Slow cooker chicken fajitas

First off, here is what you need:

Frozen chicken breast, onion, bell peppers (green & red), salsa, tortillas, various toppings such as lettuce, guacamole and sour cream.

Here is what I started off with. The salsa was homemade, of course! :)

Slice the bell pepper, chop up just enough onion to fill 1/2 cup and slice the rest up.

Place the chicken breast into the crock pot and add all of the other ingredients on top of that.

Cook on high heat for 5-6 hours. Stir every once in a while. 

After everything finished cooking, I shredded the chicken and placed it back into the slow cooker and set it on warm. Serve in tortillas with toppings of your choice.

Crock pot French dip sandwiches

To start off our crockpot challenge, we decided to make some French dip sandwiches. We picked up a nice sized rump roast, 2 cans of beef consommé, and a package of sub rolls.

Here are the main ingredients (pictures above)

To start off, we placed the roast into the crock pot.

We then poured the beef consommé in, making sure to splash some onto the beef itself. And that was it! As simple as that :)

We set the crock pot for 6 1/2 hours and did some housework while dinner slowly cooked. I had it set on high, but you can also cook it at low for 8-10 hours.

After the roast finished cooking, I took it out of the slow cooker, trimmed off the fat and shredded the meat. I added the meat back into the pan and set it to warm for a half hour, I love how the juices soaked into the meat, making it more flavorful! You don't have to do that part, it is completely optional. You can just remove the meat form the cooker, shred it with a fork and set it aside. Don't forget to spoon our some juice for dipping ;)

The final product! It was delicious! :) 

The recipe:

Ingredients:

A 2-3 pound rump roast

2 (14.5 ounce) cans of beef consommé

4-6 hoagie rolls, toasted.

Place the roast is a greased slow cooker (3 1/2- 5 quart). Pour the consommé over the top. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or on high for 5-7 hours. Remove roast and shred with a fork. Save the extra juice for dipping. With the pulled beef, add it to a toasted or I toasted hoagie (I toasted ours) and enjoy! Don't forget to put the juice on the side for dipping.

Fresh tomatoes

We recently harvested out garden and got a large quantity of Roma tomatoes. 

 Here are our tomatoes, washed and ready to go. What did we do with them, you might ask?

Two and a half quarts of diced and canned tomatoes and another three and a half quarts of pasta sauce. We will post recipes soon! ;)

First garden harvest

 We had a few red tomatoes turn faster than the others. Just a few though, some Roma tomatoes and some cherry ones.

We had some green peppers, cucumbers and jalapeños.

Here are some of he green bell peppers and cucumbers before we washed them.

Into the sink (and strainer) they go!

Our little harvest :)

We dried everything off and I packed he tomatoes and jalapeños in an old strawberry container and stuck them in the fridge for later! Can you say, salsa? ;)