've read my blog before, you know I'm not much of a cook. It's not that I can't do it, I just don't really enjoy it. I seem to lack that gene that can figure out how to throw together a can of this, a box of that, a few herbs and voila! dinner is made. Since my hubby LOVES to cook (in the same freakish, over the top way I love to craft) there has never been much of a reason for me to broaden my culinary horizons before.
Now that baby #4 is on the way and our evenings are getting busier, I'm finding that it's easier to (gasp) cook something fast myself instead of waiting for the hubs to come home.
So, I have challenged myself to find a few recipes that I can cook relatively quickly that won't make the whole family pray for take out. I'm starting small by broadening my crockpot recipes (I have had a request for recipes that do NOT use cream of anything soup - I can't say I disagree). I do hope though to add a few meals that don't involve the crockpot too.
For my first venture, I tried a Chicken in a Marsala Herb Sauce recipe from Stephanie Cooks. The original recipe is here.
I pretty much followed her recipe exactly, except I used 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts instead. At the end, the sauce was not as thick as I wanted it to be. So the real cook in the family showed me how to transfer the liquid to the stove top and thicken it to make a gravy.
It was a really good meal! I wish I would have taken a picture (note for future meals) because it even looked pretty (something I find hard to do with crockpot meals). Even my husband, who normally does not care for crockpot meals, liked this one.
I'm adding this recipe to my "can cook" list.
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