{"id":3405,"date":"2012-10-05T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:30:42","slug":"yummy-stuff-annies-crockpot-chicken-chili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Stuff: Annie&#8217;s Crockpot Chicken Chili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8454\/8045589970_5533d57c6c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s sister-in-law Annie is an amazing cook. She&#8217;s the type of person who never follows a recipe; rather, she uses a recipe as a\u00a0<em>guide\u00a0<\/em>but changes nine different things and always seems to make it better. Truly an inspiration in the kitchen, she has encouraged me to step outside my comfort zone and get creative with meals. Earlier this week, she shot me an email outlining a dinner she recently hosted that involved crock pot chicken chili with white beans. And, as she knew I would, I begged her for the recipe.<\/p>\n<p>And basically, here it is. I made it on Monday and we ate it all week long, quite happily!<\/p>\n<p><em>***Be warned: this makes a whole lot of chili, so feel free to halve the recipe if you are only feeding a couple of people!***<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two packages boneless skinless chicken thighs<\/li>\n<li>2 cans cannellini or other white beans, drained and rinsed<\/li>\n<li>1 large sweet onion, chopped<\/li>\n<li>5 cloves garlic, smashed<\/li>\n<li>1 cup chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of your favorite salsa (homemade or store-bought, as spicy or mild as you like!)<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp cumin<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp sea salt<\/li>\n<li>1 bay leaf<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 2 jalape\u00f1o peppers, sliced<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups frozen (or fresh) corn kernels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>For garnish<\/strong> (use any of the following, or all!)<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>1 avocado, diced<\/li>\n<li>grated sharp cheddar cheese<\/li>\n<li>sliced lime<\/li>\n<li>chopped cilantro<\/li>\n<li>sour cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Toss all of the ingredients (excluding the garnishes, of course) into a crock pot and cook on low all day, or until the chicken shreds easily. Take a fork and shred chicken before serving in bowls. Squeeze a lime on top, then top with shredded cheese, followed by avocado, a dollop of sour cream, and finally, cilantro. We served ours with a corn muffin and I think Andrew ate three bowls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8177\/8045590202_4a7f385bb9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0309\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Our bellies thank you, Annie!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have quite a chilly weekend in store, how about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew&#8217;s sister-in-law Annie is an amazing cook. She&#8217;s the type of person who never follows a recipe; rather, she uses a recipe as a\u00a0guide\u00a0but changes nine different things and always seems to make it better. Truly an inspiration in the kitchen, she has encouraged me to step outside my comfort zone and get creative with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yummy Stuff: Annie&#8217;s Crockpot Chicken Chili&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[103,171],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-recipes","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12389,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/12389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}